There are moments in life so humbling that, rather than draw a profound lesson from the moment, you’d prefer to quickly move along and pretend that it never happened. Such a moment might be when, say, you’re feeling too lazy to slice off a piece of a chewy, chewy Boulangerie Nantaise baguette, opt to gnaw it off with your teeth, and are then struck down by the sharp, unmistakable pain of an overextended jaw. The severe discomfort of a TMJ injury does not allow you to move past the incident quickly. Instead, it forces you into a diet of pain killers and soft foods (“babying the jaw”). As it turns out, though, a soft food diet is not without its own delights and discoveries.