Nutrition is about what feeds the body. Nourishment includes that and what feeds the soul, the spirit. One affects the other. How can we nourish our soul if our body is starving for what is good for it ? How can we nourish our body if our soul is starving for what is good for it ??
I see my job as a personal chef primarily to provide the nourishment for the body, yet it is impossible to ignore the other. For me, providing a busy family or an ill person with nutrition is an act of nourishing MY soul. When I feed you, it feeds me in a beautiful way. When I cook for you, alchemy happens. When I cook with love and happiness, that energy finds its way into the food and when you eat it, into you. Food cooked with love tastes better. Food cooked in a clean, beautiful kitchen tastes better. Food raised with love tastes better. Food cooked in chaos creates chaos in your body. I always try to cook with consciousness, as a prayer as it were.
Some books that I love that address these issues are If the Buddha Came to Dinner by Hale Sophia Schatz and Fit Soul, Fit Body by Brant Secunda and Mark Allen.
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