Cooking and Connecting with Food

‘You can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat.’ – John Irving

Where is your mind when you're cooking?

Are you going back over the day's events or perhaps you're thinking through your plans for the next day as you put the rice or pasta on? Perhaps you feel that at the end of the day preparing and making a meal is just one more chore, one more demand on your time.

And yet preparing and cooking can be meditative. Cooking provides an opportunity to be present, mindful and aware, as opposed to being distracted, stressed or overwhelmed.

Cooking is an opportunity to understand what it means to be in the here and now, with a sense of patience and appreciation, an opportunity to connect with the food that you eat.

Once you understand how to cook mindfully, you can repeat the experience every time you prepare and cook a meal.