Food for health: stress cooking

19 April 2009

Food for health: stress cooking

Posted by Cecilia under: Culture; Health .

Have you ever had a meal where everything tasted great, but afterwards you just feel heavy and unwell? You can’t explain your unsettled feeling because everything seemed to be perfect.

You may have experienced the consequences of stress cooking.

Stress cooking can be caused by many factors. Wanting to impress your guests with perfection, lacking proper ingredients, burning the meat, or just plain being short on time. Your whole being is tense.

There is a connection between the mood in which we prepare a meal and the effect on the people who eat the meal. When you prepare a meal with friendly and relaxed feelings you can be sure that whoever eats your meal will enjoy it doubly, both while eating it and afterwards.

Every time I see a cooking program, for example the show “Hell’s Kitchen”, which is all about stress cooking I recognize that their cooking is connected to stress, anger and frustration. Cooking like this isn’t fun anymore - not for the cooker and not for the people who have to eat the meal.

The best cooking is filled with fun, friendliness and calmness. Proper attitude is an ingredient that should be placed in every meal.