Nah, I'm just kidding the Food Network is way too impressive. BUT!..
Hello fellow food lovers,
My name is Eva and as my About Me suggests that I am totally obsessed about food--cooking it, eating it, smelling it, watching it, learning about it--everything. My hero is Anthony Bourdain--a food anthropologist (my dream job combining my undergrad anthro degree with food), and I watch the Food Network with all the other over-enthusiasts.
I've been thinking about starting a food blog for awhile now. Given that I'm not famous enough to be on the Top Chef or Chopped, I've never been to culinary school, or had any professional position in food (other than being a food critic for a short time at my school newspaper) I feel I must give the "Warning" sign that I am no professional. However, what I lack in credited skill, I make up for in passion and vigor...I literally eat, sleep, and live food.
My passion for food first came about in eating. I've always loved to eat (and I used to have the metabolism to eat like an offensive lineman, too). This past summer I finally moved into a house near my school and began cooking. That's how my passion for cooking began. I always grew up cooking with my mother, watching her cook, and I own the cook book she made as her legacy to her children. But I had never before cooked outside following recipes with such innate detail that cooking became more like a chemistry experiment than a hobby.
This summer, I threw all caution to the wind. I decided, to the hell with cook books! I'll just experiment. And so I did. And now I can't stop.
What my blog is and will be, I hope, is a sort of food diary. Similar to that prominent chef in Seattle who goes on NPR every Sunday, I will open my fridge that night, see what I have to make, and put together ingredients on the spot. In my blogs I will provide explanations of what I did, hopefully adding hilarious mishaps (I have the clumsiness and go-it-all of Julia Childs) and in the end, provide what I think are damn good meals that anyone could make. While I certainly have a more extravagant fridge than most college students, it's about what you would expect in an average family of four's fridge, and thus relevant for many people.
So please! Read on. I hope it inspires you to love food and to realize that anyone's fridge can become a gourmet meal!
