One cannot think well, love well, and sleep well, if one has
not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A
Room of One's Own
Woolf has very aptly condensed the importance of food in
this one sentence. Nothing in life happens the right way if food is neglected.
Food has a very omnipotent role to play in our lives. And it is, at the same
time, very omnipresent in the language we speak.
Language is being constantly modified and beautified by
food. Food garnishes the language that one uses with so much love and spice
that one can only crave for more.
Food nourishes our thoughts. While worries go down better
with soup, too many cooks can spoil the broth. Though we thought about of
everything from soup to nuts, we never realised that we had our fingers in too
many pies. Did we chew off more than we could eat? We treaded on eggshells
during the project so that we would not have egg on our faces at the end of it.
We wanted to keep our cake and have it too.
Food nourishes the heart too. So while your loved one can be as sweet as honey,
your home can be as warm as toast even on a rainy day. The ambience may just
make you go nutty as a fruit cake or simply spend the rest of the day as couch
potatoes! Either way you would not cry over spilt milk.
Food nourishes the body. That of course is its main job. And
language embellishes this role too. So you have a taste for the fine arts while
the icing on the cake is the award you got for your passion in music .And oh
yes, in your salad days you stewed upon quite a few things though finally you
did learn which side of the bread is buttered. And on your way you have also
figured out that one man’s meat is another poison while time and again you may
have jumped from the fire into the frying pan while trying to save your bacon.
So while you sink your teeth into this, let’s acknowledge that variety is the spice of life. Every endeavour will have its teething troubles, at times may make you feel as if it is a pie in the sky but the truth remains that there is nothing such as a free lunch. You may have to polish the apple to whet your appetite to achieve success.
