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Culinary Literacy: Why You Should Stop Eating for “Fuel”
We live in the era of the “Bio-Hack.” We have meal replacement shakes, protein bars that taste like chalk, and “productivity bowls” designed to be shoveled into our mouths while we answer emails. We have treated food like gasoline—a necessary but boring input required to keep the machine running. But as an editor, I know that flavor is a language. If you only eat for fuel, you are effectively living your life in “bullet points.” You are getting the information, but you are missing the poetry. 1. The “Sensory Edit” In a world of digital saturation, your sense of taste is one of the few things that cannot be simulated.…