so i was walking back home one evening and it struck me!!! why not this new blog where i put my thoughts on food...coz i keep thinking about it. on my 28th birthday i really wanted a book on the sociology of food or how food represents culture and food can be used to study culture...and i searched and didnt find one...i did find one book...by Maeve O'Meara...and i love her alot...she is the only person i know who has described food within the cultural context...at least from Food Safari you can pull out cultural nuances and think and explore further....i dont know how my sudden love for food started...but i credit Maeve O'Meara for getting me into exploring it...
so like i was saying, i kept searching for books on it and i never got what i wanted...i did want her book....and even hinted someone to get me it...but my birthday this year turned out to be a near disaster...alone in a hotel room...no cake...no one to celebrate...it was the first time i did not have family or friends around on that day and it was never celebrated...for the first time in the 28 years of my life, my birthday was not celebrated by those who i expected would....i did feel the maturity run through me...and accepted it...BUT i must appreciate my boss who was there with me and KNEW it was my birthday....and he got me a some mini assorted pastries from the buffet dinner and told me to cut and celebrate...whoaaa! birthdays and food...now that could be a separate post!
so i never got the book i wanted and i grew out that desire...Food Safari also stopped airing new shows and i went into a miserable emotional phase....but food stuck by my side...no NOT as an anti-depressant...or maybe it was...BUT as something to think about...food for thought...no thought of food.....god these prepositions....thought on food...whatever!
so then it began...i must say that i met someone who i feel in love with and we even planned to open our restaurant one day...i CREDIT him big time for initiating the love of food in my life...the love to cook, to taste, to have your taste buds go crazy...he got me into one of the MOST fascinating things in the world...INDIAN food...i was always the italian and mexican lover BUT he told me about chutneys and sarson...no not lamenting...BUT BY FAR he is the BEST cook in the world...he even cooked for me and when he cooked (AND when he ate) HE knew nothing else than food....he wouldnt even connect to the person next to him...he would drown himself in the creativity and flavors nature had to offer! (i even put on weight that time!).................this first post was not meant to go this way....but we credit our guru na!
cooking remains the strongest de-stressing activity in my hectic stressful life...i do find alot of solace in it...no not in eating...but in cooking...in experimenting, creating and mixing ....nice way to connect with nature too....but i am not too much on the cooking front...but more of the sociologist....
hehe...remembering someone else...who talked to me about the first sociological theory of food i had heard...i hope he publishes that theory...i wont talk about it (copyright issues)...interestingly i fell in love with him too...okay now i sound like some hopeless insaan....uff thats not the point...hahah...
you know when i meet prospective guys...whatever...i ask them if they can cook...heheh..something like what women are asked! heheh...no man asks me that...(perhaps they expect it)....but i STRONGLY believe that when a man cooks and connects with the food and kitchen, he is definitely more sensitive towards his spouse (if the spouse cooks that is). I will prove it someday.....and i will write more on it someday...need to reorganize my thought on it.....
i did not come here to write all this...but its like the introduction or vote of thanks.....where you mention who all influenced you....i dont know who really influenced me...but thoughts are spilling....there is so much to say.....
so like i was saying, i kept searching for books on it and i never got what i wanted...i did want her book....and even hinted someone to get me it...but my birthday this year turned out to be a near disaster...alone in a hotel room...no cake...no one to celebrate...it was the first time i did not have family or friends around on that day and it was never celebrated...for the first time in the 28 years of my life, my birthday was not celebrated by those who i expected would....i did feel the maturity run through me...and accepted it...BUT i must appreciate my boss who was there with me and KNEW it was my birthday....and he got me a some mini assorted pastries from the buffet dinner and told me to cut and celebrate...whoaaa! birthdays and food...now that could be a separate post!
so i never got the book i wanted and i grew out that desire...Food Safari also stopped airing new shows and i went into a miserable emotional phase....but food stuck by my side...no NOT as an anti-depressant...or maybe it was...BUT as something to think about...food for thought...no thought of food.....god these prepositions....thought on food...whatever!
so then it began...i must say that i met someone who i feel in love with and we even planned to open our restaurant one day...i CREDIT him big time for initiating the love of food in my life...the love to cook, to taste, to have your taste buds go crazy...he got me into one of the MOST fascinating things in the world...INDIAN food...i was always the italian and mexican lover BUT he told me about chutneys and sarson...no not lamenting...BUT BY FAR he is the BEST cook in the world...he even cooked for me and when he cooked (AND when he ate) HE knew nothing else than food....he wouldnt even connect to the person next to him...he would drown himself in the creativity and flavors nature had to offer! (i even put on weight that time!).................this first post was not meant to go this way....but we credit our guru na!
cooking remains the strongest de-stressing activity in my hectic stressful life...i do find alot of solace in it...no not in eating...but in cooking...in experimenting, creating and mixing ....nice way to connect with nature too....but i am not too much on the cooking front...but more of the sociologist....
hehe...remembering someone else...who talked to me about the first sociological theory of food i had heard...i hope he publishes that theory...i wont talk about it (copyright issues)...interestingly i fell in love with him too...okay now i sound like some hopeless insaan....uff thats not the point...hahah...
you know when i meet prospective guys...whatever...i ask them if they can cook...heheh..something like what women are asked! heheh...no man asks me that...(perhaps they expect it)....but i STRONGLY believe that when a man cooks and connects with the food and kitchen, he is definitely more sensitive towards his spouse (if the spouse cooks that is). I will prove it someday.....and i will write more on it someday...need to reorganize my thought on it.....
i did not come here to write all this...but its like the introduction or vote of thanks.....where you mention who all influenced you....i dont know who really influenced me...but thoughts are spilling....there is so much to say.....
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