answers on the question about "Figures of Orality"

1. How does food become the center of power relations between master and slaves?
     >>Slaves depend too much on their masters, they cannot live without them for slaves do not have any money or property with them.  They depend their shelter, protection, clothes and most especially their foods to their master.  Without their master providing them food, they would most probably die of hunger.  So through means of food, the master has a strong hold of their slaves for they know that they can scare their slaves through giving them not enough food whenever they are not contented with their slave's performance.  Being a slave, you would perform your task well to be able to have good food as payment for you services.  Food can be one of the instruments a master can use to show their slave how powerful they can be towards them.

2. How is food associated with a mother?

    >>A mother provides her child with milk which an infant needs in her first few months in the earth in order to survive. Just like how a slave in independent to his master, a child is also independent to his mother for survival.  Indeed, a mother provides her child with food that the child needs in order to live, but she does not only feed her child with food but she also nourishes her child with everything he needs to learn in life just like the values her child would be needing in the future.  In short, a mother feeds her child with a life, a good life for the future for no mother would feed her child with negative things, instead, she would give her everything she needs to live a good life.

"Do nations express themselves in their food?"-main idea and supporting details

Main idea: Food, like education and experiences in life, lends a hand in the evolvement of of human beings.  Excitement, generosity, graciousness, hospitality, irritation and relaxation, all could have some connection to the food we eat.

Supporting details: 

• Dining is the essence of existence itself. Life revolves around food. The longer it takes to consume a meal, the more one is imbued with zest for living. The food itself, even though important, is, in the main, a way of coalescing social life. 
• In Europe and North America, the cities are saturated with fast-food outlets where people eat and run. This reflects their lifestyle -- a fast pace of life where, in order to succeed, time means everything. 
• Spain and Arab's mazzas and tapas tell the same story.  Leisurely dining is inbred into the culture.  Conversing and enjoying tidbits of food is the core of the Spanish character.
• The Arab contributions to the Latin-speaking world, not only in the food arena but in almost all aspects of life has had a great hand in forming the Latin individual. It is said that inside every person with a Spanish or Portuguese ancestry, lies a hidden Arab still enjoying the dance, music, song and, above all, the food of the Arab lands. 
• The culinary art of Malaysia is one of the main elements in the evolution of its people. One can honestly say, without much contradiction, that food had a great hand in the formation of the modem Malaysian. 
• Another example of this is the modern Americans who loves to eat instant foods such as those of the fast food chains, like their way of living, their economy grows fast as well unlike most of us Filipinos who love to buy foods in eateries, it reflects our country where in instead we export rice to other countries, which is a product of one of the main livelihoods in our country, we import them form other countries.
• The way people live is reflected on their food and how they eat them.