In “If You Are What You Eat, Then What am I?,” Geeta Kothari Talks wanted both India and American food, but disliking some choices they offer. Kothari’s mother tried to make American food for her, but it failed. When they visited their relatives in India, food would be prepared for them; however, Kothari was not able to stomach the food. At those moments she wished to be like her relatives in order to like the food. She marries a man who eats American food and she contrast his American ways with her Indian ways. They both have different features and she cannot cook her Indian food as well as he can cook American food. Kothari also worries that her husband may leave her because of their differences. After reading “If You Are What You Eat,
