The key here is to stay away from anything fancy. No one wants a candle lit dinner for one or a feast to savour by yourself. It's like drinking alone, largely frowned upon by polite society. Simplicity is the theme.
Portion size and ease of creation also hold sway in this underutilized skill. It's few that can truly enjoy the simple art of eating alone. It takes a strong person to walk the line between gluttony and austerity that eating alone demands. It's too easy to live on the greasy portions of McDonalds or slip into a rut of beans on rice when one eats alone. This takes the joy out of life. One must learn how to enjoy food without conversation.
Portion control becomes difficult as one lacks the conversation to slow down the intake of the food. Thus one might finish, and not feeling full eat something more only to feel overly full half and hour later, or, on the flip side, one might quit eating while still a little hungry anticipating this reaction of his belly, but then a half hour after he has finished his meal his stomach still growls and he is forced into scavenging in the kitchen for something to fill the corners.
Some would argue that this art is useless and company and food don't actually have anything to do with each other. But I disagree eating with people is natural, eating alone must be learned.
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