“To Live, you must
eat. To eat, you must live!"
The French coined this phrase, and their reasoning is right.
In my opinion, the full course meal is the "raison
d'etre" or the reason to embrace life. Like the French, I believe it is
compulsory to remain at the dinner table for some three hours.
When I was a little girl, my family was very poor.
Sometimes, we didn't have "enough" to eat--to truly feel full and
satisfied.
So, when my brothers and I were young, we used to say that in
the future, we will eat with "fork, spoon and knife". We ate with
spoons only and to us that was a symbol of our poverty. We thought it would be
amusing to invent a phrase that would not only describe our situation, but
predict our bountiful futures.
Today, I am no longer poor, but my heart remains close to
the heart of those whose souls are rich, though their lifestyles may be mired
in poverty. My joy is in knowing that as I eat with "fork, spoon and
knife" so do others because of my personal & my company's commitment
to charitable organizations. We give as generously as we can to many of these
organizations who do the day-to-day work: FEED, Women for Women International,
Charity Water and World Food Programme to name a few.
I went from adoring the beautiful foods in magazines to
enjoying the creative expression in food preparation. I celebrate from the
moment I enter the grocery store to the moment we say "let's eat!"
and my family and friends know that for me this is my purest expression of the
love I feel for them.
I see a future, in about two years from these
"today's" when I will be an owner of a small in, in my village
Home-Back Home in Antigua.
I see the smiles on the faces of my guests and I hear the
words in the wind that expand my heart. "Quand on mange Chez Monique, on
mange un morceau d'amour!" When you eat a Monique's Place, you eat a
morsel of love.
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