Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast or every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Corey Miskara and in today's episode we're going to talk about savoring pleasure.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so let's talk about savoring simple pleasures.

I'm going to talk about this in the context of dessert. I was originally going to... this

this episode savoring your dessert,

but decided to broaden it a bit.

The idea for this episode has come from this new dessert I've been enjoying in Palo Alto.

At this place called True Food Kitchen. Shout out to True Food Kitchen at Stanford Shopping Center.

Really healthy food, really great stuff.

And they have this dessert called flowerless cake.

Cake. It's like gluten free, dairy free, all the stuff free that you want to be free and it works absolutely delicious.

And when I go through it my usual tendency when eating food I've been like this ever since I was a kid,

I would just eat very quickly.

I don't know why.

Maybe it's being an Italian family. I won't impose that on the Italians, let's just say my Italian upbringing.

They just tend to go through meals really quickly. I get a lot of satisfaction out of eating

relatively quickly. Not so quickly that it looks ridiculous but I'm definitely

not a slow eater and that carries into my desserts as well.

And I've always had a bit of a complicated relationship

with mindful eating for that reason,

because I've felt like I get a lot of satisfaction from just going through the meal quickly in a strange way.

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