FatBlogger has a truly thought-provoking entry on the many roles that food plays in our lives.

Food is in the Garden of Eden, forbidden fruit, crunchy delicious Red Delicious. Don’t eat from the Tree of Knowledge…or nutritional labels. God was right, some things we just don’t want to know.

Food is both deceiving and up-front, both friend and foe, food is a killer of dreams… and African babies (and Mid-Atlantic Appalachian babies too).

Food saves all. I’m hungry. What is food to you?

Food is my best friend and my worst enemy. It’s my mother’s constant nagging about my weight and her needling to have seconds of her pecan pie. It’s the silencer of my son’s constant talking and the trigger for wonderful talks at our family table. Food is what I deny myself routinely while showing my love to my family as I cook for them.

I think it was Audrey Hepburn who once said how much she resented food because it’s something we seek to control our relationship with while not ever being able to actually live without.

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