| Slow Food |
We are all well versed about fast food. Time will not be
wasted here on this topic.
Brothers and sisters, if you cook slowly, you will live slowly;
and if you live slowly, you will live better.
Take your time to shop for fresh food, and then chop and mix
and stir. Good food takes time. it can't be fast. While you’re
cooking, you can be doing all sorts of things like talking to
your family, working on it with them. It can become one
fantastic nightly family art project using all the colors,
shapes, mixtures, and experiments and, wow, what a blast to
make meatballs from scratch. How cool is that? Meatballs,
glorious balls of meat, sprinkled with a treasure trove of fresh
ingredients from the produce aisle, not frozen, like garlic,
onion, parsley, and farm eggs. Herbs minced with your one
favorite knife that has become your friend, your old reliable
knife friend who is always there when needed and will never
let you down.
Mix this all together and blend it with your own hands, feeling
it squish through your fingers. This is cooking. This is food.
This is a creation. This is dinner—your dinner, our dinner, the
way dinner was meant to be. Then let those big ol' meatballs
simmer and cook in tomato sauce.
Cook slowly; eat slowly; live slowly. Humans are not
designed for fast food. Fast food is not good for the soul.
Cook slowly as you cast an aura of love around your kitchen,
and this love will travel with all the souls of your life.
wasted here on this topic.
Brothers and sisters, if you cook slowly, you will live slowly;
and if you live slowly, you will live better.
Take your time to shop for fresh food, and then chop and mix
and stir. Good food takes time. it can't be fast. While you’re
cooking, you can be doing all sorts of things like talking to
your family, working on it with them. It can become one
fantastic nightly family art project using all the colors,
shapes, mixtures, and experiments and, wow, what a blast to
make meatballs from scratch. How cool is that? Meatballs,
glorious balls of meat, sprinkled with a treasure trove of fresh
ingredients from the produce aisle, not frozen, like garlic,
onion, parsley, and farm eggs. Herbs minced with your one
favorite knife that has become your friend, your old reliable
knife friend who is always there when needed and will never
let you down.
Mix this all together and blend it with your own hands, feeling
it squish through your fingers. This is cooking. This is food.
This is a creation. This is dinner—your dinner, our dinner, the
way dinner was meant to be. Then let those big ol' meatballs
simmer and cook in tomato sauce.
Cook slowly; eat slowly; live slowly. Humans are not
designed for fast food. Fast food is not good for the soul.
Cook slowly as you cast an aura of love around your kitchen,
and this love will travel with all the souls of your life.
© 2007 by Michael Domino
by Michael Domino
Kitchen
January 24, 2008
January 24, 2008