Cibare Food and Drinks Magazine Issue 10

ingly viewed as a faff, an effort, just another thing you have to do because EVERYONE in the family asks what’s for dinner, every, single, day, without FAIL. Which is fine if you have time and limitless money to buy good produce.

But these days the mantra is all about convenience and speed or, of course, weight loss. There are food services supposed to make our lives easier, preying on our uselessness and intention to be organised but failing miserably. The company that delivers everything you need to prepare 5 healthy weight-friendly meals a week. The company that actually prepares, cooks and delivers them to your door: organic, fresh but expensive. Sustainable? Probably not. And is that an enjoyable way to consume food forever?

Probably not.

The thing is, our need to eat and drink is a basic human function that’s not going anywhere. It’s our essential, our necessity, our mainstay, our celebration. We might as well enjoy it while we can, and we’re so blessed that we can do that. As my mum often says, how boring would life be if we just took a ‘food pill’ which fulfilled and sustained us until the next one?

So, a life without food… What would I do with all that extra time? The planning, the recipe-scouring, the shopping, the savouring and smelling of produce, the inspiration gained from roaming supermarket aisles.

Then the preparation, the compulsory glass of wine to sup as you cook. And then the sharing and nomming, watching your guests’ senses awaken as they’re enveloped in taste sensation, a different experience with every mouthful.

Food and taste is intimate, personal, unique.

Celebrate it and celebrate how lucky we are.

A filmic triumph.

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