Food and Our Emotions

Ever since the theme of the exhibition was decided, I have been doing some research on 'Can food influence us purely emotionally?' e.g. if we are happen when eating certain food, is it just because we love the food because of the taste? or is it that the food physically influenced us? Maybe it will go back to the question that can happiness/pleasure be totally separated from our physics.

And here are some articles that I found interesting:
How food starves our love relationships
http://www.thebodyimagecenter.com/uploads/How_food_starves_our_love_relationships.pdf
By Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, LGPC and Andrew Walen, LGSW
Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, LGPC, is a Certified IMAGO Relationship Therapist with the Pastora Counseling and Consultation Centers of Greater Washington. To learn more about Rabbi Slatkin’s practice, visit www.jewishmarriagecounseling.com.
Andrew Walen, LGSW, is a psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, body image, emotional eating, and bariatric surgery patients and founder of The Body Image Therapy Center. To learn more about his practice, visit www.thebodyimagecenter.com.

Emotional Influences on Food Choice: Sensory, Physiological and Psychological Pathways (2006)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0P-4JHMFM0-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1153508756&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5d5c698baeb7450cfc0cc85d78a63056
By Edward Leigh Gibson

Stress & Food Choice: A Laboratory Study (2000)
http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/6/853
By Georgina Oliver; Jane Wardle & E. Leigh Gibson

Food Deprivation and Emotional Reaction to Food Cues: Implications for Eating Disorders (2001)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11454438
By David J. Drobes et al.