Appetite for Awe

"If I could keep pace with the sun it would always be morning"

"Today people want easy jobs, then they want lots of free time,  and then they want lots of money.  They aren't thinking of building their skills."  Run into the monotony and just live to survive.  There is no spice in life.

They say that we eat to live, or can we learn to live again through eating?

I went to Mexico, and many of my reawakening experiences and loving the culture involved food.

He is 85.  He still works about 12 hours a day, both morning and night.  He only has 10 tables in his entire restaurant. He received 3 Michelin stars.  It costs 30,000 yen, about 300 dollars, just to make a reservation.  What creates this awe that he feels towards sushi and others feel when going to his restaurant?

 "                                                                                                                                                      "We are nearest waking when we dream that we dream".  Jiro constantly dreamed of new ideas.  He loved his                                                                                                                                 job and never took it for granted.  He found purpose in it everyday.  Consistency was key.

"Each ingredient has an ideal moment of deliciousness."  His quest was reaching this.  Even after 60 years of cooking sushi he still feels he hasn't reached perfection.

Tita was born on the kitchen table.  Food became her symbol of identity and creativity.  "Tita expresses her passion through food."- Pat Tyner 

The Kitchen was not just her kitchen but her labratory.  Her supressed female voice allowed for expression through food.  She gained her independence through creating meals.

Eat, Pray, Love is one woman's search for rediscovery.  She spends 4 months in Italy eating and enjoying life.

Fodd can create new emotions

Jiro, and other Japanese chefs, believe in umami.  This is a sensation that allows all the tastes to come together.  How to reach that requires dedication, skill, and creativity.

"A person who experiences the sense of taste with far greater intensity than average." -Wikipedia
35% of women have this, while only 15% of men do.

Food goes beyond the feelings of escape or creativity, it also can heal us emtionally and physically.

It connects us to some higher power and at times we can even feel respect for the things we put in our bodies.  Instead of a mundane experience it can become so much more.