Monday, May 19, 2008

Food and taste


During my delicious lunch with my sister and her friend at The Pacific Place yesterday, I realized the main reason why food makes people like to eat (and becomes fat) is on tastes. Not its nutrition, not also the varied color, nor the shape. The main reason is the taste. Without the taste, food will no longer become an interesting and attractive object. It’s a lie if someone says his/her main reason in consuming certain food is the rich nutrition it has. No matter how high calcium it has, high vitamins, but if the food has no taste, or at least tastes badly, you will not eat that, right?

The doubled mistakes that junk food has is on its good taste and its (very) low nutrition. On the other hand, extreme ways make healthy food also has doubled mistakes; its high nutrition and its not-too-good-taste. Why can’t each kind of those foods be light-hearted and not to be selfish and egocentric? They can meet each other in the middle. Okay, maybe it’s not as easy as it sounds.

Mind if I offer a simpler way? The junk foods to raise a little of its nutrition and to decrease some of the taste, while the healthy food to be a bit more ‘naughty’ by increasing its taste and not being always in a ‘saintly’ nutrition.

Then, I suppose they will make a brighter culinary world for all of us people, right? And a happier people, at least happier in their tongue and their digestive system.

So, back again to my point, what makes people fat is the taste the food has in it. People tend to double – some even triple – their eating portion because of the taste. Not because they are hungry; it’s the good taste that makes people hungry, not the opposite. If hungry is the reason, then the taste makes the hungry thing even doubled.

The world of culinary is turning around the taste. I think everybody can agree with that.

How can we relate the story with our life as human being? Easy. Easy in saying it. Look at the blue sentence before. Be light-hearted, not to be selfish and egocentric on each other, which mean to understand, do empathic, and no want to dominate. A brighter culinary world; a peace in our life. The taste is ‘love’ from The Great Chef Himself. More over, can we be the taste itself?

Difficult in executing.

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