Mindfulness and savoring 83 fact that we are fortunate enough to be partaking. I do find that an attitude of gratitude distinguishes those who live life, and enjoy their food and wine to the fullest. As we savor it through all our senses we need to then luxuriate in all aspects of the experience. Finally, once it is over we need to reminisce and relive the memories of the experience. Five minutes after you have eaten the food, recall what it tasted like. Are there any lingering tastes in your mouth? Now you might think doing all this is a bit of a chore. Okay, so you don’ t have to get every element of every step right in its fullness to enjoy your food, but it is worth thinking about how to make the most of, not just of your eating experiences, but any of your important life experiences. Most importantly, you will find that after eating your favorite, forbidden, high sacrifice foods, if they have been fully savored, eating smaller portions and resisting seconds will be much easier. This is what the French mean when they talk about how they‘ celebrate’ their food. It is just another way of describing mindfulness. We eat more because we have tasted less. So the goal for all of us is to taste more so that it is easier to eat less. For the chocolate addicts For the chocolate addicts, try this. Go out and purchase some couverture chocolate. This is the best of all chocolate. You can tell couverture chocolate because it will melt on hot days or if left beside a window in the sun. This is because it has the genuine cacao butter left in it. In fact, to qualify as couverture it must contain a minimum of 32 % cacao butter. Because cacao butter is so expensive it is normally removed in the chocolate manufacturing process and replaced with sugar and vegetable oils. Only the best chocolates and handmade truffles have significant