D2:
I
think it's also important to have things that are very fresh. I have learned
that if, for example, flour is just ground, it's much more nutritious, even
if you just keep it for a few hours.
M:
Yes,
it's true. In India, for example, when I tasted chapatis (Indian flat bread)
there, they tasted better than here, because they had ground the flour with
a stone mortar. They do it every day, or maybe every couple of days; they
don't do it in big lots. They do it at home, just a little quantity, enough
for one or two days, or one or two meals. And it tastes like heaven.
Also,
in Italy, for example, I ate spaghetti there, and it tastes different than
what I have eaten here in any pizza restaurant. Rarely can you find good
spaghetti. That's the difference.
In
Singapore, I had one favorite restaurant. Sometimes I went there to eat
pizza, and sometimes I could eat two or three pizzas, the thin type, called
"margarita". It's very thin and small, but it is very nice. I
don't know why it has the same look as the ones in other restaurants, but
in other places it does not taste as good. So I asked them, "What do
you do with your pizza? How do you make it?" And the cook said, "Oh,
we don't have this pizza today." I said, "Why is that?" and
he said, "Because the flour didn't come yet." They imported the
flour from Italy, the kind that is good. That place is good, and that's
why the quality is always the same. It's not just like anything else. Maybe
in that region they grow organic flour, or it's especially good in that
region, so they keep shipping it in. And if they don't have the flour, they
don't make that margarita pizza. That's how I found out that it had to be
different.
When
I was in Germany and was married, my ex-husband and I grew tomatoes. And
the tomatoes were just crawling on the ground because there were so many
of them that they had to crawl on the ground. They could not stand up anymore.
We gave the plants a lot of 'legs' but the tomatoes were still crawling
there. There was so much fruit, and it tasted so good!
And
when I was younger, as a kid, I also grew vegetables for fun. I grew tomatoes,
and they also tasted very good. I can hardly find such tasty tomatoes anymore.
Even though, now, they grow them bigger than my tomatoes, they don't taste
as good; there is no fragrance. There is something in the tomato that makes
you like it so much. Some tomatoes taste just like water. It could be the
organic methods and the love that you put into it. So you should be careful
about what you eat, because it also affects your meditation, according to
our experiences.
