My Food, My Life

Once upon a time there existed only 2 kind of food – one that you loooove and the one that you didn’t love but simply had to eat because choice had not seeped into our plates back then.

The food that we loved comprised of sweets, my favorite sabzi, my favorite fish curry, my favorite prawns fry etc etc, you get the deal.

The one that I did’nt like, consisted of methi, palak, capsicum basically green leaves.

Today I somehow find myself at multiple cross roads as I try to look at food from the western/scientific point of view.

 --->carbs
 --->protein
 --->fat
      --->good fat
      --->bad fat
      --->saturated fat
      --->unsaturated fat
----->veggies
---------------->>>>>>>>>> Any other category of it !! 


              

It also has numeric category, because apparently food != happiness

Food == calories == Mathematical model

Roti = 123 Kcal
Chalwal. 1 bowl  = 150 kcal
dal = 1 cup = 80 kcal

And apparently we need 1200 Kcal for survival.

This shift in perspective has gotten to me.

This shift in the axis has gotten me all ruffled up.

How is food simply a number? How are you going to quantify the smell of hot piping ghee poured on a Puranpoli/holige as 123kcal of saturated fat?

How can hot onion pakoda on a rainly day be 250kcal of oily food?

How have we left all the science of age old tradition and substituted with this new era of misinformation?

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not eaten well.” 
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

What “Modern food science” tells us that chemically examined human cells consists of C, O, H, N and S but what it conveniently doesn’t tell you that no amount of C, O, H, N and S put together will constitute life.

Food, ladies and gentlemen defines you, it shapes your life, your thoughts, your individuality.

Its one common force that runs throught the 3 plains of mind, matter and spirit.

“Food Science” that fails to look into the nature of life and its background & tries to explain away this intelligent , living force as the product of mathematical equation is no science at all.

Food is not life but life would not exist without food.

Grazia & Salute,

Sonam Powar