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A food writer, cookbook collaborator, and recipe developer, Maria Zizka<\/a> believes interacting with your food in a joyful way\u2014eating salad with your hands, licking your fingers, or stopping to smell the herbs\u2014makes the food, and the process of creating it, better.<\/p>\n

7 Ways to Play With Your Food<\/h3>\n

<\/b>1. Be hands-on<\/a> with ingredient selection.<\/strong> Pick colorful and unexpected ingredients that engage your senses.<\/p>\n

2. Combine sweet and savory flavors and different textures.<\/strong> Do this while cooking or eating. Maybe you dip a crunchy orange carrot into that creamy hummus and swirl it around.<\/p>\n

3. Use your hands to create foods.<\/strong> Think pasta from scratch, or even butter.<\/p>\n

4. Enjoy yourself during creation and presentation.<\/strong> \u201cI think you can tell when someone had fun making something\u2014the joy shines through,\u201d says Zizka.<\/p>\n

5. Make things you often don\u2019t think twice about buying.<\/strong> You can create food (such as chocolate!) without that many ingredients. \u201cIt feels like magic,\u201d says Zizka.<\/p>\n

6. Look around.<\/strong> Be inspired by your city, the people in it, and the art around you. \u201cI love Impressionism,\u201d says Zizka, \u201cand I love to just gaze at paintings and see what fruits are together in an oil painting that was created decades ago\u2014and maybe a tart comes out of that because I saw blackberries and roses together and then it sparked some idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

7. Eat with your hands.<\/strong> Even salad can be finger food\u2014just have a napkin nearby. \u201cI love to eat with my hands<\/a>,\u201d says Zizka. \u201cI think it definitely feels more intimate, like I\u2019m interacting with the food in a closer way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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