Nicole Chanchalashvili

Setting a Fine Table- Writing the Essay II

Scott Korb

2/26/17

Immovable Feast
 Chang-rae Lee’s essay “Immovable Feast” shows the reader how we can experience different things. Lee has tried to combine different foods together but then has not seemed to enjoy them. He tried to make Baked-haddock squares and chipped beef toast but then mentioned how it was considered as “shit on a shingle”. Meaning that it wasn’t a good combination. In my experience of cooking my own food, sometimes it could be good or bad. There was this one time that I cooked my whole family a pasta dish. It was a penne ala vodka. Surprisingly, it turned out to be good. Another time I baked cookies for my family and they turned out to be very hard to chew on which turned out to be a failure since I put them in the oven for too long. But, trying something new such as cooking for myself showed me how it’s always good to try a new experience and gain a new hobby.  Like Lee, I can relate to him since he has tried something new by making himself his own food but he didn’t expect the way he want it to turn out to be. Lee and I both face the same experiences when it comes to trying something new. Lee mentions how he prefers to have the fewer choices to an abundance of them since he had the time to try a new dish to cook for himself but he didn’t appreciate what he had made. When I want to make something for myself to eat, the meals that I’ve made could turn out to be good or bad but I’m still trying my best to make that perfect meal. Lee is trying to say to the reader how it’s always a good idea to try something new because you can end up adding it as your daily list since you enjoy this new hobby you gain just from trying something new.