Michael Pollan in his book Omnivorous Dilemma, quotes this wonderful 1989 essay, Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry. These words still has such a soothing effect, I keep these few of lines from the essay in my wallet.
"Eating with the fullest pleasure-pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance-is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend."
This quite thanksgiving night sans a grandiose meal, these lines still delivers me a high dose of Seratonin.
It's a pleasant coincidence that I am watching the movie Ratatouille now.
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