Without much conscious effort, I've changed my eating habits. I am a firm believer that you train your taste buds. The fastest way is to hold out as long as you can. When you're slightly starving, everything tastes a bit better. When I first moved to Japan and all I could find to eat had eyeballs, I very quickly developed a taste for eyeballs ( Read more... )

Maui has no shortage of health food stores, and I often grab some kind of tofu-based lunch at the hot bar or organic, preservative-free fig newtons off the shelf. And I prefer that kind of food - not just because I know it's better for me, but because it TASTES LIKE FOOD. I like when my food actually tastes like, at one point, it was in the earth ( Read more... )