How Many Steaks can an Artist Eat?

How many steaks can an artist eat: Food, Food, Food, esculent eatables. The second most enjoyable, pleasurable, sensuous part of one’s life. You can decide what the first one should be. Food, “It’s what’s for dinner, breakfast and lunch.” Goes way beyond mere substance. The culinary maestros can orchestrate virtuosos; the perfect meal to suit just about everyone’s mood. Food is an inclination towards the senses; see, smell, touch and devour its tastiness. Virtually no one disagrees with the palatable, delectable, heavenly eats we all associate with the celebratory gratification derived from eating perfectly prepared food. It can be sinfully rapturous.

The starving artist may be more about his or her nutrition and dietary habits, then their ability to sell a work of art. There was a time when all you needed was the “Green Fairy” (Absinthe), it was more than enough to get the creative juices salivating for creativity. Too much of it, not mixed properly, and without the cubes of sugar, could make you want to cut a piece of your ear off; as Vincent Van Gogh unfortunately discovered. I wonder what he and Gauguin had for dinner that night? I suspect it wasn’t steak cooked medium rare on French briquettes.

A properly fed tummy, without stimulants, is truly the catalyzer in establishing meaningful creative output. When your sugar levels drop, you can become dizzy and…