The gratitude lets you appreciate what's coming to you, disconnect for a moment from all the thoughts and focus on what you're saying thank you for. Feningstein was the one that shed light on the subject, when he said that in all the religions in the world you give some sort of prayer before food, but for him, it's enough to just say "how good is food", and that reminds him every time how tasty food is. Not how tasty this meal is or that whoever cooked it did a wonderful job, but how tasty food is. How tasty are bread and butter, how tasty is pita with hummus and olives, how tasty is chocolate.
We didn't know who to say thank you to anymore because we had it too good. The waiter that brought over the wonderful fish, the cook that made it, this lovely sea, whoever introduced us. How do you
