Nicole Chanchalashvili

Setting a Fine Table-Writing the Essay II

Scott Korb

4/25/17

Bar Car Prophesy
In Rosie Schaap’s podcast Bar Car Prophesy shows us that she wanted to belong somewhere. Every time when she would commute from Connecticut to New York City, she would be on the bar car.  She was the only teenager that would go into the bar car but she wanted to find somewhere that she could belong to. As she would view upon how various types of people would be in their own certain niche. Schaap felt like she was missing something. She wanted to be part of adulthood. At the end of the podcast, she mentions that she didn’t belong into adulthood as she was passing beers to the people on the train she then realized that she didn’t belong there. As she was trying to find her own niche, this reminds me of how since I commute from Long Island to Manhattan everyday for school, I always try to find my own niche. Everyday when I enter school, I always hope that I could find my own niche to be with but I find it difficult to find that right group. When I try to find a niche that I want to be part of, I have this feeling that I have no right to belong to it.  Although I don’t feel as welcomed sometimes, I still have my hopes up that I will find my own group that I could for once fit in. Both Schaap and I both have our similarities when it comes to finding somewhere to fit in. Even though that we still don’t feel welcomed from a niche to find, their could always be some kind of niche that we can find. Sometimes when we are trying to find a niche that we want to belong in, there could be times that we won’t get that warm welcome we want. There will be a time that we’ll have that welcomed feeling what we want since we’ve found the group that we wanted to be part of. 

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.  

Nicole Chanchalashvili

Writing the Essay II

Scott Korb

2/6/17

What Is a Meal?

What does a meal mean to me? Well, actually it means two things. The first thing is how when I come home for dinner I have a meal with my whole family. We do not eat our meal until the whole family is at the table. In my Georgian culture, all of our meals that we eat are with the family, the food that we have brings the family together. The food that we have are very traditional Georgian dishes such as this cheese bread called Khachapuri. Everytime when I eat Khachapuri, I feel nostalgic. Since this is a traditional dish, I feel like a little kid again. As my family and I come together for dinner, we wait for the food to come on the table. Once the food is on the table we then start to communicate with one another. We use food to communicate. When the food is on the table a conversation begins. Food is a huge gathering for my family. Another meaning of what food means to me is how it can indicate change. Since I’m a college student, I’m independent and, my parents aren’t on top of me. I could do whatever I want and eat whatever I want. I go out all the time. When I go out to eat, I will order mac n’ cheese with vegan bacon on the side, which is delicious, a blueberry smoothie with protein powder and almond milk, a tomato pesto and mozzarella cheese sandwich, grilled cheese with fries on the side, and let’s not forget artichoke pizza. These are the foods that I have since I’m on my own in college. Since I consider those two that symbolizes meals, it’s part of who I am. Since this is a big transition, I’ve been brought up with this tradition my whole life and now a huge change has made me into a different person of still having that tradition in my family, to break free and explore different things.

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