Task of creating tastes without the vice. Savory herb infused cakes

Seems like a long time back when I heard that life isn't about tasks, it is also about tastes. 
But sometimes it seems that such tastes often come at a price that we end up paying in terms of calories, among other things that we wish we did not have to pay. When the king of a distant land said that life is about tastes, he probably did not have to think of the task  of making food the way we do