Persuasive Essay About Harvest Thanksgiving

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FOOD & DRINK

Being on a par with procreation in terms of survival, food is often misconstrued as something to be liked or disliked.

As we are now approaching Thanksgiving, for one weekend, it has become a time to be thankful for just about everything, at least for people who are not consumed with football or other things unrelated to the spirit of the occasion.

Harvest Thanksgiving, celebrated in most English protestant churches on different Sundays so that churchgoers can visit other parishes to celebrate the successful harvest. To non-churchgoers, it is non-existent. The country in which we live gives us much to be thankful for, but because nutritional so called experts insist on telling us what is good for us and what is not, food doesn’t taste the same, especially since they are not content to inform us, but they have convinced us to cook things in healthy way. …show more content…

So I asked myself, many times, always when I’m eating. I have often said, “Give Me A Good Cook Over A Good Chef.” I don’t mean to say that a chef is not a good cook, rather, that a chef tends to concentrate on presentation. I don’t care much what it looks like, as it all ends up in the same place anyway.

When eating a meal, favorite food depends on several things. Time of day, ambience, appetite, convenience, etc.

We are often told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I personally never eat breakfast in the traditional sense, but like everyone else, sooner or later, usually between eleven thirty and 2PM, I break my fast. In the morning I am content to drink coffee, smoke my pipe and read my newspaper, with no thought of food. This is merely a habit, as I’m addicted to neither tobacco nor caffeine. In fact I rarely drink all of the coffee.

As is obvious, food and drink go together like peaches and cream, or like pork and apple sauce. Not to me, I like both pork and apple sauce, but not