Blog 10

The relationship between the two brothers starts off strong but then starts to diminish throughout the running of the restaurant. Their attitudes change throughout the movie because one brother wanted to keep the traditional Italian style meals while the other wants to adapt to the American culture. Keeping the Italian way is having large meals before the actual meal comes to your table. It also occurred when a customer wanted spaghetti and meatballs but the meatballs would be charged separately. The other brother wanted to adapt to the American way by saying the customer is always right and that they have to adapt not the people.

blog 9

On Sunday we celebrate Easter to celebrate Jesus rising from the dead. This year we have to improvise on the celebration because of quarantine. My family and I still ate what would have normally at easter but not with our family surrounding us. We had T-bone steaks and baked potatoes and just cracked jokes or discussed what was going on in the world. Catholic soul food and African-American soul food are common in different ways. Both of them celebrate dinner with the family and they are traditions of which food we eat. All the foods cooked are home made and are made from people who have experience cooking the food. This is demonstrated in the films.  Balthrope says "One the established chef and the other aspiring chef, they gain satisfaction from cooking Latino dishes for loved ones." This relates to catholics because we are taught to help and love everyone. My dad always takes pride in cooking for everyone, he always makes sure everyone gets fed and if theirs extra he invites the neighbors over to have some food this way they can be apart of the celebration. My brother and some of my cousins stand next to the grill when my dad is cooking this way they can see how the food comes out and what makes it so good. In the films food is what brings the families together even through hardships. Food is what is keeping everyone together through these days. Soul food is the only thing keeping it glued together.

Blog 8

The two movies Eat Drink Man Woman and Tortilla soup both enforce a rule that the family sits down to eat dinner together every Sunday. Eat Drink Man is a Chinese film and Tortilla soup is based on a Latino family. Both films have a similar opening sequence showing the fathers of the families cooking food for Sunday dinner than the rest of the family members going about their lives.  The ending of the movies show the daughters being pregnant and one of them deciding not to go abroad. In tortilla soup you can't tell where the film is located right away but in Eat Drink Man Woman you can tell it takes place in a Chinese theme right away. In both films the daughters move in with their boyfriends and both the middle children decide to quit their jobs to open up a restaurant. The oldest daughters of the families both find love with coworkers of theirs. The main differences in the films is the food they cook. In Tortilla soup they grill the food they cook unlike in Eat Drink Man Woman where they fry and steam the food. The films are really similar and the storyline is the same in both films. The only difference between the films is the locations in which they take place and the characters.