Your Mother’s Food Really


By Denise Linn


When I was ill as a child, my mother gave me cherry-flavored Jell-O. She told me it would make me better, and honestly I felt so much better after eating my magic Jell-O. It worked! Invoking a mother’s healing love into a dish, however, isn’t unique to my mother. Maybe your mother or grandmother made you a special chicken soup or other favorite dish as a healing balm when you were a child.


In many cultures, throughout the world, it’s said that a mother’s love is transferred into her


October/November 2012


cooking. It’s believed that the love she feels for her family infuses her food, and as result, her meals satisfy her children more profoundly than meals cooked by anyone else. Perhaps you’ve even experienced this with your own family. Maybe you’ve “tasted” the love (or anger) in a meal. If so, you understand that eating is more than ingesting nutrients. In the deepest sense, it’s a palpable interaction with the entire universe.


Have you ever gone into a restaurant feeling well and then after the meal become angry


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