Question:“On a day without appetite”
On a day without appetite
On a day without appetite it is the mind that closed first, not the tongue. Something soft, something sour, or something hot will knock on the door.
Three descend. Put a little in a small bowl. If the appetite has not returned after some days, show the body to a physician.
- Plain rice porridgeThe one thing a stomach that wants nothing does not refuse.
- Bibim-guksu, cold noodles in sour-spicy sauceSourness opens a closed tongue first.
- Kimchi-jjigae, kimchi stewHeat does not ask for appetite. It summons it.
Demeter, grieving her daughter, took the barley drink only after Iambe’s jokes made her laugh.