Food is considered to be the most important part of human life. While the phenomenon of food is sanctified with the understanding of sharing sustenance, it also comes to the fore with its important features such as creating a social order that divides people into classes, directing international politics, and shaping the society by revealing new understandings in the modern world. The concept of power can be defined as getting the result of an event by doing whatever it takes. The effectiveness of the food power has changed according to the wealth in the regional or country cuisine, the welfare level of the people, and the place of the people in the social hierarchy. In this study, it was aimed to determine the level of perception of the relationship between food and power in today's traditional Turkish family structure. For this purpose, an answer is sought to the question of whether there are changes in the traditional family structure in the context of the relationship between food and power. In the study, field research, which is a qualitative research technique, was used. In this context, data were obtained through an interview with 17 housewives living in the city center of Manisa on 01-07 March 2021. As a result of the research, it has been revealed that although the patriarchal order continues to function in the traditional family, eating habits are also accepted in the modern order. Within the scope of the research, it can be stated that the father, who is the head of the family, the oldest person in the house or the youngest child in the house, takes the most valuable share in the meal like the best part of the meat. It has been understood that traditional families have a table seating arrangement, but the table seating arrangement is shaped according to habits, not status and gender.