How To Describe Food In Writing

eating street food There are many delicious dishes from different cuisines – American, Indian, Mexican, Greek, Chinese, etc. Each has its tastes, peculiarities of cooking. But which country has the best food? The question "What is my favorite food?" may occur to students when they are assigned with essay writing on this topic. Hm… and indeed, what is that? Determining with the favorite food is half the battle. Now, you should start writing about it. It isn't enough to state, "My favorite food is … I like it because of …". The descriptive essay writing is meant to be another – describing food as concisely and vividly as possible. Describing your favorite food, don't be afraid of touching on a taste receptor of the reader.

So, in this article, you'll be shown how to write a descriptive essay on "My Favorite Food". Moreover, you are given an essay sample to show how it should be done in practice. Follow it and write your own essay!

The Dilemma: Which Food Is My Favorite?

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According to a survey, pasta is the world's favorite food. What's yours? Because of a huge variety of food today, it is really challenging to choose the most favorite food to describe in an essay. What not try out a quiz to know what your favorite food is? There are some questions to answer and start writing an essay about the chosen food based on the following points:

How often do you eat it?
What was the first time when you tasted it? What was your impression?
What associations do you have with this food?
Where do you like eating it?
Have you ever cooked it on your own?

By the way, do you know that your favorite food can say about your personality most? For example, if you like hot sauce, you are an adventure-seeker. Like ice cream with a cherry on top? Don't lose your child-like innocence or a sense of wonder anyway! Rely on interesting facts in your essay to get the readers interested in reading it. Look at an essay sample below to see what you can present in your own essay and in what way.

Essay Sample – My Favorite Food Is …

How lucky we are today – all delicious food is easily available to us! Sometimes, I wonder how life was in the ancient past when our ancestors did not have easy access to food which we have today. Want to try out the Chinese food? No need to go to China! Just visit any restaurant in the city and get familiar with these hot and salty tastes. Do in the same way when you want to eat an American traditional dish, a burger, for example.

Tired of all the guides and never-ending instructions?

Although I can find food of all kinds in stores, there is food that stands out as my favorite one. I easily walk past the pizzas, the fluffy pastries, pies, and cream cakes. But when I sit in the restaurant and see the words oxtail stew with creamed spinach and potatoes, I drool immediately.

I remember the moment when a waiter of Waitron placed the crispy warm bread rolls beside me on a white plate. In front of me, there were yellow balls of butter. Next, she placed in front of me a bowl of creamed spinach, dark green finely cut with the white cream and steam coming from it advertising it was freshly cooked. I inhaled the warm aroma unique to spinach. Beside it, there was a bowl with smooth white mashed potato. Rich creamy smooth and firm from the butter and milk that had been beaten into it to add to its flavor and smooth texture.

Then the bowl full of oxtail stew came. Its rich dark brown color was set off by the white bowl it was in. The gravy was thick and rich. I could smell the aroma of beef, garlic, and herbs and spices drifting up from it into my nose. Unfortunately, any food has a tendency to get cold. My mouth watered in anticipation to eat it.

Now, I took the silver spoon and dipped it into the bowl of potato. It smoothly penetrated the firm fluffy white mound. I lifted the spoon and turned it over on my plate depositing a mound of potato. I repeated this 3 times. Then using another spoon, I scooped up spinach dripping white sauce and put it on the plate beside the potato. The dark green spinach was hot, the white sauce melted and it contrasted with the creamy potato. After a second helping of spinach, I took another larger spoon. I dipped it into the rich brown stew and stirred it. Then I scooped up a chunky slice of oxtail. Several other pieces followed that one onto my plate, the rich brown meat, contrasting with the dark green spinach and creamy white potato. The succulent meat gleaming with a coating of rich gravy and the aroma of gravy, garlic spinach and potato blending in the steam rising from my plate. I scooped up gravy from the bowl and trickled it over the white potato catching the scent of red wine. I broke the roll and spread butter on it and I was ready to eat.

Now the decision where to start, so I bit into the fresh crisp roll and tasted its warm soft texture and the melting butter. By then I had decided to sample the potato with gravy and the spinach. The potato was smooth, with a taste of butter overpowered with the tangy gravy, its garlic and hint of good red wine in it. The spinach was a good foil. Smooth with its vegetable texture and plain white sauce it softened the taste of the gravy. Then I used my fork and removed the succulent meat from the bone. Its soft texture, fatty feeling in the mouth, the spice wine and garlic in the gravy made it perfect.

Finally, I sat contented at my table eating as much as I could, and more than I should of my favorite food.

Is this essay written in vivid details so that you would like to taste it as well? So it is your main aim in your own descriptive essay – to make the reader try out your favorite food.

7 Tips on Writing a Descriptive Essay About Favorite Food:

This essay is based on personal views. It describes your personal experience and view of your favorite food.
The goal is to create a vivid picture of your favorite food in the reader's imagination.
Brainstorm by using your power of observation and make notes.
Carefully choose descriptive words that bring out a vivid picture of what you describe – in this case – your favorite food.
Ensure you apply all your senses. The reader must be brought into the picture in his/her imagination – use words such as hot, cold, warm, dark, light, sunshine, fragrant, and the like.
Describe what emotions and feelings you have while eating this food. Readers are supposed to identify and connect with your emotions as well.
Do not lose your focus on proper writing and make sure you organize your paper correctly.