I am not that good on cooking dishes especially the main menu course or the side. I may be good on cooking pasta’s but not on the main dishes. Even if my grandmother, my mother and my Aunt’s were all good on cooking I am not that gifted like them. I had enrolled for a cooking lesson last summer but seems that stress at home and due to so many task to do with kids and my husband I didn’t concentrated that much on the course. I may have learn some dishes and recipe but not that good to present on some occasions. I really wanted to learn different kind of dishes and recipe, because my husband love to invite guest at home and I do not want to spend that much money on catering services or delivery food packages. I also wanted to impress his friends and colleagues that his wife was good on cooking. I also wanted to be confident to myself that I can cook well and healthy food because I am planning to operate a food business 5 years from now when my child where all in Secondary level.
My husband told me that I can still learn to cook and find recipes without enrolling on a class. Because on the internet there are hundreds and even thousands of recipes that I could search. I have proven it personally after looking for the dish that my mom cook on my last birthday. My daughter wanted me to try imprinting my mom’s recipe, I am too embarrass to call her and ask her the recipe so I decided to try the search online. Then I discover the recipe finder where they have a lot of recipe that I could try a home and even cook on different occasion. Since the day that I had found the site and immediately bookmark it I can cook different kind of dishes. I always have new dinner ideas that I could share my family. My kids even get excited whenever it is dinner or dessert time. I do not have problem with my kids when it comes to foods because they eat and even like all the foods that I serve them. Vegetables, fruits, meats and even soup they both would finish their meal and leave their plate empty.
I also share the information I had found on the recipe finder and share my discovery to my grandmother and mother. Even if they already had tried and signatured some recipe on our family still they are delighted to try different styles and kind of recipe.

Before I use to believe that only clothing and shoes products have the right to be reviewed. That you are going to search for different kind of reviews about clothing products online before buying for it. But when my sister ask me to find a restaurant where the reception for her birthday will be held. I then look for different restaurant then give her the list. But when she ask me to find for a reviews about their menu so that she can choose from the restaurant depending on the menu that they are offering. My sister was a fashion model so the foods that she eat was a little complicated. And if her guest would be her fashion model friends. Expect that the food must be certain. So I gather some list of the restaurant from a website where I found the boston restaurant and their menu. On the site they got names and list of restaurant as well as the reviews about the food that they can offer you. So the site would be the ideal and best source of references for the menus. I do not have to bother visiting their place to see the menu’s that they can offer.

If you are successful in arousing interest and stimulating thinking, your listeners may want to ask questions at the end of your speech.
First, prepare for questions. Try to anticipate what you might be asked, think about how you will answer these questions, and do the research required to answer them effectively. Practice your speech before friends and urge them to ask you tough questions.
Second, repeat or paraphrase the question. This is especially important if the question was long or complicated and your audience is large. Paraphrasing ensures that everyone in the audience hears the question. It gives you time to think of your answer, and it helps you be sure you understood the question. Paraphrasing also enables you to steer the question to the type of answer you are prepared to give.
Third, maintain eye contact with the audience as you answer. Note that we say “with the audience,” not just “with the questioner.” Look first at the questioner, then make eye contact with other audience members, returning your gaze to the questioner as you finish your answer. The purpose of a question- and-answer period should be to extend the understanding of the entire audience, not to carry on a private conversation with one person.
Fourth, defuse hostile questions. Reword emotional questions in more objective language. For example, if you are asked, “Why do you want to throw away our money on people who are too lazy to work?” you might respond with something like, “1 understand your frustration and think what you really want to know is ‘Why aren’t our current programs helping people break out of the chains of unemployment?”
Simply saying “I don’t know” can also help defuse a hostile questioner. Roger Ailes, a political media adviser for three U.S. presidents, described how former New York City Mayor Ed Koch once used this technique. Koch had spent three hundred thousand dollars putting bike lanes in Manhattan. Cars were driving in the bike lanes. Cyclists were running over pedestrians. The money seemed wasted. Soon thereafter, when Koch was running for reelection, he appeared on a “meet-the-press” type of show. This is how the questioning went:
One reporter led off with “Mayor Koch, in light of the financial difficulties in New York City, how could you possibly Iustif’ wasting three hundred thousand dollars on bike lanes?.. .“ Koch smiled and he
said, “You’re right. It was a terrible idea.” He went on. “I thought it would work. It didn’t. It was one of the worst mistakes I ever made.” And he stopped. Now nobody knew what to do. They had another
twenty-six minutes of the program left. They all had prepared questions about the bike lanes, and so the next person feebly asked, “But, Mayor Koch, how could you do this?” And Mayor Koch said, “I already told you, it was stupid. I did a dumb thing. It didn’t work.” And he stopped again. Now there were twenty-five minutes left and nothing to ask him. It was brilliant.8
Fifth, keep your answers short and direct. Don’t give another speech.
Sixth, handle non questions politely. If someone starts to give a speech rather than ask a question, wait until he or she pauses for breath and then cut in with something like, “Thank you for your comment” or “I appreciate your remarks. Your question, then, is . . .“ or “That’s an interesting perspective. Can we have another question?” Don’t get caught up in a shouting match. Stay in command of the situation.
Finally, bring the question-and-answer session to a close. Call for a final question and, as you complete the answer, summarize your message again to refocus listeners on your central points.

