Sometimes a banana is just a banana. 11 Feb 08

I’ve already written a bit here about my food philosophy for which I owe a massive debt to writers like Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle and Barbara Kingsolver: Eat food you like, and like the food you eat. Eat real food, not processed food-esque things. Try to eat seasonally, sustainably and humanely. Luckily, local, fresh organically grown produce, humanely raised animals and fresh eggs and milk taste way better than their SuperMegaHyperMart counterparts, so it’s not difficult to eat this way and love what you eat. (Assuming that you have the time and disposable income to find these foods and prepare them, which is a whole ‘nother ball of wax. One blog keeps me busy enough.)

There’s another important piece of my food philosophy: eating intuitively. Here, I owe an equally huge debt to bloggers like Kate Harding over at Shapely Prose. When you eat intuitively, you eat what your body wants when your body wants it, and you don’t assign moral value to food. This might sound like a pretty obvious thing, and for some people it is (If you’re one of those people, confound you! <shaking fist> You don’t know how good you have it!).

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