An email that the lovely Eden sent me about a salad she made. Eden is my soul sista from Victoria. Lived with her for 3 years, and if there were anything to pull me back to living in Victoria, she would be it. I also eat a lot of beets, so I may just give it a shot. Anything to make root vegetables more interesting! Enjoy. Thanks Eden!
I get a local food box every two weeks here on the island, and I'm often (read:constantly) finding myself staring at my bottom fridge drawer wondering what theheck to do with the multitude of root vegetables that gather there. Beets. Turnips. Beets. Potatoes. Beets. Parsnips. Beets. Sunchokes. Beets.
Sometimes there are even leftover beets.
A week or so ago I had a BRAINWAVE. While sitting around bemoaning my fate andsilently grumbling in my head--"Why can't these beets just get out of myface-space?!"--I thought, "Hey! Salad!"
I know, right? Super simple. So here it is, without measurements. I firmlybelieve that measurements were just invented by the man to keep you down (except forthings involving yeast, because breads are just darn finnicky). Regardless ofwhether you want to jump on THAT ridiculous opinion bandwagon, I still believe thatyou'll get a lot more out of being inspired by this rough guideline andexperimenting with different amounts of things than if I gave you measurements. Experiential learning, what?!
Salad:
*grated beets
*grated sunchokes or parsnips (...or what have you. I have a fondness for sunchokes in this recipe myself.)
*grated pear or apple (From your local cold storage, if you're as lucky as me.)
*chopped nuts (Local hazelnuts here!)
*chopped kale or sprouts (Kale from your garden if you've got it, or you can makesome sprouts in your cupboard. Greens in the dead of winter! It's magic!)
Dressing:
*honey (for localness) or Maple Syrup (for veganness) or Agave Nectar (for hipsterness)
*apple cider vinegar (Spinnaker's makes it here from local apples)
*oil? If you need/want it.
Grate, chop, slice, dice and assemble the salad part in a big glass or ceramic bowl. Bloody-murder beet stained hands are cool, but it's not so cool when it happens to your mom's vintage hand-carved wooden salad bowl that she got from her great great Mennonite grandmother. Put the dressing ingredients in a mason jar,slap a lid on there, shake shake shake that booty, pour it on top and mix. Add somesprigs of sprouts or a handful of chopped nuts on top for prettiness.
Consume. Preferably with friends. Bonus points if it's friends who would love to be all enlightened by your awesome localness, or who are also bemoaning theirbeet-fate too and are needing some inspiration.
BTW, this is all organic if you can. I mean, if you're going to support localfarms, why not support the ones who are enriching the land around you through theiragricultural practices? Am I right or am I right? Finally, I super value group process. Drop Lisi here a line by leaving a comment ifyou tried this recipe and loved it/hated it/debated it/gyrated at it/etc.
~Eden (like the garden)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
A Locavore's Dillemma: I'm #@%!ing poor, and I can't look at another potato.
I felt the need to blog about something that has had my attention for the past few years:
Local food.
Ta-da!
Eating a meal where I know that the food was grown close by, harvested by me or a face that I know, is one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had. It sounds simple, but it's true. You can taste how local it is. It tastes better, it's healthier, and it's carbon footprint is minimal, if not nothing. Seriously. Just eat a carrot grown in your grandmother's backyard as compared with one from Safeway. You'll know what I mean.
And for the average North American, our food travels between 1,500 and 3000 miles from farm to plate. And that doesn't include the distance of packaging. Or the distance travelled by the oil that was used to fuel the production of pesticides, which is on the majority of our produce nowadays. Yikes.
So, I want to eat local. First step is admitting you have a problem. Wait, a problem? Yup. I find it amazing that we live in a society in which eating entirely local is very, very challenging. I am in the midst of reading "The 100-Mile Diet", a non-fiction narritive that relates the tale of a couple from Vancouver who set the goal of eating food grown within a radius of 100 miles from their apartment for an entire year. I'm not very far into the book, but so far they have faced arguments, financial issues, winter scarcity, and cravings for non-local products.
So, why is eating local so difficult?
