Reconsideration

So i have narrowed down my topic and decided not to go twith the us and them approach. So i want to look and american junk food/snacks. the most popular and not so popular kind. and then talk about design and packaging, if it attracts people more, if it turns people away, etc..

so far

in these first three i am seeing how color works, if i should just used text or incorporate images as well. i was thinking of having an icon relating to each food on the page, as seen in the drunken shrimp. as weird as some of the foods may be i was thinking maybe to add humor to something that maybe gross to someone else. not sure bout that though. will be posting more.

Starting to Play

starting to fool around. seeing if i like texture, or just color, or a combo. more to come.

Researching

So I have been doing research on my thesis. I am not sure how I am going to make my book yet, meaning which direction I want to go. But right now I am trying to narrow down the countries that I want to select. I am looking over most of the cultural foods and trying to get the most interesting and bizarre foods. From what I am seeing is quite amazing to me. I found this one book that was great :

Strange Foods: bush meat, bats, and butterflies, an epicurean adventure around the world.
By Jerry Hopkins

The book talks about the authors journey around the world while trying a wide range of food. while showing pictures of a lot of the food.

So now its researching why that's the chosen food of the region. I also have a book about the history of food.

I am still in the researching phase and trying to narrow things down.

Will post more info when I come across it.

Thesis Proposal

My thesis topic is to explore the relationship between food and culture. The intention is to examine foods that are unique to other cultures and the motivation behind why those foods are popular within that culture. My purpose is while we often dismiss countries food to be different or extreme, we don't examine as to why. Some factors that are not considered are social values, geography, religion, and economic circumstances. My process will be based off research of a select handful of countries that have a very different culture.