Project in development
Three connected books exploring eating through Buddhist practice, psychology, philosophy, and ordinary life.
Why mindful eating?
Food is not just fuel, and eating is not merely another behaviour to optimise. A meal gathers together appetite, memory, habit, labour, culture, pleasure, morality, and the conditions that make a life possible. The trilogy asks what becomes visible when we pay proper attention to this ordinary act.
Mindful eating is often reduced to a handful of instructions: slow down, chew properly, notice the taste, and stop when you are full. That advice can be useful, but it is not the whole subject. These books treat eating as a place where mind, body, society, and the living world continually meet.
Book One · Current focus
An accessible and experiential book about bringing attention to eating and the life around it. It moves through stories, discussion, practical exercises, and reflection without pretending that awareness will make eating simple.
Book Two · Planned
A closer examination of Buddhist sources, psychology, scientific evidence, and the claims made on behalf of mindful eating. It will ask what the evidence actually supports, where it remains uncertain, and what modern accounts leave out.
Book Three · Planned
A more directly usable collection of practices, exercises, and reflection prompts for working with appetite, habit, emotion, attention, and the conditions surrounding food.
Current work
I am currently concentrating on A Kitchen Companion. The work is being developed slowly enough to test its claims, remove repetition, and allow the practical material to grow from experience rather than from worthy-sounding advice.
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Essays, notes, and practices connected with the trilogy will appear on Yaksa as they become ready.
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