First of all, for a Canadian, so many of our considered 'regular staples' are not local. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of things that grow here. But there are so many things that we eat daily that are simply not local. For a locavore in Vancouver, bread is not an option. Olive oil. Spices. Almost every grain you can think of is not grown near Vancouver. Then there are the obvious ones that discourage so many people from eating local: Coffee. Tea. Sugar. Avocadoes. Mangos. Oranges. Lemons. The list goes on.
Secondly, the ever-so-evil yet ever-so-precious dollar. Unless you are growing all your own food, you rely on farmers' markets for local food. It's true. It isn't cheap. Even though sometimes all it takes is good budgeting--of sacrificing a few things for the sake of having local veggies at the table--it totally sucks that buying a banana from Ecuador costs under a dollar, and an apple from a local orchard can often cost over 2.
But the biggest one, I have found, is the lack of knowlegde. As someone who wants to eat local, I have realized that I must obtain a huge amount of knowledge that wasn't passed down to me when I was growing up. I have to learn how to garden. How to grow different things at different times. As well, in order to not starve during the winter, it is essential to preserve and store food that grows in abundance during spring and summer. Unless you want to live on a diet of root vegetables for four months (or more). How to can, store food in cold, and ferment. There is a huge wealth of knowledge out there, and it is very difficult to obtain this knowlegde on your own. I feel lucky to live in a house where several of my roommates already have this knowledge. But doing this all alone can feel daunting.
But in my mind, this is all knowledge that needs to be learned. I feel not only the interest, but the obligation to learn all this. Our modern global food system, that we all depend on, is one of the leading causes of climate change and peak oil. This may be surprising, but with a little bit of thought it makes total sense. Everything from how the lettuce was grown, processed, packaged and shipped uses immense amounts of fossil fuels, and that once seemingly endless resource is rapidly becoming scarce.
The day of peak oil is looming. What is peak oil? Basically, it is the day when the amount of oil we have in the world begins to run out. Not when it completely runs out, but when we cannot produce (or extract?) any more. Eating locally is one of the most important things we can do in the face of peak oil so that we can be self-sufficient again.
Let's face it. We're utterly screwed if we don't start learning right now. So I've decided. I'm going to try and learn as much as possible about gardening, storing, canning, preserving, fermenting... so one day I can live entirely out of my own backyard.
It means one day sacrificing my daily cup of English Breakfast, but that's the price I'll have to pay.
Local food.
Ta-da!
Eating a meal where I know that the food was grown close by, harvested by me or a face that I know, is one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had. It sounds simple, but it's true. You can taste how local it is. It tastes better, it's healthier, and it's carbon footprint is minimal, if not nothing. Seriously. Just eat a carrot grown in your grandmother's backyard as compared with one from Safeway. You'll know what I mean.
And for the average North American, our food travels between 1,500 and 3000 miles from farm to plate. And that doesn't include the distance of packaging. Or the distance travelled by the oil that was used to fuel the production of pesticides, which is on the majority of our produce nowadays. Yikes.
So, I want to eat local. First step is admitting you have a problem. Wait, a problem? Yup. I find it amazing that we live in a society in which eating entirely local is very, very challenging. I am in the midst of reading "The 100-Mile Diet", a non-fiction narritive that relates the tale of a couple from Vancouver who set the goal of eating food grown within a radius of 100 miles from their apartment for an entire year. I'm not very far into the book, but so far they have faced arguments, financial issues, winter scarcity, and cravings for non-local products.
So, why is eating local so difficult?
First of all, for a Canadian, so many of our considered 'regular staples' are not local. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of things that grow here. But there are so many things that we eat daily that are simply not local. For a locavore in Vancouver, bread is not an option. Olive oil. Spices. Almost every grain you can think of is not grown near Vancouver. Then there are the obvious ones that discourage so many people from eating local: Coffee. Tea. Sugar. Avocadoes. Mangos. Oranges. Lemons. The list goes on.
Secondly, the ever-so-evil yet ever-so-precious dollar. Unless you are growing all your own food, you rely on farmers' markets for local food. It's true. It isn't cheap. Even though sometimes all it takes is good budgeting--of sacrificing a few things for the sake of having local veggies at the table--it totally sucks that buying a banana from Ecuador costs under a dollar, and an apple from a local orchard can often cost over 2.
