Response to Classmate's Journal Entry 1 (Week 2)

This is a response to April's Super Long Free Entry: http://aprilantoniou.blogspot.com/2012/01/super-long-free-entry-week-2.html (I included the link so everyone can read what I am talking about)...
April,
I really really really liked this piece. I literally devoured or scarfed (food humor) this piece up. What I enjoyed most, a lot like what Kelsey posted, was the idea that your relationship with your dad was complicated. But every bit of information, with the recipe and the relationships, all tied in together. The way you tied the bubbling and popping of the tomatoes to your brother being thrown across the house was really interesting. I noticed, and I don't know if you meant to do this or not, was that a lot of the memories conjured by the recipe had to do with your brother and your dad. It seems as though they had the worst relationship and you were there to kind of mend the two opposing forces. I also thought it was really interesting how your sauce was different than your fathers. I took it to show, a lot like how in the showing not telling exercise we did in class with the knife and the sofa, that there was a little underlying meaning to the sauce. To me, it kind of shows that even though you and your father were making the same dish (or maybe even though you both created families), the sauces (or the relationships), are different and therefore making the taste of the dishes different (making the future of your families different.)
I like to read into things. Its the psychology interest in me that brings out the weird connections. I thought this was a really good piece and you really "wrote about cooking without writing about cooking." Nice job.