Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.
Interpretation
This quote suggests rethinking our relationship with food rather than labeling it as 'healthy' or 'unhealthy'. It's about changing our mindset towards food.
Marcus Samuelsson's quote challenges the conventional terminology surrounding food, particularly the labeling of certain foods as 'healthy'. By proposing to ban the phrase 'healthy food', he advocates for a shift in perspective where we focus on the overall experience and relationship with food rather than divisive categorization. This approach encourages a more holistic understanding of nourishment and enjoyment, promoting a healthier attitude toward eating that transcends simplistic labels.
In practice
During a health and wellness seminar, I shared this quote to encourage participants to rethink their approach to nutrition.
I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it's easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition.
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.
I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.
Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).
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