October 05, 2004
Season to taste?
 It's perfectly natural that what your body needs is reflected in what tastes good to you, but it's still pretty cool when you experience it in action. For the last few days, I've been really craving salt, as I think my body was low on this resource. I was out a lot in the strong California sun, but the air was chilly, so I didn't realize as much what was happening as I might have if it was HOT out. For instance, I was horking down Lay's potato chips like they were going out of style, but they didn't taste at ALL salty to me, and my lips never began to shrivel. (And John assures me that the Lay's taste as they usually do to him, so that's my 'proof' that it's not the chips themselves.) Usually I eat a handful and have had enough, but not today. I also had a grilled cheese sandwich, and the (salt involved) cheese just really hit the spot.
On the flip side, I haven't had much interest in sweets at ALL, which is wrong, especially when one has a tin full of chocolates less than an arm's length away - heh. Even yesterday, what sweets I did have were oddly unsatisfying.
In the general sense, I still find it odd when people insist that, say, a soup is too salty or too bland, without having any clue that it's THEM or that objectivity isn't actually POSSIBLE with food, and that it's not necessarily the cook's shortcoming, but their own body's.
posted by Kristen at 2:53 PM
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