Cooking Up a Story

HEALTHY EATINGS, HAPPY LIFE! 

My yummy traditional Breast Chicken Dish, Post training Meal! 

Ingredients 

1. One tray of boneless skinless Chicken breasts 

2. Two sweet potatoes (Yams)

3. One small, almost ready Avocado

3. 1/4 teaspoon White onion (optional)

4. 2 tablespoon of freshly sliced Cilantro

5. 1/2 teaspoon of Mimi Dash

6. 1/2 teaspoon of Garlic Powder

7. 1 tablespoon of Ground pepper  

8. 1/4 teaspoon of Oregano

9. 1/4 teaspoon of Sea Salt 

10. Trader Joe's Coconut Cooking Oil Spray

11. One Lemon 

12. Aluminum Foil 

13. cookie oven tray 

Directions for Chicken Breast

1. Run water through Chicken breast and then apply squeezed Lemon over each side. 

2. Let Lemon sit for about 3 minutes

3. Rinse out Chicken through water

4. apply just a small spray on each side of chicken breast 

5. carefully apply all the condiments in measurements as shown in the Ingredient list on each side of chicken breast

6.  When finished applying condiments add the 2 table spoon of freshly sliced Cilantro to chicken breast

7. Pre heat a grill of grill pan over high heat for about 3 minutes

8. Spray Pan completely but quickly with just one spray 

9. Grill chicken breasts for about 4 to 5 minutes on each side or until thoroughly cooked, meat will get a light brownish coat.

10. Remove from grill and place next to sweet potatoes and avocado!  

Directions for Sweet Potatoes (Yams)

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees

2. place aluminum foil over cookie tray

3. Scrub sweet potato under running water, dry well with paper towel, this prevents it from steaming rather than properly baking

4. Poke all over with fork

5. wrap sweet potatoes in Aluminum foil 

6. Place wrapped sweet potatoes on cookie sheet, and put in oven for 30 minutes

7. After the 30 mins, open up aluminum cool, and let it bake for another  10 minutes if they are smaller (shorter than your palm) if not then another 20 

8. Remove and scrape off any blackened crusts from the leaking juices

9. Let them cool a bit then cut into portions or in half

Finished Masterpiece...

Story behind this Dish:

I am a personal trainer for about a year now and meal prepping is what I do just so I wont get tempted to eat what I am not suppose to. People think that eating healthy just consists of salads and nasty boring food but it certainly does not! Making this with other sides is something I look forward to and it tastes so good. The preparation does not take hours to do you just have to be patient on how you order everything and make sure you have all the ingredients. The preparation translates and symbolizes dedication, focus, and  determine equaling to someone sitting at my table. Preparing and eating this meal- the people who will be sitting at my table will be fitness enthusiasts, trainers, or someone just trying to change their life into a healthier lifestyle!

HW# 6

1. How does Yves Klein’s blue cocktail relate to the metaphoric nature of food to transmit ideas?

Yves blue cocktail relates to the metaphoric part of food because as explained in the earlier slides, although food is something that contains of ingredients that can not be so appealing to the eye you are taking it all into your body. Yves took it all in, changed "cell by cell" as stated in the slides and because of this he peed blue for days, showing the metaphoric nature of food.

2. What does Andy Warhol's Campell's Soup piece say about post-WWII America's relationship to food?

I believe Andy Warhol's piece say that post- WWII America's relationship to food became disconnected from the pleasure of cooking. Found a fast way of eating, this peice shows a variety of different flavor Campell Soup. Although it is soup, people still have many options to choose from.

3. What do you think about the Bread & Puppet theater idea that baking your own bread is a political act?

I strongly agree with the Bread & puppet theater idea, baking and making your own foods is something that should be enforced. It can help and prevent many things in the world today. If your disconnected from food then you are not entirely free, food makes you work harder and be a little bit more curious and interested in what you are actually taking in.

4. Compare Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" to Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper".

