Taste Everything - For My Friends - The Cooks and The Foodies

Taste everything

The still-warm sweetness of the tart

Let it melt, bloom, linger on your tongue

Lick the spoon

Let the juice run down your wrist

Chop slowly

A handful of herbs

A spoonful of story

A memory from your mother’s kitchen

Let your hands be instruments of devotion 

Gather the ingredients like treasure

The figs, the rosemary, the ginger root

Smell the garlic as it sizzles 

Smile as you peel, stir and season 

Let the wonder in

Let it rise like steam from the pot

Invite wonder to the table 

Set it with soft light and laughter

And your best china

Let the feast become a prayer 

A celebration of what feeds the soul

Eat with your eyes closed

Taste everything 

The ripe, the raw, the roasted

So you don't miss the beauty of one single bite 

Feel -

How even the ordinary when tended

Becomes holy 

Prepare your life like a feast

Feed what feeds you 

Taste your days 

Before they pass you by

By Tanya Cameron