I visited the two food websites www.accidentalhedonist.com and www.glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com which not only made me think about food in a different way but also caught my attention with regards to the style of writing in each of the websites.
The first of the two websites-www.accidentalhedonist.com- portrays a style of writing which has a more serious tone to it but at the same time has moments of sarcasm. The reviews are in the form of a report displaying facts and figures. The reviews are written from a worldwide perspective and display certain forms of interdependence between states and countries. For example, one of the articles states that most of the beer produced in North America comes from places such as Bavaria and England. According to the article beer can be categorized into four unique regions of origin - Bavarian, Belgian, British Isles and North America. As the article states, most of us only know beer by their respective brand names such as Budweiser, Carlsberg etc. but it’s interesting to know where the beers are originally from and what ingredients go into the making of different types of beers. Personally, beer is a topic I thought I would never discuss . Can beer be described as a type of food? I don’t think so because people usually don’t look for beverages like beer to satisfy their appetite or hunger. Anyways, this article forced me, even if only for few moments, to look at beer in a different point of view.
The next website - www.glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com – has a more relaxed tone and the encounters with food are more personal when it comes to the writer. She starts off the article slowly by visualizing the inactive and subdued nature of the winter season. Then she looks at tomatoes as a ray of hope which springs the article into life and all of a sudden there is an energetic feeling to it. As stated earlier, the writer mentions personal experiences by describing the look on people’s faces when they have a bite at a tomato. All this was the prologue to a recipe for smoked tomato salsa. At this point the article tends to get a bit boring as it becomes more descriptive.
As a whole, the writing pattern in the first website is more monotonous with few twists here and there. The latter seems more appealing mainly due to the presence of pictures which emphasizes the importance of media. Another reason is that the second website has a more casual writing style and is better perceived by people. The most striking difference, however, is the fact that the first article mainly stated facts while the second article described a recipe. The target audiences are same as far as the two websites are concerned but the approach is different.
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