Food blogs are ubiquitous I realize. I'm not doing anything that different.
Thing is, food is a subjective thing. I have no way of knowing how a bite of food will taste on your palate and what makes one person cringe in disgust will make another drool in anticipation. I do not claim to be an expert on food but I enjoy it and I know what I like and what tastes good to me.
As far as the writing part, well, I have a lot of free time. Like many people I was laid off from my job (long story short, big bank takes over small bank and inevitably there are some redundancies and I was one of them). I spent 8 and a half years working in a bank and prior to that I spent 2 years working for a mutual fund company. I liked working in finance okay, it paid the bills and I was good at it. But I didn't love it. My severance gave me a good cushion and I was fortunate in that I paid off my debt prior to being laid off. I decided that if I can manage it I would like to have a job I really like. It may not happen and I may wind up having to take whatever I can get if I stay unemployed much longer. I don't plan on being too picky because I really can't be, but I spent over a decade working a job I was ambivalent about and I'd like to start a new trend if I can. It may involve going back to school, but that's okay.
I figured while I do my job hunt to spend part of my time doing something I enjoy. I really don't know if I'm even that good of a writer, but it feels good to have a creative outlet.
So this is the place I'll be using to write about restaurants (if you have any recommendations, please pass them along), dishes I attempts to make, dishes other people make, food memories and I can pretty much guarantee that I will go off on many tangents. I will probably tell you too much about myself, but blogging is a somewhat masturbatory exercise so I figure that is to be expected.
Anyway, here goes nothing.
2 comments:
Your writing style is very engaging.
My favorite blogs are the ones that give me an option to get an email when a new post comes out. or I can see a notice on facebook. I'm pathetic at remembering to check in to blogs. If those are options I'll be happy.
Do you follow 101 cookbooks? That's one I like, though it's more for the recipes than the prose. And Cream Puffs in Venice has its annoyances, but I like how it showcases folks who are trying the recipes they see in the media. I've been thinking a long time about starting one called "to market, to market" about one quirky little comestibles market at a time.
I'm going to try and send notices to facebook when I update. I have a couple people whose blogs I try to follow and it's tough to remember to read them without some sort of notice.
I like the market blog idea - cool name too. I miss going food shopping at Haymarket and in the North End.
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