But the biggest one, I have found, is the lack of knowlegde. As someone who wants to eat local, I have realized that I must obtain a huge amount of knowledge that wasn't passed down to me when I was growing up. I have to learn how to garden. How to grow different things at different times. As well, in order to not starve during the winter, it is essential to preserve and store food that grows in abundance during spring and summer. Unless you want to live on a diet of root vegetables for four months (or more). How to can, store food in cold, and ferment. There is a huge wealth of knowledge out there, and it is very difficult to obtain this knowlegde on your own. I feel lucky to live in a house where several of my roommates already have this knowledge. But doing this all alone can feel daunting.
But in my mind, this is all knowledge that needs to be learned. I feel not only the interest, but the obligation to learn all this. Our modern global food system, that we all depend on, is one of the leading causes of climate change and peak oil. This may be surprising, but with a little bit of thought it makes total sense. Everything from how the lettuce was grown, processed, packaged and shipped uses immense amounts of fossil fuels, and that once seemingly endless resource is rapidly becoming scarce.
The day of peak oil is looming. What is peak oil? Basically, it is the day when the amount of oil we have in the world begins to run out. Not when it completely runs out, but when we cannot produce (or extract?) any more. Eating locally is one of the most important things we can do in the face of peak oil so that we can be self-sufficient again.
Let's face it. We're utterly screwed if we don't start learning right now. So I've decided. I'm going to try and learn as much as possible about gardening, storing, canning, preserving, fermenting... so one day I can live entirely out of my own backyard.
It means one day sacrificing my daily cup of English Breakfast, but that's the price I'll have to pay.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Dearest Little Wolf.
I realized after a couple of posts on this blog that it needed a dedication. This blog on a discussion of food is dedicated with a lot of love to my friend, Otesha-tour mate, party planner and inspiration, Andrew "Little" Wolf.
As many of you reading this already know, this fall I went on an Otesha bicycle tour. I'll be brief, but these tours are incredible. You live in a sustainable, mobile community, biking from town to town and performing a play and doing workshops on environmental and social justice issues.
On the second official day of tour, after spending a week with each other for training, our team was involved in an accident on the highway. We lost our dear tour mate, Andrew. What a devastating blow. Andrew was such an incredible, inspiring young man, I cannot describe the loss we all felt at his tragic passing.
But we have all learned things from knowing Andrew for the brief time that we did. Andrew was passionate about food justice issues. He worked for a couple of non-profit organizations, teaching youth about cooking, healthy food choices and food justice issues. One of the things we did on tour was facilitate "Banana workshops", which educated the students about where bananas come from, the distance it had to travel to get to the grocery store, and the injustice of the working conditions and wages of people along the way. Andrew led one of these workshops a few hours before he died. He was wide-eyed, inspiring, and passionate about these issues and facilitated an amazing workshop. After leaving the workshop, he turned to a fellow tour mate and said "this is what I want to do."
Andrew is a huge inspiration for me writing this blog. It is partially through Andrew's passion that I want people to know and talk about these issues. So, thank you, Andrew. I miss you so much, and I know if you were still with us you would be commenting on everything on this blog. Thank you for lighting my way, and for encouraging me to keep inspiring others.
Rest in peace.
(To read more about the amazing work Andrew was doing, go to http://communityworksjournal.org/ . This was an article he wrote.)
Raw Inspiration
This is probably what initially inspired me to start this blog on food.
Last Tuesday, I went to this event that, before I left, I was debating whether or not to go. Li was going to it and invited me, and initially I wasn't going to. And then, I thought, why not? I jumped into my shoes, hopped out the door and ran after Li.
I'm so glad I decided to go. The event took place at this Raw Vegan cafe on Commerical Drive (in Vancouver) called Eternal Abundance....which, for those of you who live in Victoria, is very similar to Cafe Bliss....except a lot bigger.
Anyway, the event was a film screening of the film "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days". I cannot describe adequately enough how inspiring this film is. If you have any chance to watch it, do. The film is a documentary about six people, all with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, who came from all over the U.S to a retreat in Arizona. At the retreat, they ate completely raw food for 30 days. The film shows their struggles and triumphs through the 30 days and everyone who came through the program had successfully reversed their diabetes, went off their medication and doses of insulin.
