Food, Love and Science

It’s all about the love.
---- Troy Maguire

Cooking is the ultimate giving.
-----Jamie Oliver

Cook from your heart so that you may eat the food of love.
----- Deb Davies

I like these quotes from the three chefs above, because they have an understanding of food that comes from their passion and dedication. But this instinctive understanding that comes from the experience of food is something that many of us are losing touch with in our busy lives, where the complete experience of anything is degraded. Neither is this understanding of the experience of food current in the way food and health issues are discussed in the media.

The subject of healthy food is invariably presented in terms of science, with all the jargon of food chemistry readily invoked when food issues are being explored. The central thesis of all our discussion and education about food is a very simplistic one---that the human body is a machine that needs healthy food, and when it doesn’t get it, the machine breaks down. It’s all very clinical and matter-of-fact. It’s not very inspirational. It’s never going to ignite a passion in us for good food. All it will ever do is make us feel vaguely guilty about our bad food habits, but not convinced enough to ditch them permanently.

Blessings on your table!


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