Day 19: Food
I am grateful for food and not just because it’s required for survival or gives me energy, but because it’s something that can truly be enjoyed in life. There are so many different ethnicities of foods, so many different dishes, and so many different twists to put on each dish. Two people can make the same recipe, and they’ll taste different. Food is something that can comfort, shock, torture, and invoke nostalgia.
Most importantly, food speaks. It tells a cook how to make it. It tells the chef how to spice it up. It tells the consumer a story. Each dish has origin and meaning, explained from the mix of flavors and ingredients used. Food is the fastest way to learn about someone. What they eat and what they cook tells us who they are. It tells us their heritage. Food, as simple as it may seem, is so much more meaningful than we may ever understand and I’m so grateful for it (even when I indulge too much and have to spend extra time at the gym. :p)
List of Thanks
Day 1: Family
Day 2: Music
Day 3: Health
Day 4: Coffee
Day 5: Friends
Day 6: Language
Day 7: Pets
Day 8: Stories
Day 9: Fire
Day 10: Technology
Day 11: Snow
Day 12: Pain
Day 13: Diversity
Day 14: Nature
Day 15: Education
Day 16: Time
Day 17: Color
Day 18: Handwritten Letters
Melanie Noell Bernard 