Thurs, April 17, 2008

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Thurs, April 17, 2008

8.25am - German whole grain bread w/ butter and rhubarb jam, at home

10.57am - free corporate food at work: poppy-seed bagel, donut twist (shared with Cecilia and Nancy), disposable plate...

1.40pm - Indonesian mixed curry involving collard greens, egg, rice, beef jerky and grilled anchovies in a banana leaf, fresh honey dew juice, and some Hello Kitty marshmallows w/ apple filling (filled marshmallows??) that I had to taste -test for my goddaughter (thumbs up, if you like sugar), at Simpang Asia Grocery Store

7.40pm - grilled sweet corn salad, guacamole, salsa, chips, at home, without Ritesh...

8.40pm - more of that great bacon chocolate - check out the design on the individual piece!

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Why bother? (Jan 2008)

First of all, this is NOT a diet blog. No calories counted, no kilos or pounds lost, no quantities of any kind.

My first motivation for this blog was MINDFULNESS: this is part of an overall attempt to be more present in my life, notice what I eat, stop mindless nibbling.
Then of course, there's CURIOSITY: if you are what you eat, what am I? What do I actually eat over a year?
Turns out, while I love food, I don't have a great memory for it. More often than not I have a hard time remembering what I ate yesterday, let alone a week ago. I can only imagine what I subsided on as an undergrad, or when I was living or traveling in odd corners of the world. Looking back, I wish I had some kind of record... So, the fight against FOOD AMNESIA as well as ANTICIPATED FUTURE AMUSEMENT definitely play a part.
Once I decided I would buckle down and do this, like all of two days ago, I started poking around on the web and of course stumbled over Tucker Shaw's endlessly fascinating work, from which I borrowed the title for this blog (Tucker, you're an inspiration!). Tucker also provided the ANTHROPOLOGICAL angle. While I'm less convinced than he is of the value that posterity will place on a record of the varieties of food enjoyed at this time of history on the glorious West Coast, I'm hoping that at least my bright and curious goddaughter in Germany will be intrigued to find out there's more to food in the US of A than McDonalds.

Everything I Ate - Japan

Tuesday, April 22, 2008