Getting Started / My Philosophy
GETTING STARTED: So, for those of you who actually care, I've had this blog set up for about half a year now. Unfortunately, my sense of personal initiative has often been precluded by my innate sense of procrastination. But, I recently felt that it was only fair that, as a heavy consumer of other people's food blogs, I should be accountable for producing one of my own. So here it is at last!
MY PHILOSOPHY: When it comes to food, I can often come across as a pretentious asshole. In fact, when extolling the virtues of Italian gelato to the crap they serve at college dining halls, my friend dubbed me the unofficial "food snob." Can I help it that I won't willingly concede my body as somebody's waste disposal system?
That aside, I quote a passage from Mr. Steingarten's book The Man Who Ate Everything: "...modern science has shown chubby people to be more discriminating and discerning than our skinny neighbors, at least at the dinner table. If you take away their food for twenty-four hours, skinny people will breathlessly devour whatever you put in front of them. We, in contrast, will still pick and choose, eating only food we normally enjoy and rejecting what we normally find distasteful. One reason for this is that chubby eaters are rarely truly hungry. We simply have abnormally generous appetites" (p. 121).
Therein lies my (and every other foodie's) dilemma. Unlike the majority of people who willingly shovel any slop put in front of them as a means of satisfying their hunger--hunger as some default, biological mechanism--I eat to satisfy something more personal. Hunger for most people is an obstacle to their day to day lives. For me, hunger is something that my appetite opportunistically seizes as chance to indulge itself. Hunger demands food, my appetite savors it. Suffice it to say, my appetite usually outlasts my hunger which is, in essence, my greatest weakness.
But in my weakness also lies my strength: my ability to discern between what I will eat and what I won't eat. I eat because I want to eat, not necessarily because I need to eat. My desire for food is not controlled by my body, but by my mind........
This leads me to one obnoxious habit I have that often annoys the hell out of my parents and friends: I tend to contemplate every meal with exactitude. I am often plagued by my own indecision, turning the simplest task of choosing what to eat for breakfast or where to eat for dinner or whether or not to get a cappuccino versus an espresso into an hour long (sometimes more) ordeal.
For the most part, I keep my obsessions to myself. But, once in a while, I cannot help but interfere with the laxity with which a friend or acquaintance approaches his next meal. It pains me to see my friends subjecting their appetite to gray meats, limp veggies, and boiled hot dogs with plastic cheese sauce. The appetite begs for something grand, something indulgent, something beautiful.....and they stifle it with some greasy black mush you could scrape off the back of your tire (I am reminded of beef wonderbites served by my high school cafeteria which gave me the worst case of indigestion).
Picture: Nacho "cheese"??? I don't think so!
But, what you eat is your decision. And what I eat is my decision. Don't like the fact that I reject your dining hall crap for something more palatable? Deal with it.
(Of course, I mean that in the nicest way possible.)
MY PHILOSOPHY: When it comes to food, I can often come across as a pretentious asshole. In fact, when extolling the virtues of Italian gelato to the crap they serve at college dining halls, my friend dubbed me the unofficial "food snob." Can I help it that I won't willingly concede my body as somebody's waste disposal system?
That aside, I quote a passage from Mr. Steingarten's book The Man Who Ate Everything: "...modern science has shown chubby people to be more discriminating and discerning than our skinny neighbors, at least at the dinner table. If you take away their food for twenty-four hours, skinny people will breathlessly devour whatever you put in front of them. We, in contrast, will still pick and choose, eating only food we normally enjoy and rejecting what we normally find distasteful. One reason for this is that chubby eaters are rarely truly hungry. We simply have abnormally generous appetites" (p. 121).
Therein lies my (and every other foodie's) dilemma. Unlike the majority of people who willingly shovel any slop put in front of them as a means of satisfying their hunger--hunger as some default, biological mechanism--I eat to satisfy something more personal. Hunger for most people is an obstacle to their day to day lives. For me, hunger is something that my appetite opportunistically seizes as chance to indulge itself. Hunger demands food, my appetite savors it. Suffice it to say, my appetite usually outlasts my hunger which is, in essence, my greatest weakness.
But in my weakness also lies my strength: my ability to discern between what I will eat and what I won't eat. I eat because I want to eat, not necessarily because I need to eat. My desire for food is not controlled by my body, but by my mind........
This leads me to one obnoxious habit I have that often annoys the hell out of my parents and friends: I tend to contemplate every meal with exactitude. I am often plagued by my own indecision, turning the simplest task of choosing what to eat for breakfast or where to eat for dinner or whether or not to get a cappuccino versus an espresso into an hour long (sometimes more) ordeal.
For the most part, I keep my obsessions to myself. But, once in a while, I cannot help but interfere with the laxity with which a friend or acquaintance approaches his next meal. It pains me to see my friends subjecting their appetite to gray meats, limp veggies, and boiled hot dogs with plastic cheese sauce. The appetite begs for something grand, something indulgent, something beautiful.....and they stifle it with some greasy black mush you could scrape off the back of your tire (I am reminded of beef wonderbites served by my high school cafeteria which gave me the worst case of indigestion).
Picture: Nacho "cheese"??? I don't think so! But, what you eat is your decision. And what I eat is my decision. Don't like the fact that I reject your dining hall crap for something more palatable? Deal with it.
(Of course, I mean that in the nicest way possible.)
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