in-tu-i-tion n. 1.a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. b. Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight. 2. A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

FASCINATING!? While out to dinner with our friend Debbie, she brought up the topic of intuitive food preparation. This is really amazing, groundbreaking stuff that probably few people have ever seriously attempted. Now, Wendi has discussed intuitive eating many times here on the blog in the past. Intuitive eating is basically when you get in touch with those "perceptive insights" mentioned above -- a kind of communication with your own body in which you just "know" that you should eat a certain food. Ever, say, walk past a large display of apples and simply know that eating one would make you feel good? That's intuition.

Most people never spend time getting in touch with this faculty. To apply it to eating is wonderful. To apply it to food preparation, to the level Debbie does, is ... just, wow! ?We were fascinated when she first told us what she does while preparing food -- and just knew you'd be fascinated as well. Take a look:

As we said in yesterday's "Stinky Durian" post, Debbie is going to be working at the Tree of Life. We wonder if they'll be open to her "cooking without looking" approach toward food preparation !? If you're visiting 'the Tree,' be sure to say hello to Debbie. If you'd like to connect with Debbie, her email is NakedFood [at] Gmail.com. (Thanks for the interview, Debbie!)