What is raw food, you might ask? Good question. When you first hear the term, it sounds like a diet of a plate of raw carrots for dinner and an apple for dessert. Wrong. It's a very complex, intricate and beautiful movement that encompasses a wide range of recipes, from soup to lasagna to cacao truffles. Basically, nothing is cooked, or if it is, it is never cooked over a certain temperature. The idea behind it is that after food is cooked at a certain temperature, it loses the majority, if not all, of its essential nutrients. The movement is also known as a "living diet" because the food is still ALIVE. The essential nutrients haven't been lost. It takes a lot of knowledge, time and preparation to eat a raw diet. In the film, they had chefs cooking for the participants for the 30 days, but they would also teach the participants how to make a lot of the meals, and how to incorporate raw meals into a non-raw diet. The idea is not necessarily that you have to eat raw all the time, but that including more raw foods in your diet is a good idea.
This film is an astonishing reminder of two huge things for me. 1) The food that we eat DOES make a huge difference. Enough said. It's something we hear about all the time, but this film really shows that the food choices we make have monumental impacts on our health. It ALSO affects our well being. Many of the participants in the retreat described that they felt very connected to their bodies, they felt more alive, and their thoughts were clearer. I know if I've had a meal full of fresh, raw vegetables, I feel the same way. Alive, and, as someone described it in the talkback after the film, "in the flow" of our bodies.
2) As a culture, we really need to look at our medical system and our current conventional ways of dealing with health problems. It makes sense. If you're putting junk into your body, no matter how many dozens of pills you're taking on top of it, your health is going to suffer. Drugs will not solve diabetes. Your diet will. It's that simple, really.
The film taught me about willpower and prioritizing. Yes, you do need a certain amount of willpower to eat the things your bodies needs, and not what it craves. It isn't easy. If you're used to eating McDonald's and KFC all the time, you're going to want that. Obviously you won't want what your body actually wants and needs. This says a lot about how out of touch we are with our bodies, and with our relationship to food.
Relationship to food, for many of us, is an abusive one. We say things are 'bad' for us, and we don't even really want to eat it, but we do anyway. In a book I read once called "If the Buddha Came to Dinner", one of the questions recommended to ask yourself whenever you feel the desire to eat (besides the feeling of "I'm hungry, I need to eat!") is, "who are you feeding?" This question is revelatory. We eat for so many reasons other than hunger. Why do you think we have the phrase 'comfort food'? And is the food that you're eating really what your body wants, or what your mind wants? Are you feeding your body, or your lack of self-esteem? Your lack of a job? Your failed marriage? etc...
I think it is important to be kind to yourself when dealing with food, and unless you are in a severe health crisis, like the people in this film, it is important to take baby steps. Rome was not built in a day. But in some ways, we have to prioritize our thoughts. Are we going to eat that piece of pizza or that Tim Horton's doughnut that tastes so damn good? If you eat it, and feel good afterwards, then great. By all means, every once in a while, it's fine! But if you ask yourself the question "who are you feeding?" and, after you eat it, you feel guilty, sad, fat, tired, whatver.... then you know you've been abusive to your body. One of the things I've discovered about many things over the years, including with food, is that what you want in the moment is often not in touch with what you actually, genuinely want. Do I want to feel lazy and terrible about my body, or feel like I could run a marathon?
I decided, after watching this film, that I would stick to one change in my diet. Only one. Baby steps, right? On and off, I have been eliminating sugar from my diet. And I find that many things get in the way of me sticking to that choice: Cravings, obviously. Peer pressure. Feeling tired of explaining why. Not really knowing why I'm doing it in the first place. Not being 'rude' when something is offered to me. Again, who am I feeding, right?
So far, since the film, except for one family birthday dinner when I forgot to ask the waitress not to cut me a slice of cake, I have stuck to my choice. I am prioritizing. What's more important? How I feel about myself and my body? Or the 30 second craving for a chocolate bar?
So, the next time you reach for that thing that you're craving, ask yourself "who are you feeding?" If you still really want it, and you've decided you're going to have it, then eat it and enjoy it. Don't feel guilty about it after. Sometimes I think that we are killing ourselves not by what we are eating but how we are eating it. But if it's something you know your body doesn't want, is it worth the 2 minutes you're going to spend eating it?
Anyway, go see this film. It will inspire your socks off.
http://www.rawfor30days.com/index4.html
-Lisi
Last Tuesday, I went to this event that, before I left, I was debating whether or not to go. Li was going to it and invited me, and initially I wasn't going to. And then, I thought, why not? I jumped into my shoes, hopped out the door and ran after Li.
