By Abigail Adaramola
Food is everywhere in pop culture, chefs are the new celebrities. People line up for hours just to try food at a particular restaurant. People are jumping over one another to try to latest culinary trend. There’s even an entire network dedicated to food and all in facets. Plenty of tv shows revolve around food, for example, Bob’s Burgers, a popular animated series. The show revolves around the Belcher family who owns a struggling burger joint. No matter what happens, no matter what they do, or where they go, they always end up at the restaurant. The show generally begins and ends the restaurant. They face so much opposition, there are in a losing battle with the restaurant across the street, they can never pay their rent on time, the health inspector has it in for them, and it seems that disaster after disaster always befell the restaurant but through all this the restaurant remains. I understand the restaurant to mean a representation of their family, just like there are there for one another the restaurant is there for them. Whatever they do they know that their family is there for them at the end of the day, in sort of the same way, whatever they do, they know the restaurant will be there and they can go back to it. It’s a physical representation of the bond within that family.