As I weigh in as a Lifetime member of Weight Watchers ( 11 years), I am thinking about food. After my monthly weigh in I treat myself to something sweet and special. It is my reward for 30 days of vigilance. Imagine if my addiction was heroin, instead of food?
I do A LOT of cooking. I cook by choice. I like to chop and peel and shop for food. My specialty is using left overs in a creative way. Sometimes the outcome is great. Other times only a good effort. Food is interesting. I like color and texture. I love root vegetables. I am sure I grew all I ate, somewhere in a past life, seed to meal.
I came across this quote in a Weight Watchers booklet, perhaps it will speak to you...
"No one who cooks, cooks alone.
Even at the most solitary, a cook in the kitchen
is surrounded by generations of cooks past, and the
advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom
of cookbook writers"
Laurie Colwin
Finally I share a food story. My neighbor is 94 years young. She is clear of mind, walks everywhere, and does not believe in doctors. She eats plain food, and not much of that. I do share my home baked sweets with her- she likes a sweet treat. One day she was telling my mother and I about a perfect dinner she had the night before. It was a chocolate bar and a cigarette. My mother asked her if it was dark chocolate?
Food, you can't live with it, you can't live without it... sounds like men.
smile at all that you wrote here, but it is so different from my life that it is like visiting a foreign country. Due to health concerns and food intolerances, I have a long list of foods that make me sick or give me pain. I don't want to "cheat" because I do not like pain or hospitals. Thus, food is for life more than anything else, although there are a number of things that I like and enjoy eating. Many spices help make my meals more interesting, and fresh vegetables and fruits have taken on new depths of taste that help my meals too.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, I tend to do a lot of chopping, steaming, and nuking, more than cooking. Cook books are of little interest to me because most of their contents are forbidden. I hate shopping and love convenience, especially if coupled with discounts. I'd rather spend hours doing things other than cooking or shopping or gardening....I must have been a librarian in a past life?
Barbara