My goal for this site is simple-- To share my recipes and ideas, to find out what anyone who happens to read this is doing in their kitchen, and basically have fun with food. I'll be posting food news, food quotes, a lot of stuff from my collection of vintage cookbooks, and maybe the occasional food-related opinion, if it's something I feel strongly about.
For anyone who doesn't know me, I'm a 45-year-old, married father of teen- aged twins, who got into thrown into the deep-end of the kitchen, and made the best of it. My interest in cooking and food is simply, finding and making dishes that my family and friends will enjoy eating.
I don't describe myself as a "foodie" because I think that's a term that has too much baggage attached to it. I'm not really into food trends, or fine-dining, and I don't care for the more judgmental connotations it carries. To illustrate, let me share some comments about foodies from a 2007 conversation on Yelp! (Some have been edited for brevity and/or language)
“My
definition (of foodie) changed because I started noticing people talking about
food in a way that was very trendy, much like that of wine tasting, and not
exactly indicative of what I was experiencing. Patrons of restaurants talking
about food pairings like they were in the know, but many times talked out their (backsides). It was more than the comment about a food's MSG content when it did
not have one, but it was about preparation or style of certain foods, when it
was obviously not the case. Food to me is also very subjective, so I think it
is funny when people are highbrow or overly judgmental. I guess I associate
these two attributes with the term foodie, so when I hear foodie, I think of a
person who likes to eat and socialize about food as a means to differentiate
themselves from the non foodie, but not necessarily for the sake of knowing
about or understanding the food itself.” – Kapeli M.
"Nothing
wrong with the word foodie.
It's what they do that's so annoying. They're the hipsters of the
food world. They want to have an opinion but they don't care if it's an
informed one, they just like to talk. Kind of like baseball fans who
never actually figure out the game." -- Gil S.
"There
is a spectrum of foodies, from the involved food lovers to the
crazy food snobs. There should be a second word - just like
"Trekkies" and "Trekkers," there could be "Foodies"
and "Fooders" - I can't stand the Fooders, mostly because they won't
shut up and refuse to eat at taco trucks." -- Andy M.
I bring this up now, so you know what to expect as this blog goes forward. I'm not here to dump on anyone, I'm here to have fun. I hope you will, too.
