Resources & Reading

Quotes that inspired us and were instrumental in the creation of this piece:

Transformational nourishment means that our bodies, hearts, minds, and spirits are open and willing to take in the nourishment that’s offered.”

from If the Buddha Came to Dinner

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, “Woo hoo, what a ride!”

– Anonymous

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

– Luciano Pavarotti

Some people eat to have the strength to study the word of God. Others, more spiritually aware, study the word of God in order to know how to eat. Eating is an act of holiness. It requires full presence of mind.”

– Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

Eating with the fullest pleasure — pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance — is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.”

– Poet Wendell Berry