I'm so glad I decided to go. The event took place at this Raw Vegan cafe on Commerical Drive (in Vancouver) called Eternal Abundance....which, for those of you who live in Victoria, is very similar to Cafe Bliss....except a lot bigger.
Anyway, the event was a film screening of the film "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days". I cannot describe adequately enough how inspiring this film is. If you have any chance to watch it, do. The film is a documentary about six people, all with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, who came from all over the U.S to a retreat in Arizona. At the retreat, they ate completely raw food for 30 days. The film shows their struggles and triumphs through the 30 days and everyone who came through the program had successfully reversed their diabetes, went off their medication and doses of insulin.
What is raw food, you might ask? Good question. When you first hear the term, it sounds like a diet of a plate of raw carrots for dinner and an apple for dessert. Wrong. It's a very complex, intricate and beautiful movement that encompasses a wide range of recipes, from soup to lasagna to cacao truffles. Basically, nothing is cooked, or if it is, it is never cooked over a certain temperature. The idea behind it is that after food is cooked at a certain temperature, it loses the majority, if not all, of its essential nutrients. The movement is also known as a "living diet" because the food is still ALIVE. The essential nutrients haven't been lost. It takes a lot of knowledge, time and preparation to eat a raw diet. In the film, they had chefs cooking for the participants for the 30 days, but they would also teach the participants how to make a lot of the meals, and how to incorporate raw meals into a non-raw diet. The idea is not necessarily that you have to eat raw all the time, but that including more raw foods in your diet is a good idea.
This film is an astonishing reminder of two huge things for me. 1) The food that we eat DOES make a huge difference. Enough said. It's something we hear about all the time, but this film really shows that the food choices we make have monumental impacts on our health. It ALSO affects our well being. Many of the participants in the retreat described that they felt very connected to their bodies, they felt more alive, and their thoughts were clearer. I know if I've had a meal full of fresh, raw vegetables, I feel the same way. Alive, and, as someone described it in the talkback after the film, "in the flow" of our bodies.
2) As a culture, we really need to look at our medical system and our current conventional ways of dealing with health problems. It makes sense. If you're putting junk into your body, no matter how many dozens of pills you're taking on top of it, your health is going to suffer. Drugs will not solve diabetes. Your diet will. It's that simple, really.
The film taught me about willpower and prioritizing. Yes, you do need a certain amount of willpower to eat the things your bodies needs, and not what it craves. It isn't easy. If you're used to eating McDonald's and KFC all the time, you're going to want that. Obviously you won't want what your body actually wants and needs. This says a lot about how out of touch we are with our bodies, and with our relationship to food.
Relationship to food, for many of us, is an abusive one. We say things are 'bad' for us, and we don't even really want to eat it, but we do anyway. In a book I read once called "If the Buddha Came to Dinner", one of the questions recommended to ask yourself whenever you feel the desire to eat (besides the feeling of "I'm hungry, I need to eat!") is, "who are you feeding?" This question is revelatory. We eat for so many reasons other than hunger. Why do you think we have the phrase 'comfort food'? And is the food that you're eating really what your body wants, or what your mind wants? Are you feeding your body, or your lack of self-esteem? Your lack of a job? Your failed marriage? etc...
I think it is important to be kind to yourself when dealing with food, and unless you are in a severe health crisis, like the people in this film, it is important to take baby steps. Rome was not built in a day. But in some ways, we have to prioritize our thoughts. Are we going to eat that piece of pizza or that Tim Horton's doughnut that tastes so damn good? If you eat it, and feel good afterwards, then great. By all means, every once in a while, it's fine! But if you ask yourself the question "who are you feeding?" and, after you eat it, you feel guilty, sad, fat, tired, whatver.... then you know you've been abusive to your body. One of the things I've discovered about many things over the years, including with food, is that what you want in the moment is often not in touch with what you actually, genuinely want. Do I want to feel lazy and terrible about my body, or feel like I could run a marathon?
I decided, after watching this film, that I would stick to one change in my diet. Only one. Baby steps, right? On and off, I have been eliminating sugar from my diet. And I find that many things get in the way of me sticking to that choice: Cravings, obviously. Peer pressure. Feeling tired of explaining why. Not really knowing why I'm doing it in the first place. Not being 'rude' when something is offered to me. Again, who am I feeding, right?
