you need to eat
with your hands
to taste life
you need to touch life
you need to tear it apart
get to the very middle
get to the heart
feel it beat
understand when it rushes
and when it slows
understand when it says stop
and when it says go
you need to eat with your hands
to love
life
to
know.
- mia moretti.
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I'm not talking about a sandwich or pizza. Balling up sticky rice and scooping up a bite of Som Tum. Tearing off the tail of a crawfish and pressing just right on the end to push out the meat. Heck, even stripping every bit of flesh off a bone-in chicken wing.
It's a ritual that slows and forces appreciation for the food.
Mar 4, 2024
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tearing them apart with your hands and poppin them down your gullet like a squirrel or small bird. makes you feel in tune with a more primal form of eating
Nov 7, 2023
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i think that we've invented 2 much stuff that mediates our interaction with the world.
the other day i was despairing because i'd brought a passionfruit to the beach as a post-snorkel snack but had forgotten to bring a knife to cut it open or a spoon to eat it with, and i was sooo close to giving up and putting it back in2 my bag. but then then i remembered that i have teeth, and fingers, and a tongue!!!! and i tore into the skin with my canines!!! the juice came flooding out straight into my mouth and i got so sticky and it was the best passionfruit ive ever had, and i so nearly just didn't get to experience that, because i'd so almost forgotten that i'm an animal!!! with built in fruit-opening tools!!!!
p.s. this rec is doubling as a tear into a passionfruit with ur teeth rec, because it was quite frankly euphoric. sensual, even
Apr 20, 2024
