IN PRAISE OF TASTEBUDS

IN PRAISE OF TASTEBUDS Among our senses, the sense of taste is the one most decried as overbearing, fatuous, shameful, when it is the most pleasurable ! How strange! No one in any culture disparages sight, scent, hearing, touch, nor intuition. But taste gets a bum rap. Taste is abused. Yet taste tells us what is good to eat and what is not. Persons who don't eat die whether they starve to death voluntarily or not. Sick people refuse food, when they are really, really sick. The very scent of food is revolting to them. They have acquired an aftertaste, for real! They taste their hereafter! Appetite is a gift from God. It tells us when to eat, what to eat, to live. In our diet-happy era, when size is so enormously determinative of our love lives , career ambitions, and self-concepts, don't despise taste. Don't sacrifice taste for something else, unless one must eat blandly, just to stay alive! For eating is one of life's greatest pleasures. That is why we praise God and give thanks for our many blessings before any eating. Who's prayed before sex ? I have never prayed before sex! After many times! Before never!