Getting Hands-on With Your Food Instinctively, everyone on earth starts their solid-food journey, fingers first. Utensils are introduced along the way, and in time, children are trained to master the art of elegantly poking, slicing, gathering, balancing and shoveling food into their mouths with them. In some cultures, however, such as our own, the use of one’s fingers in the process for eating remains primary, while the use of utensils takes second place. What Makes The Experience Of Eating With One’s Fingers Unique? Ask yourself this question as you work through your rice and curry lunch today. Would we be correct in assessing that there is something decidedly sensuous about being in direct contact with your food? If you use your fingers to eat, you would literally get a feel for the textures of what you are about to consume. You would be able to tell what is going to ...