APPETITE
It was the American Chef Sherry Yard who said, ‘The appetite starts with the eye’. As a famous TV judge and cookbook author, she would know a lot about presentation and the importance of the visual but she could equally have said that appetite starts with the nose, the mind or with the tummy rumbles. However, we all know that whilst appetite is usually taken to mean a desire for food, it can apply to things besides food such as money, sex, possessions and power. Have you noticed that the more a person craves for something the more they crave?! Then what happens is that the thing that is desired for consumption turns to become the predator and consumes the person. Healthy appetites are a good thing but cravings lead to loss of control and a farewell to satisfaction. A person should be well-satisfied with this plate of food but this would not be true for everyone.
- ‘Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands’ – Ivan Pavlov