A passing thought on the quality of certain foods and eating experiences – they don’t “seem” to do more than fill the tri-diem gap in the belly, they definitely do more. And furthermore, a good meal carries an energy that the average lacklustre plate lacks. All food should contain energy and it does, in the form of kilojoules – but what about the other atoms that feed us, as well as the pleasures of good food that feed life? I am beginning to think that the average plate seems to demand energy instead of replacing it. This is both because the energy of digesting what is poor food is the same as any food, except without the benefit of nutrition, so there’s a deficit; and because the experience and time spent was devoid of pleasure.
All this after lunch at Mariana’s in Stanford, where the plates, the people and the time made the stomach and the soul happy.
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