This blog is hitting the road...again!

Friday, December 26, 2008

This blog is hitting the road...again!

We're off on an end-of-year road trip to New Mexico, Ritesh, the blog and I , so hopefully there'll be some interesting food adventures ahead. Yay!

We won't be back until early January, so just in case I don't get mobile blogging figured out, here's a classic German New Year's tradition for you to partake in: Dinner For One

This little sketch has been on German TV every New Year's Eve (and only ever on New Year's Eve) for many decades, and it's probably safe to say that there's no German who hasn't seen it at least once. Last year on Dec 31, it aired 19 times, on different stations, and I'm assuming it's about the same number this year. So sit back and enjoy - it gets funnier the more often you watch it, particularly if you drink along with poor James... :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

1 comment:

MONSTER said...: Happy New Year to you! Will miss your food blog but looking forward to 2009 blog, and hopefully some guest appearances of some wonderful looking foods! We'll have to try the Culver City pho shop, it's called "Pho Sho" on Sepulveda, don't know if you've been Also, just wanted to let you know the Harissa pasta sauce was OUTSTANDING! We ate it over 2 nights, with some chicken apple sausage...it was so rich and yummy...you guys are great cooks!

See you soon!; December 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM

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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

Friday, December 26, 2008