eat

my favorite thing to do is eat.  if you've known me for more than an hour, this is something you've already figured out.  part three of the move, learn, eat series is .. well .. eat.


i think you'll find this video a bit less inspirational than the first two - if you take it at face value.  if you really sit and think into it, though, it tells an amazing story.  i feel that a culture's cuisine tells a lot about their people, customs, and the climate... it tells the part of the story that words can't.


food also has an amazing way of making you feel home.  i could be almost anywhere in the world enjoying a great meal, and somehow i feel home.  i can sense myself sitting in my kitchen with the oven on, the stove on, mixing bowls and cutting boards covering every countertop, momma mac cooking up an 8 course meal for the 26 people that have come by for the night, and i can sense the way this is the same in almost any part of the world.


cuisine really is such a paramount part of society.  we celebrate with it, we mourn with it, we gather for it, we talk about it; everything we do has some connection to eating, or at least it does for me.  in most cultures, eating is so much more than what you do to stay alive (i say most because i'm very aware that there are a handful that do just eat to live... i feel bad for them).



EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.


an unbelievable documentary of food around the globe.  overall, it made me jealous.  and hungry.


xox k