Dinner Party and the Last supper are in a way similar, not only the point of a supper table and having people sit together. I believe the most important similarity between the two works is having communication of who is there and why. Having everyone all in one place there is a reason for that, the last super had Christ and his 12 disciples the most important people in his circle and in The Dinner Party, important women were to be seated at the lengthy table.

5. Describe how  Rirkrit Tiravanija's, Theaster Gates', or Michael Rackowitz's projects take advantage of the social aspect of meal-sharing to generate ideas and discussions. 

The importance of meal sharing really is shown in Rikrit, Theaster's and Michael's work being that they all have the same task and goal at mind. The goal they are trying to persuade and get to the viewers is that they all in the end of all the confrontation, and problems they all have something in common and thats food. The value of eating together, getting the food together it plays a role. For examplem the way Michael takes advantage of the social aspect of meal sharing to generate ideas and discussioins is by forming this business while the US went to war with Iraq. During this time is was great to get people together to make them know that they too are people. They too are fighting to get by in this life. 

Class #5 FollowUp/ HW

     13 categories of content for this art object "Map of The World" Alighiero Boetti

1. This Art is representational in the form of showing the world atlas as their own individual flags from each country. Something that people do not really know or sometimes not even think about. 
2. the title "Map of the World" lets the public know that this is not just going to focus on one place is going to be multiple places. Multiple flags, the world to be exact. 
3. genre will be the differences in flags. 
4. Using Fabric, I thought really brought even more of a uniqueness to the art work, at first your eyes deceive you thinking is work on canvas, but it really is colored fabric all over the peice.
5. Its a very big piece of art on purpose, so it can all be seen. All the flags and all the locations. 
6. I am not really sure on the temporal duration of the artwork. 
7. context of the work is the letters around the frame of the artwork. 
8. Art history, this artwork will have to be a very cultural time. 
10. Not really sure on the iconographic tradition of this artwork 
11. the formal properties of the work will be the frame of it. 
12. there is no attitudinal gestures to this artwork. 
13. the physiological response is a very positive one, your impressed that someone did the world atlas, not only of the world but of each individual flag into the country. Really a positive response, mind blowing in a way. 



Janine Antoni Video 
a. Describe the process of Antoni's rope-making piece, Moor (2001), that is discussed at length in the video. What is this piece about?
The rope making piece is describing the things in her life that is connected all in one. Each color and piece of work means something in the rope. Some of her friends put their own kind of rope in each. The pieces of rope have different sections as well, for example she has a section of "grandmothers."

b. The process of rope-tying that she learned is very different from the process of action painting.How is this method particularly appropriate to the meaning that she wants to get across?
The meaning she wants to get across is the method of how the object actually got there, how sometimes we forget how the objects feel or comes about. So she wanted to break apart the rope and slowly bring it all back together. 

c. Do you think a person completely ignorant of Antoni's work, someone with no verbal information to assist them, would understand the meaning of Moor ? What would they get? What would they miss?
Someone with no verbal information on Antoni's "Moor" art piece would no get this work. To anyone it is just rope, and color. But it is deeper than that, I think someone would miss the actual rope being different colors in different places, how thick or thin it is as well. I think one thing they would get is that each color represents something different in the art work, the person would not necessarily know the exact meaning but will be able to depict there is a difference.   


Think about skills that you know, that are important to your family, your traditions, or that you pride yourself in knowing. Describe in a paragraph-long blog post how you would adapt one of those skills to make an artwork that communicates something important about you, your family, your culture, or some important knowledge about yourself.
Something that is really important in my family is music. Music brings us all together, one of the many things we can always talk about or tune into when we're doing something as a family. Family reunions is something big for us to play music. I myself played the cornet/ Trumpet for 3 years, music is a part of my life. If i were to make a piece of Art work, I believe I would make a sculpture of different pieces of instruments, in an upside down pyramid. The reason why I would choose for it to me that way is to represent life, my life in a way. You don't always start off with everything at hand, things slowly come to you as you get older. I would use trumpets, saxophone, microphones, drums, flutes, drumsticks, triangle, violin, keyboard, piano keys etc.