The column: Boot Camp Teaches School Staff to Cook Healthier

   Link: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/08/02/krista-ramsey-cooking-boot-camp/13534925/

         Summary of the column: Cook for America chefs came to Norwood High School to educate the lunch staff about serving healthier food. The chefs conducted a school- cooking boot camp for a week (eight hours a day) teaching the staff in time management about menu planning, health foods and knife skills.

          "Change was not about challenges. Its amazing the number of kids who cant recognize a hard boiled egg, not kidding," ( Paragraph 17). This impacts me because normally you wont see an option for an hard boiled egg to be served. Kids are used to seeing pizza, fries, burgers and etc.. Kids aren't used to seeing eggs, salads and other healthier meals. They don't recognize these healthier options because they only recognize the unhealthier options. Its sad to see people not recognizing the healthier meals and options. The authors word choice is very powerful and truthful. For an example she says, " Americans just want parts of chicken- legs, breasts, thighs-leaving processors with less desirable parts and carcasses. "What's in here?" she asks rhetorically, waving a dinosaur piece. “Whatever’s left over.”. She uses the words carcasses and rhetorically. The syntax in this column is the sentences are short and long. She doesn't have any two word phrases or anything.

Ramsey's Writing Style
                Ramsey's writing style in the first column that I read (For Better Vision, Kids Need Time Outdoors) her writing style is very clear, on point and its very truthful. The first sentence itself is very true to the world now we live in, " You see it all the time. Your teenager at the dinner table, waiting for his checkup at the orthodontist's office, sauntering to his car- continually hunched over his smartphone or iPod." Its very straightforward and its very truthful. Ramsey's writing style in the second column that I read ( Super Bowl QBs Score Points for Great Style) her writing style is very modern and relatable. "And almost no one dresses up any more for things that were once considered something of an event- dinner at a nice restraint, religious services, plane flights." This is modern to our world currently and very relatable. Ramsey's writing style in the last column that I read ( Boot Camp Teaches School Staff to Cook Healthier) the writing style is very honest and very straightforward. "She tells them that Americans just want parts of chicken – legs, breasts, thighs – leaving processors with less desirable parts and carcasses. "What’s in here?" she asks rhetorically, waving a dinosaur piece. "Whatever’s left over."

         Questions for the Author:
1. Why did this boot camp interest you?    2. Why did you like to write in the first place?