We ate lunch out today, at a Thai restaurant that just recently opened in our town. It was a wonderful experience -- the food was well prepared, well seasoned, and well presented, the service was great and the atmosphere was pleasing.
The food. Fresh well treated ingredients, carefully cooked and with every flavour just right to sing in the mouth. The classic Thai trio of sweet sour and salty was in full play.
Good food is a pleasure in it's own right, but the happiness it gives me goes beyond the pleasure of the physical. I enjoy understanding my food - knowing why the broccoli is that particular shade of pure brilliant emerald green, why the tiny clams are ruffled along the edges, why they are tiny. I enjoy seeing high quality ingredients cooked with care and respect so that they shine with their own qualities.
To know my food, and to know that it is well cooked, and that the person cooking it knew it, and knew how to cook it well, and did so.
Good food makes me happy.
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