What type of potato chips do you like? What style of bread do you prefer? How do you like ochro (okra) to be cut if you are to eat it?
We eat with our eyes long before the food actually touches our lips. The appearance of food shapes our attraction to it and our willingness to eat it. Think about it. Cast your mind back to when you were growing up and how certain things were prepared and presented. Consider children, and how in order to get them to eat certain things, you have to cut them into particular shapes or sizes to entice them to eat. As adults, some of us have grown up only knowing one way to cut and prepare a particular ingredient to be cooked, employing a specific technique. Sometimes we are turned off by those things because we don’t find them appealing. But then, through travel, exploration, eating at the homes of friends and families, we notice they prepare those same ingredients, using the same cooking technique, however, the shape, the cut, the size, is different, and suddenly we can’t seem to get enough of this thing. It is not that it tastes different, it is just shaped and cut differently.
