Jul 8, 2015 09:00 PM
(This post was last modified: Jul 8, 2015 09:23 PM by Magical Realist.)
Quite literally the miracle of transubstantiation--a sensual and elemental merging of our physicality with an inserted foreign substance. We chew up the matter and dissolve it in our warm saliva, conjuring the internal chemical phenomenality of the food itself. The saltiness--in it's inherent craving for more water to dilute itself. The sweetness--a sticky gooey way of shocking our brain into pure ecstasy. The way fish DOESN'T taste like how it smells. The chilling chalky tang of citrus in a mere drop of cranberry juice. That undefinable grassy creaminess of salted avocado. How amazing this talent of human beings to create and evoke flavor from mixtures of cooked matter. The evolution of tasting ranging from cheeses and pasteries to wines and coffees. With eating we get to feel matter from the inside, no longer holding it or looking at it as an objective thing. It becomes one with our being, as satiating and enrapturing to our appetite as any aesthetic ideal ever COULD be.
