Talk:Group 4 Proposal

I really want to make an awesome proposal, but it starts with an idea. And the idea needs to be something that, like a baby, needs to be slowly conceived to its fullest extent. Cornbread isn't just a matter of the colonial period nor is it something that is "soul food". This odd bread moves beyond a specific regional division and can be found in "racial" foods as well. Professor Moon notes that we have some basic questions that will help to guide the project to the place it needs to be. But we have the basic idea so let's build the thesis back to where it should be. I so want to mention looking at modern cookbooks through the holy power of Google...but I feel like that would be just wrong to say! Ugh!!! By the way please be checking through any edits I make and let me know what you think : D--Bakhtinjali 00:01, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Our Background page missed the point entirely. We got way too hung up on civil war and colonial history. Maybe a better background is to just set up how we have been researching? I am still not sure how to make the background page nice and coherent. I kind of want to blow the paragraph up and start fresh.--Bakhtinjali 00:24, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree, way too focused on civil war. That's the part I'm really trying to change. I'm pretty much blowing the whole thing except the first couple sentences. I'm thinking of just leaving that as the idea of soul food/ African American tie to cornbread. But I need to bring in some ideas how as immigrants came to America, they picked up eating cornbread because of the fact that it was already a lower class and inexpensive staple food. Should I mention that while it is an inexpensive food often eaten by those who did not have a lot of money, it did not stay in that boundary? It was enjoyed by just about everyone.

I definitely would not neglect the fact that it is in fact a poorer food. Corn is still the main ingredient and that is dirt cheap! You could always mention how many people have picked up cornbread for their own, but to me immigrants eating cornbread readily is a signal that it is cheap food. I think you can keep the idea of it being eaten by everybody but I wouldn't back down from an argument that it is cheap poor food.

Okay, got that. So I see you added about the Spaniards, and I'm not sure where you were going with that so you can have it. I was trying to lead into the immigrants picking up cornbread because of its cheapness and bring into talking about brands coming about, such as jiffy in 1930. It may also be a good idea to point out that even Jiffy mix is really cheap, as all cornbread mix is. All under a dollar, many under 50 cents. And that's even today. Well, Mr. Wiki expert, haha I love everything you have done with our Wiki page! Did you see I managed to add a couple links to the background section? I think I'm going to leave it at that. I feel as though I have covered each aspect of which we spoke. Let me know if you think I should elaborate more or say some other things. -emap p.s. How did you get it to sign your username like you did in the first couple things you posted??