Food Snob #1: Food or Fuel

Philosophers have called death the great equalizer. Nope: it’s food. As my grandmother in Jersey used to say, “Ya gotta eat”, and she was right. Americans spend around $2,500 a year on out-of-home food, meaning that we are either a society of culinary adventurers or just plain too lazy to cook. Hopefully, you end up somewhere in the middle. The fact remains that we all face the biological imperative to eat, often relying on our taste buds to guide us to our next main course. But the eternal question remains: Food or Fuel? That question can be broken down even further to a more eloquent and important question: Dining or Eating? Whether you’re cooking a great meal at home or trying that cool new brasserie down the street, always opt for dining: it is the enjoyment of each bite. Eating for fuel is like sitting behind a concrete post in a movie theater: you get the general essence, but you never really enjoy it as much as you could.