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Stop Shouting!

Did it ever occur to you, that we are shouting at our senses? Look at food over the last 20 or 30 years. It has gotten ultra spicy, ultra oily, ultra greasy, ultra cheesy, ultra bacony, and just plain ultra.
We've done everything we could, to shout at our senses. Some fifty years ago, foods were simple. Things like simple chicken broth, roasted chicken, a simple grilled steak, and plain boiled vegetables with a little butter. Now everything is overly spiced, seasoned, salted, and sauced.

Over time, our taste buds have actually forgotten how to taste. If you watch some of the awful cooking shows on TV, the celebrity short order cooks (aka "chefs") will insist that things that they taste are without flavor. It's not true! Not true at all. It's just that we have deafened our taste buds from all the the seasoning, shouting at them, so we can't really taste anything anymore.  One celeb is even noted for "kicking it up a notch."

Try something. Pick a starting day, and eat as simply as possible, adding only enough seasoning to bring it to a basic level. You'd be surprised at how little seasoning our wonderful, perceptive, terrific taste buds require.

Stop shouting at your senses!!  Keep your food simple, and let your taste buds "hear" your food!

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