The Sweet Taste of Desserts and the Way It Can Open Your Horizons by Yoav Shai
Some things will never change, no matter how much we grow and look at the world surrounding us in a sarcastic point of view. Just open your eyes and you will find the things that takes you back to the innocent days of your childhood. The scent of fresh fruits, the taste of the air after a stormy weather, the feel of your skin after a warm wind catches your breath, the sound of a newly sprouting flower. These are just a few of the sensual feelings that draws you back in time to wake you from the unexciting times, when every new sensation was new, sharp as a knife.
During the long years of our growing stages, we tend to lose the ability to enjoy our senses the way we did as children. This is the cause of way we are socialized and educated into the full grown, productive members of the society, leaving them emotionally maimed, like trained dogs who lost their ability to express their feelings with a simple bark.
The only sense that in some way keeps its connection to our emotional state of mind is the taste sense. But even this is not quite correct. The one taste that really connect us to the childhood is the sweet liberating taste of a high quality dessert. Not every sweet candy could do the trick. If you really want to kick start your senses you would have to choose something more than just the plain lollypop. This is due to the extant use of artificial sweeteners in the commercial candies. In homemade desserts and in the ones served in fine restaurants, in the other hand, you would see more and more use in the good old fashioned sugar, which gives your taste bulbs the exact push it needs to boost you up to high levels of ecstatic consciousness.
This is one of reasons we see in the past few years what you can call "the revival of home cooking". More and more people start to realize that in the past decades they have lost the control of what they enter their bodies, and that there are consequences. The internet helped a lot in this new trend of home cooking. Today, more than ever, it is easy to find any recipe you like in a matter of seconds, and thus opening the world of cooking to ones who had never practiced such an exciting experience.
All you have to do is just look for the dessert you would like to try, and you could make it in no time. Craving for a sweet old fashioned black forest cake? Got an itch for a Spanish Churros recipe? Woke up with an urge for a strawberry creme brulee? All you have to do is look it up, get the right ingredients and surprise yourself while finding out how easy it is to make your own desserts. You would be surprised even more when you first taste your own making and rediscover the enjoyable senses long lost.
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