The Order of Things Upon the Plate: A Personal Inquiry into Eating Vegetables Before Bread

The Philosophy of Sequence

There exists in our culture a peculiar assumption that all items upon the plate are equal, that they may be consumed in any arrangement without consequence to the body. This is, I have learned through considerable personal experimentation, a profound error. The body is not a simple vessel into which one may pour contents without regard for their arrangement. It is, rather, a theatre of arrivals, and the order in which substances present themselves to the inner chambers matters enormously. (more…)