At this point in class, I see my most exciting ideas relating to multicultural foods and how identity and food affects relationships. I explored my relationship with food and heritage in my Recipe As A Narrative Artifact project and continued to expand through my freewrites and reflections. In this project I drifted more towards my personal relationships, specifically with my mother. I really love breakfast foods such as pancakes, waffles, cereal, coffee, pastries, etc., and she has always told me it is because when she was pregnant with me she always craved breakfast foods. I decided to read a few articles, including one from NPR (https://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/139033757/babys-palate-and-food-memories-shaped-before-birth), that discussed the development of a baby’s palate and how food memories are shaped before birth. Once I gained more knowledge about this topic, I decided to share my story through this comic. I really liked the graphic novel format in this situation because I feel like I was able to communicate my ideas more clearly through the use of visuals and words. Everything that I read about the development of a baby’s palate helped me to better understand characteristics I developed on my own versus ones I was taught.