Write an essay which explores the significance of food through a personal experience. For example, explain how your childhood was defined by the constant struggle between you and your parents to get you to eat healthy foods, or describe the most elaborate meal that you have ever eaten, perhaps at a fancy restaurant, and how it made you feel. Also, you might relate your first experiences with growing a garden and enjoying fresh vegetables or catching and cooking your own fish on a camping trip. If your family still maintains its ethnic origins by preparing food from the old country, you might use your essay to describe such a meal and how it connects you to your roots.