Loving Food Again

Being vegetarian for the last 6 months I've received all kinds of comments and complaints:"Oh, is it because you love animals?", "Religious reasons", "dietary restrictions?", "stop being strange and difficult and ate the beef steak I bought for you" (the latter, my mum)

There is no other reason behind my vegetarianism other than the fact that I simply do not appreciate food that much, I hate blood and I put on weight even under full days of pineapple and papaya diet as my Beninese hips visibly confirm.
Before a friend who is now living in Singapore tells me that I sound like Paris Hilton again, let me clarify the purpose of this posting: I want to love food and I think I found the way to achieve that.
Some people close their eyes out of pleasure when they put something delicious in their mouths. I know some of those. Anna, Michael, Hugo. Probably you do that too. Well, I don't. I eat because I have to eat but I am not able of appreciating good food.

Today a friend, a food aficionado himself who has savored the culinary delights of Arzak http://www.arzak.info/index.html told me about these guys: www.madridlab.net and I started reading the postings describing recipes, the photos of exotic fruits and fission-cooked courses...

Reading about Progressive Cuisine, as academico-bohemian-i-want-to-be-cool as it might sound could be the cure to my lost of appetite. The courses are as imaginative as a liquid doughnut or foie gras with pineapple?! I won't be able to eat at those very expensive places serving progressive cuisine but the ideas make me hungry.