I was working in the kitchen today, making breakfast at nearly midday and thought, 'sometimes I just cant be arsed!'. Already i was thinking about cornflakes, toast and the myriad other instant foods as i was blending fresh tomatoes from the garden with garlic, onion, coriander and chicken stock for the salsa for the eggs I was making but it made me think. No! It is worth the time. Food is an essential part of how we live, of what we enjoy about life. If it was not for the exquisite flavours and wonderous textures of the finer foods in life the world would be just that little bit darker.
Eating. The sharing of food. The savouring of flavours. These are some of the reasons for life itself. If we take the flavours away, if we inundate reality with bland sameness and cheap sugar we remove the richness of life. Its not just the flavours either. The process is also vital. The patience, the tasting, the balance...it is all so important. I think it is a metaphor of life....
Life, like food gives only what is put into it. If you take the easy option, if you buy the fast food instant soups of the world you will only ever get from it enough to remain standing. We are what we eat in so many ways and hence a rich, complex and varied diet that is always searching for new combinations of flavours and realities...well what more can I say, life will follow.
To eat is to live, in so many more ways than we can ever imagine.
In life, take big bites, but savour every mouthful
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