Alice Waters agrees.
and not just being a slob. And of course there was plenty of the standard American hand food in my childhood: pizza, sandwiches, tacos.
In fact, hamburgers and pizza and tacos—the most popular foods in America—are intended to be finger foods. And yet, venture out of the accepted handheld food territory, and we all get pretty judgey and uncomfortable. But in a myriad of other cultures, eating with your hands is the norm, as writer Arun Venugopal discusses in this great. In Indian families, he explains, it's customary to take bites of rice and curry, sometimes balling them up with your fingertips, with your right hand. He grew up eating this way, although his family kept the custom confined to their home in Texas, adopting the Western fork when eating out.
I'm convinced that people prone to swiping bites with their hands, to tasting with their hands, and dipping fingers into sauces and dressings, taste it better, enjoy it more, have an overall enhanced eating experience. You're closer to the food. You can hold it up and smell it, feel it, examine it, in addition to tasting it. (This was confirmed in part by learning that Alice Waters likes to eat salad with her fingers.
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