So far, since the film, except for one family birthday dinner when I forgot to ask the waitress not to cut me a slice of cake, I have stuck to my choice. I am prioritizing. What's more important? How I feel about myself and my body? Or the 30 second craving for a chocolate bar?
So, the next time you reach for that thing that you're craving, ask yourself "who are you feeding?" If you still really want it, and you've decided you're going to have it, then eat it and enjoy it. Don't feel guilty about it after. Sometimes I think that we are killing ourselves not by what we are eating but how we are eating it. But if it's something you know your body doesn't want, is it worth the 2 minutes you're going to spend eating it?
Anyway, go see this film. It will inspire your socks off.
http://www.rawfor30days.com/index4.html
-Lisi
Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!
Food.
Think about for a second.
You need it. We all need food to live. No matter what else we do with our lives, whether we make art or pick up garbage in a truck, whether we're the Pope or a pauper, we need to eat.
Isn't it interesting that one of our most basic needs, one of the essentials of life, even arguably THE most essential, is one of the world's largest springboards for a whole plethora of controversy and issues? Just take a moment to think about the number of issues, debates, problems and discussions there are in the world surrounding this amazing thing that we have to put into our bodies at least 3 times a day.
It's endless. Just to name a few: food security, world hunger, eating disorders, health, dieting, environmentalism... and the list goes on.
We've all got to eat, but there are endless options being thrown in our faces as to exactly WHAT we should eat. If indeed you live in a 'developed' country and you have enough money to choose, that is. You walk into the grocery store. You stumble into the kitchen in the morning, sleep in your eyes, and open the fridge. You are heading to work, feel the pang of hunger, and gaze at all the food venues in your path. What do you choose? What makes you choose that? What forces are at play?
It occurred to me just how much of a 20th-21st century phenomenon this is. Back in the day, we would grow all our own food. We lived on farms. We milked our own cows for milk, picked our own wheat. What was available to us was dependent on the seasons.
Nowadays this simple act of eating has become, for many, a personal and worldwide debate. What we have on our tables is personal, it's political, it's psychological, it's socio-economic.
So, welcome. I invite everyone who reads this to post their stories, thoughts and ideas. I will write about what inspires, enflames, enrages me about food. I want this to be an open discussion. I feel passionately about food, and wish to express this passion, but ultimately I want these issues to be talked about openly with the members of my world community, on and offline.
With that, I welcome you to my blog.
Bon Appetit!
Think about for a second.
You need it. We all need food to live. No matter what else we do with our lives, whether we make art or pick up garbage in a truck, whether we're the Pope or a pauper, we need to eat.
Isn't it interesting that one of our most basic needs, one of the essentials of life, even arguably THE most essential, is one of the world's largest springboards for a whole plethora of controversy and issues? Just take a moment to think about the number of issues, debates, problems and discussions there are in the world surrounding this amazing thing that we have to put into our bodies at least 3 times a day.
It's endless. Just to name a few: food security, world hunger, eating disorders, health, dieting, environmentalism... and the list goes on.
We've all got to eat, but there are endless options being thrown in our faces as to exactly WHAT we should eat. If indeed you live in a 'developed' country and you have enough money to choose, that is. You walk into the grocery store. You stumble into the kitchen in the morning, sleep in your eyes, and open the fridge. You are heading to work, feel the pang of hunger, and gaze at all the food venues in your path. What do you choose? What makes you choose that? What forces are at play?
It occurred to me just how much of a 20th-21st century phenomenon this is. Back in the day, we would grow all our own food. We lived on farms. We milked our own cows for milk, picked our own wheat. What was available to us was dependent on the seasons.
Nowadays this simple act of eating has become, for many, a personal and worldwide debate. What we have on our tables is personal, it's political, it's psychological, it's socio-economic.
So, welcome. I invite everyone who reads this to post their stories, thoughts and ideas. I will write about what inspires, enflames, enrages me about food. I want this to be an open discussion. I feel passionately about food, and wish to express this passion, but ultimately I want these issues to be talked about openly with the members of my world community, on and offline.
With that, I welcome you to my blog.
Bon Appetit!
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