comm 1 3rd reading "Figures of Orality"

1. How does food become  a center of power relations between master and slaves?
            
      The food become  a  center of power relations between master and slaves,  the master depends on the slaves because the latter prepare the  food for their master, while slaves depend on their masters on what they can eat.In short, the slaves cant choose on what food they want, their master choose it for them.

2.How is food associated with a mother?

       On the essay, the mother is associated with food because she prepares the food,nurses the babies of her white masters, and her body, treated as a sexual food for her master's sexual appetite.