Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Why we're here

Well, I decided to just go ahead and make a whole new blog, because it seems most of my posts are about that which apparently occupies much of my mind...food. I make no apologies, I love food. I love eating it, cooking it, and even just looking at it. Food has this incredible ability to bring people together. It's seductive, tempting you to do things you swore up and down you wouldn't do...like have that second piece of chocolate cake (yes, I saw you). Food has the ability to keep kids out of trouble (or get them in trouble...depends on which way you wanna go with that). Studies show that families who sit down and eat a meal together have children who are less likely to go out and engage in unlawful or unsavory activity. Having kids in the kitchen helping prepare a meal is also a fun way to get a flour war started. Imagine flour as far as the eye can see and in places you didn't think it would go. Honestly, I think if we got all the government officials and big decision makers of the world to sit down to a nice meal, we'd quickly have world peace. Give them all enough turkey, and they'd be too sleepy to wage war on anyone. Give them mac & cheese, and I'm sure they'd be hugging before long. Heck...give them bacon and they'd be BFFs within minutes. That's the power of food.

This is why I now have a whole blog dedicated to my unending love affair with all things culinary. Here, I'll document my food science experiments and all other foodie adventures. Now don't worry, my other blog, isn't going anywhere. It's just getting set free from the constant kitchen chatter. On that site, I'll post my thoughts about the deeper issues in life like...should bacon be put on ice cream...wait...no...SEE!...there I go again. (Now are you getting why I have this site?) On my original blog, I'll have all my non food thoughts, few and far between as they may be. You'll also find my earlier posts about food that I didn't feel like importing onto this site. Eat well and savor the flavor!