Week 6 Dialogue; Coming Home Again

The importance of food in this essay is the beautiful memory his mother left Chang-Rae-Lee. I read Chang-Rae-Lees's memoir of his mother, the time they spent together in the kitchen preparing food for the family meal, and thought, how respectful and warm this memory of his mother is.
Food was very important, but, more than that was what it represented for Chang. He gives the reader this descriptive narration of watching his mother prepare food and describes her hands and how they move when cutting the meat from the bone and the chit chat that goes on between mother and son. This was revealing of what he felt for her and how he wanted his reader to visualize her in real life as he did. The surprise was the basketball scene where she made shot after shot. Chang's mother amazed him in many ways other than food.
Food is central and cultural for many families, it brings them together at the end of the day so they can center themselves as a unit again after all the days twists and turns. Food conjurs up fond memories of good times and also gives us a history.
Chang's mother gave him more than the ability to create food, she gave him part of her that lives on within him.