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European Baking Ingredients Market Report 2022
Fingerfood 59
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

tastes better when we eat with Many people have
the hands likely depends on what
we happen to be consuming, e.g.,
pizza, pasta, or pastry. There are, written to me to express
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of course, cultural differences to
consider too, after all, the majority
of people in the world currently eat their opinion that food really
with their hands. 17

Anecdotally, many people have does taste better when
written to me to express their
opinion that food really does taste
This intuition was captured by the eaten with the hands.
better when eaten with the hands.
Indian narrator in Yann Martel’s
bestselling novel, The Life of Pi,
who notes that, ‘The first time I his gaze. They froze like criminals My sambar lost its taste.’ 18
went to an Indian restaurant in caught in the act. I didn’t dare lick
Canada I used my fingers. The them. I wiped them guiltily on my So, the next time you find yourself
waiter looked at me critically and napkin. He had no idea how deeply eating a slice of bread or a pastry
said, “Fresh off the boat, are you?” those words wounded me. They item, why not sit back for a moment
I blanched. My fingers, which a were like nails being driven into and consider whether you agree
second before had been taste buds my flesh. I picked up the knife and with the claim from those who
savouring the food a little ahead fork. I had hardly ever used such suggest that the first taste really is
of my mouth, became dirty under instruments. My hands trembled. with the hands. n

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