[ In restaurants ] Introducing SĒN Baltimore's new food and dining blogger... I read today that “common sense shows that human life is short-lived and that it is best to make of our brier sojourn on this Earth something that is useful to oneself and others,”-his holiness the Dalai Lama.
       
That seems like a great place to start a meditation, more specifically a meditation on food. All of us through the course of living collect all sorts of distractions.  We are like magnets attracting images, sounds, insights, thoughts, flavors, smells, all sorts of senses.  It’s truly a wonder that all our minds don’t just explode from the sensory overload.  It’s hard to sort out what nuggets are worth hanging on to.  This seems true concerning food, the stuff we’re made of.  People sell food just like they sell everything else.  They come at you from all different angles, try this bite, it’ll give you a culinary organism, go to this “it” spot and “poof!” you we be transformed like Cinderella, making you sophisticated & charming.  Not to mention you’ll get a few IQ points for choosing that spot.  The jargon, the science, the subjective nature of good taste make the culinary world a mystical one. ...read more.