Extemporaneous speaking is prepared and practiced but not written out or memorized. It offers a spontaneous and natural-sounding presentation, and makes it easier to establish immediacy with an audience. The speaker is not the prisoner of a text, and each presentation will vary according to the audience, occasion, and inspiration of the moment. Another large advantage is that it encourages interaction with an audience. A Vanderbilt speaker who distributed photographs and then instructed listeners on how to view them, and another student who asked listeners to close their eyes and imagine themselves living as dwarfs, were playing up these advantages. Such interaction encourages the audience to participate in constructing the message of the speech. It becomes their creation as well, which is especially important when persuading listeners.
Extemporaneous speaking involves preparation and practice, and is therefore more polished than impromptu speaking. But it also allows you to respond to feedback and to adapt accordingly, giving it a strong advantage over manuscript and memorized presentations. Because extemporaneous speaking combines the best characteristics of these various modes of presentation, many instructors require that you use it for most classroom speeches.

When you make a manuscript presentation, you read to an audience from either a text or a teleprompter. Manuscript presentations have many of the same problems as memorized presentations. Because speakers must look at a script, they lose eye contact with listeners. This in turn causes a loss of immediacy and inhibits adapting to feedback. Moreover, as with memorized presentations, you may have trouble writing in an oral style.
Some problems are exclusive to manuscript presentations. Most people do not read aloud well. Their presentations lack variety. Also, when people plan to read a speech, they often do not practice enough. Unless speakers are comfortable with the material, they end up glued to their manuscripts rather than communicating with listeners. Other problems may arise if your manuscript pages get out of order, or if you pick up the wrong paper or teleprompter material on your way to a presentation.
Although this last predicament may sound improbable, it can happen, as President Clinton can confirm. In September of 1993 Clinton presented a speech on health care to a joint session of Congress. He had been working on the speech for some time and finished revising it on the ride to the CapitoL
The final changes were entered onto computer disks immediately before he was to speak. Here is a report of what happened:
No one realized that a White House communications aide had already accidentally merged the new speech with an old file of the February 17 speech to Congress. . . . When Clinton took the podium minutes later, he was understandably alarmed to see a seven-month-old speech on the teleprompter’s display screens. Clinton told the news to Gore. . . . Gore summoned Stephanopoulos, who scrambled to fix the mistake, eventually downloading the correct version…. But for seven minutes, Clinton vamped with just notes.5
During the first seven minutes of iis presentation, the president was forced into an extemporaneous style—the method of presentation most communication instructors recommend. The speech was received with high acclaim:
For a man reading the wrong speech off his teleprompter, Bill Clinton spoke with persuasive passion as he addressed Congress and the nation about health care last week. Gone was the Slick Willie.. . . Suddenly Clinton looked the leader millions of Americans hoped they were voting for: decisive, forceful, even visionary.6
Manuscript presentations are most useful when the speaker seeks accuracy or eloquence, or when time constraints are severe, as in legal announcements, formal political speeches, or media presentations that must be timed within seconds. Extemporaneous presentations may also include quotations or technical information that must be read if they are to achieve their effect Because you will need to read material from time to time, we offer the following suggestions:
• Use large print to prepare your manuscript so that you can see it without straining.
• Use light pastel rather than white paper, to cut down on glare from lights.
I Double- or triple-space the manuscript.
• Mark pauses with slashes.
I Highlight material you want to emphasize.
• Practice speaking from your manuscript so that you can maintain as much eye contact as possible with your audience.

