My love, The Food
Since my early years on this earth, I was known in my family to be the one who eats, a lot and all the time, I just loved food, all food, any kind of food, and I kept this until my teenage years where of course I denied
this accusation of love for the sake of slimness and beauty sick comparison society forces our girls and women to compete in..
It took me years to remove the suppression and uncover the love: yea, I like food, in fact, I love it.. and guess what, I can be slim and beautiful while still loving and indulging in my food .. this self-realisation gave me the freedom and wings to start my journey and explore food worlds, and as I fell in love with the first cuisine that winked to me, I made this trip to the Ashram, not realising really where I was going and what type of food will I be served there…
Simply, I was coming for an Ayurveda course, so the food is Ayurvedic. If you have my naive brain you will make this expectation, but it was my biggest disappointment as -even though I realise how much effort one puts to make food, any food- the food critic in me woke up and made her review: food is mostly tasteless, overcooked, lacking creativity, made with little love and kind of mixing up everything they had in the fridge.
But how did the food critic survive? well, I had to make choices and compromises, luckily cereals and semi-hard pieces of bread and jam were served, that saved my breakfast/lunch meal, and another warm soup with safe overcooked tasteless vegetable plus desert were my dinner, and in between some fruits or sometimes a sneak out of the ashram with my newly found beautiful French friend/chef to have a Fika (Swedish term for coffee with cake) in a nearby village or visit an ancient castle somewhere in the Loir valley.
My meals became more positive once they decided to move the dining area indoors and close the outdoor season, then the food mattered less as the eating became like eating with a big family, especially when this was compensated with the Ayurvedic cooking class which didn’t disappoint me.
(Part 6)
