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Catherine G.  wrote:

"Your philosophy about enjoying food is worth adding to your site. I hope you will. It is an excellent reminder to those caught up in the whirlwind of this modern Western culture. We forget we're rushing around so fast, gulping down quick meals, catching naps here and there, in order to make ourselves a fine life. Will you please put at least this in:

Whatever you do, don't forget that eating is highly sensual and therefore should be enjoyed. Playfully picking food items from a platter, to nibble on a variety of palatable delicious mouthwatering edibles is much more pleasurable than stuffing one's face with some unexplainable yellow-brown-green-gray-looking so-called-health-bar.
With chopsticks we are forced to take small amount, we can't shovel it in.

With chopsticks the lips, tongue and sensory are allowed to enjoy the offerings to the fullest extend and eating turns into what it should be namely a feast, a great fun experience. Now enjoy.

People who come to your site will appreciate it - I guarantee it. They'd like this part as well:

To the question of portioning food for people who use chopsticks. In general all Japanese, Korean, Chinese cooks will prepare food to be bite size. If a piece of vegetable, fish or meat is a little to big, I go ahead bite a piece off and put the rest back on my plate, such happens all the time with sushi. It is actually thought to be barbaric to stuff a whole sushi into ones mouth.
Items like spears of asparagus I lift with my chopsticks to my mouth and sucking, biting and swallowing I am.
With most big pieces of fish I pick just enough from the bones, a bite at the most. However if its swordfish, shark, or calamari you might see me holding the fish-steak on the plate using  one chopstick in my left hand, while I  separate smaller pieces of the fish with the second chopstick held in my right hand.
Those chopsticks are only to replace the fork, at some times you too might want to use a knife or a spoon as needed.

Why am I so bossy? Because I'm an experienced editor. It's an impulse I can't control!!! Just kidding, it's just such good information - I do hope you add it.

Naturally I added those lines as requested by Chatherine G. and I love it...

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Now there is a more correct way, so I am told see below...

Dear Sir or Madam,

Just wanted to let you know that your web site is very informative and I

enjoyed it very much. However, the animated presentation to show how to

hold chopsticks is not done correctly. The way the hand is holding the

chopstick is not proper. The correct way is to hold the top chopsticks with

three fingers (thumb, side of index finger and side of middle finger, not

the bottom), then the bottom chopstick should be held on the side of the

ring finger, which is laying on top of the side of the pinky. Hard to

explain without a picture. I am a Japanese national who used to teach

Japanese culture to the US Navy personnel for 9 years and I used to teach

this as a part of the class. Sorry for being very picky...

With Respect,

Etsuko Morita Fields

01/07/09