Language also can arouse intense feelings. It can touch our hearts and change our attitudes. This power is ethical when it supplements sound reasoning and credible evidence to involve us in the action urged by the speech. It is abused when speakers substitute appeals to feelings for evidence or reasoning. To arouse intense feelings in ethical ways, language must overcome the barriers of time, distance, and apathy.
Overcoming Time. Listeners live in the present. Therefore, it can be difficult to awaken feelings about events that lie in the remote past or distant future. Fortunately, the language of feeling has a time-machine quality. Speakers can use language skills to bring past and future events into the present and make them seem real.
Stories that recapture feelings from the past are often told at company meetings or used in advertisements to counter impressions that a business is too large and impersonal to care about its employees and customers. Such narratives can also establish a sense of corporate heritage and culture. In the following story, the speaker reminds listeners of one of the legends of Federal Express, a pioneer in overnight delivery:
You know, we take a lot for granted. It’s hard to remember that Federal Express was once just a fly-by-night dream, a crazy idea in which a few people had invested—not just their time and their money, but their lives and futures. I remember one time early on when things weren’t going so well. We were really up against it. Couldn’t even make the payroll that week. It looked like we were going to crash. Fred [Smith, founder of the company was in in a deep funk. Never saw him quite like that before or since. “What the hell,” he said, and flew off to Las Vegas. The next day he flew back and his face was shining. “We’re going to make it,” he said. He had won $27,000 at the blackjack table! And we made it. We met the payroll. And then things began to turn around, and Federal Express grew into the giant it is today.
This story enlivens the past by emphasizing the contrast of emotions—the “deep funk” versus the “shining” face. “What the hell” and “We’re going to make it” express depression and confidence. Such use of dialogue to express feelings recreates the excitement and brings the scene into the present. In using dialogue, the speaker steps back and lets Fred Smith voice his own feelings. It would have been less effective if the speaker had simply said: “Fred was depressed, but after he got back from Las Vegas he was confident.” Offering such a summary would have diluted the emotional strength of the scene.
Language can also make the future seem close at hand. Because language can transport us across the barrier of time, both tradition and a vision of tomorrow can guide us through the present.
Overcoming Distance. The closer something is to us, the easier it is for us to develop feelings about it. But what if speakers must discuss faraway people and places? Language can telescope such subjects and bring them close. Consider how one student used language to reduce the distance between her urban audience and her rural subject:
James Johnson has lived in Perry County for eighty-four years. He taught me some important things: why the mist rises on a lake at night, how to make the best wild blackberry jam you’ve ever put in your mouth, and how to take care of baby rabbits that are abandoned. Today, I want to tell you more about James—and about myself through him.
By focusing on concrete details involving the senses of sight, taste, and touch—the mist, the jam, the rabbits—the speaker conquered distance and aroused feelings about a subject that might otherwise have seemed remote.
Overcoming Apathy. We live in an age of communication overkill. Modern audiences have become jaded by an endless barrage of mass-mediated information, persuasion, and entertainment. The personal contact of public speaking, even when mediated, allows speakers to reach out and touch listeners with language. Jesse Jackson stirred the audience of the 1988 Democratic National Convention with the following message:
America’s not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. When I was a child growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, and grandmother could not afford a blanket, she didn’t complain and we did not freeze. Instead, she took pieces of old cloth—patches, wool, silk, gabardine, crockersack on the patches—barely good enough to wipe off your shoes with.
But they didn’t stay that way very long. With sturdy hands and a strong cord, she sewed them together into a quilt, a thing of beauty and power and culture.

Now, Democrats, we must build such a quilt. Farmers, you seek fair prices and you are right, but you cannot stand alone. Your patch is
not big enough. Workers, you fight for fair wages. You are right. But your patch, labor, is not big enough. Women, you seek comparable
worth and pay equity. You are right. But your patch is not big
enough. Women, mothers, who seek Head Start and day care and pre-natal care on the front side of life, rather than jail care and
welfare on the back side of life, you’re right, but your patch is not big enough.
Students, you seek scholarships. You are right. But your patch is not big enough. Blacks and Hispanics, when we fight for civil rights, we are right, but our patch is not big enough. Gays and lesbians,
when you fight against discrimination and [forl a cure for AIDS, you
are right, but your patch is not big enough. Conservatives and progressives, when you fight for what you.believe, right-wing, left-wing,
hawk, dove—you are right, from your point of view, but your point of view is not enough.
But don’t despair. Be as wise as my grandmama. Pool the patches and the pieces together, bound by a common thread. When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground we’ll have the power to
bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our nation.6
Jackson’s references to poverty and his grandmother’s loving care aroused sympathetic feelings in many viewers. The image of a quilt—suggesting the traditional warmth of home and the ability to create things of lasting value and beauty from humble materials—gave the audience a vision to unite them. When artfully used, language can overcome the barriers of time, distance, and apathy to make us care about a subject.