Food has enhanced my life from the time I was a little girl right up to this day. How food enhances our lives. First I want to take the time to explain how it has enhanced my life and then how it does for many others.

For one thing in our family and probably yours, every holiday revolves around food. We have traditional meals that we make for each holiday and everyone looks forward to it. Everyone has their favorite. Not only is the food so enjoyable but being together is. We have huge gatherings in my family and sit down dinners. When I was young my grandmothers hosted the big holidays and shared them with all my aunts and uncles and cousins. It was a big social event where we all got together and spent quality time. Food enhances the holidays and our lives as it is festive and significant to the occasion. Tradition enhances are lives as does the food that becomes part of the tradition. Even now that my grandmothers have passed we celebrate the same way with the same food.

Food is fun and exciting. It brings pleasure to the senses and a sense of satisfaction that you can only get by eating food. Pleasurable experiences enhance our lives. There are few things in life that bring us as much pleasure as eating does. Grant it there are some people in this world that eat to live, but I think many of us live to eat. If we just ate to live food would be boring. We would not find ways to be creative, we would not have many different recipes and methods of cooking. We would simply just go out and catch or buy a fish most likely throw it on a fire and say something like, food is ready! Most likely without the exclamation.

Take a simple potato, we'd just cook it, boil it or bake it and leave it at that. But instead, we mash them and add milk and butter, maybe sour cream or cheese, chives, garlic we enhance it. We make them scalloped or twice baked, what about potato salad, potato kinishes, or pancakes, homefries and french fries the list goes on and on. We just don't eat it to eat because if we ate to live than all we'd have to do is cook it and eat it to survive. How many of us do that? Take a simple egg, Why not just boil it or eat it raw? By being creative and enhancing the food we enhance our lives we make the experience enjoyable.

Food enhances our lives everyday not just on the holidays. We eat three meals or maybe two, I don't know about you but I look forward to eating. I maybe cooking or maybe going out to a resturant but whatever it is I am

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