Songs About Food: Hungry for Home

Those of you who know me well know that there are a few things in life that I'm rather obsessed with. Food certainly is one. Music is another. I write and play songs, I spent four years hosting Music of Note on WCFM (and am scheming to resurrect it as a podcast), and there are few things on earth I find more pleasant than lying back and letting a great song envelop me.

I've written before about the similarities between music and food (and if I can find that particular essay I will absolutely post it here), but for now I'd like to dwell on one particular property they have in common: the ability to transport you. Visual art of all kinds can captivate us and move us every bit as profoundly as either music of food can, but I think that the sheer sensory experience of these two art forms are unique in in their ability to hurl us through time and space to emotional points in our past. Take a bite, hear a note, and for a tiny moment you can violate every law that keeps us stampeding on into the future.