LOOK AT THIS BLOG: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

Midwife/Middle School Science Teacher | San Antonio, TX | 3-Person Household (including dog) | First week after deciding to eat all local produce.

If you looked in my refrigerator or freezer prior to meeting, you’d probably peg me as some sort of carnivorous, urban lumberjack with a penchant for drinking. My ice box is loaded with ribeye steaks, sliced pepperoni, lotsa cheese and at least three bottles of vodka (You’d be pretty on point minus the lumberjack thing). 

Bar Tender | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Goes to sleep at 8AM and wakes up at 4PM daily.Artist Mark Menjivar spent 3 years traveling around the U.S. exploring food issues and how what we eat reflects who we are and the way we live.  His series You Are What You Eat includes a compilation of 34 unconventional portraits of the interiors of refrigerators that belong to everyone from a competitive food eater to a midwife. 

Menjivar highlights a carpenter’s fridge chock full o’ freshly hunted buck, a bartender with an obvious affection/need for take out, and a street advertiser who makes a fixed income of $432 a month with nothing but a jar of mayo, among various other combinations.  He uses seemingly meaningless subject matter as social commentary on the way we live and what we prioritize, or are able to prioritize, based on income, size of household, and location. 

What story does your refrigerator tell?