Eat like a Baby?

As I write this, I am sitting at the dining room table watching little miss decide whether she wants to eat her rice cracker or smash it all over her face.  Now I'm not saying that smashing food all over our faces would be helpful, nor am I professing a desire to eat my food in puree form.  However, all of us can probably stand to eat a little slower and really take the time to decide if we are hungry (I know I could).  I'm having a vague recollection of a French approach to food that touts that we should savor our food that would support this point.  Apparently my daughter is already more cutting edge than me.  Damn.