The delicate sweetness of just-picked vegetables is always worth savoring.
You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less food.
Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when we are eating.
... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
I do quite like rice and beans weirdly, I don't know how or why. For me I always eat my beans first one by one and then savour the rice because it is bloody fantastic.
I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.
After many days of grocery store food, sitting down for a deliberate, slow, expensive eating time can be the best.
I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.
If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.
I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.
I'm a big eater in terms that l love flavor, but I don't like to eat a lot of one thing. I like to eat a little bit.
I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I think there is lot to be said about eating dinner and not having the distraction of the TV.
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
One of life's finest things is enjoying your food.
You cut up a piece of fruit, peel it, put it on a dish, and top it with something fun, and it feels like a real snack, instead of just walking down the street while peeling an orange and eating it: you're not actually taking a minute to enjoy that snack.
Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.
If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true.
If you can't eat incredible food, then what's the point?
When you realize the real pleasure in food comes in the first couple bites, and it diminishes thereafter, that's a kind of reminder to focus on the experience, enjoy those first bites, and as you get into the 20th bite, you're talking calories and not pleasure.
Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.
If we don't focus on when we eat - like, let's say we watch television or something - you eat much more. If you focus on the food - you smell it, you cook it - you're enjoying it already.
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.
