Taste

Every day, if we have the resources to do so, we eat three (or sometimes more!) meals. So many flavors passing through our senses – but are we paying any attention to their complexity, savoring their diversity, taking pleasure in our capacity to sense them? If not, now’s a perfect time to start! Our relationship with food can be multilayered and sometimes fraught with the cultural and social messages we’ve absorbed over the years. It’s important to slow down our inner monologue enough to re-experience the simple joy of eating attentively. This challenge offers a chance to reconnect with your senses of smell and taste, and rediscover the pleasures of nourishing yourself.

 

Habit:
Try a new food or combination of foods
Enjoy a familiar food or meal with attention

 

Daily:
Savor a Flavor with Rapt Attention

 

To Do:
Share something tasty with someone you like
Create something about food or flavor (a recipe, photo, poem, essay, whatever!)

 

Reflection:
July’s challenge was fun for me. I love to cook, I love to eat, and I have a pretty healthy relationship with food. For my creation, I invented a Popsicle/ice cream recipe out of coconut milk, chocolate syrup, and bananas. Homemade pops are something I grew up with (usually juice or fruit punch) and have elaborated on (adding chunks of fruit, using smoothie leftovers) as an adult. My pop molds are by Tovolo and make star-shaped popsicles!

Pictured below is something I perfected last summer and have been making a lot this year too – baked summer squash and eggplant with cherry tomato halves. 🙂