Meatless Days - Sara Suleri

"So I should have kept in mind that, alas, we know the flavor of each part of anatomy: that much imagination belongs to everyone's palate" (375).

Meatless Days by Sara Suleri

From The Norton's Book of Woman's Lives by Phyllis Ross 

Sarah Suleri 

    Sara Suleri is bright young lady who has a passion for the unique taste of all foods. She finds knowledge about food highly important, especially when it comes to cultures she does not know about. I find Sara more on the sensitive side, due to her lack of ability to enjoy animal products, mainly due to the concept of it coming from something alive. She discusses her hatred for Kapura, which is made of testicles, and her hatred for kidneys, milk and eggs. She would sneak away to eat from Quayuum's, the cooks, garden, but in return got punished and forced to eat kidney. 

The way Sara speaks about food is very descriptive. She explains one food item as an entire experience itself. The quote above proves how her belief that food is up for interpretation. She allows her imagination to guide her along the journey of tasting new foods and having different feelings and memories associated with them. Since Sara does have such a strong imagination, I find it interesting how much she does tend to day dream about flavors.