Prompt: Why is the choice to serve leftover Chinese food significant in “Lunch”? How could the author have made a more culturally meaningful choice for her grandmother? Use the text to support your answer. Then reflect on a time when you realized you could have done something more meaningful for someone else.

 Prompt Response: The choice to serve leftover Chinese food signifies how there is no longer the same level of effort being put forth into food anymore. The author could have tried cooking herself, she could have tried to make Sancocho to show that their tradition of cooking is not dying off. I could have learned some of my mom’s recipes when she still cooked often. Though I didn’t, because at the time I had no desire to learn or carry on our tradition of food. 

Summary: In class we read Lunch by Cristina Henriquez, then answered a short quiz about the passage with our classmates. 

Reflection: You can always do more for others but you can’t change what’s already happened. Sometimes things fall apart whether you try to stop it or not. What’s important is to keep trying to improve day after day because you never know what you can save.