Savor Every Bite

In Mexico, we are mostly carnivores. Tacos have 3 ingredients: Tortilla, meat, and salsa. And specially in the north, carnes asadas are a weekly ritual. There is no escape from meat. My mom cooked it everyday and veggies were only a tiny side.

I enjoy the flavor of cooked meats. I love when family or friends invite me to hamburgers or barbecue cookouts. I love burritos. I love tacos, who doesn’t? But I don’t like how heavy my stomach feels after consuming it. I don’t like the way humanity slaughters animals on an industrial scale. And I don’t like how most meat is full of antibiotics, colorants and other chemicals. Trust me, I owned a restaurant for 10 years, I know all the dirty little secrets of the meat industry.

So over the last few years, I’ve been trying to eat less animal products. But it is really hard to escape it. Especially because it’s been a lifelong habit. I just do the best I can. I try to, as New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan famously coined, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”