Do I really
need another blog?
Nobody
needs a blog. I do like writing and reading about food. I like food.
I love to cook. This blog will give me the opportunity to continue
doing this and centralize the Food Goddess projects.
Expanding
the ongoing conversation with family, friends, and my Bacon Posse is
awesome; learning and trying new ingredients, new methods, gadgets,
and spanning cultural and national boundaries dish by dish a great
incentive.
The true
labor of love is finding great, relatively easy recipes that can be
tweaked in a variety of ways to prepare and consume great food.
This space
is not necessarily about selling books, though the cookbooks
(ebook and paperback) are certainly for sale and I hope to release
more volumes. The Amapola
Press blog will carry all the publishing news, but if new volumes
are in the works, or available for sale, I will mention it here as
well.
When I
start working again, I hope to add restaurant reviews. In Brooklyn,
Bay Ridge has a plethora of fantastic restaurants; Park Slope and the
Heights have great bistros and cafes. Living in New York City does
have its advantages in terms of great culinary adventures.
The Twitter
feed will continue to run every weekend, providing relatively easy
recipes for weekend chefs, some spectacular food porn, brown bagging
ideas, and seasonal ideas for tailgating and/or picnics. These are
aggregated recipes from the Internet which sounds like things I wish
to try in my own kitchen, but also things for which family, friends,
and readers have expressed an interest or desire.
When I do
try these and then tweak them at least once, I will include the
results here. This space also lends itself to book reviews and
critiques of other published works.
On
Pinterest
I have aggregated some of the archives from the original Food Goddess
food columns. Technical issues with that site have stalled some
articles, but when they are resolved I may post there as well as
here. For the moment, there are dozens or articles in the archives
that served as the foundation for the original cookbook.
Also on
Pinterest,
there's a Bacon board. Everybody should have a Bacon Board! And
apparently there is a request for a tome on the definitive book on
bacon, which I have accepted as a challenge – because that's the
kind of person I am...
On
Facebook, my page Food
Porn Aficionado remains open to all (not so my personal page
which is reserved for family and personal friends only). I have
considered and even designed a page for Amapola Press but I feel it
is redundant with a Google+
page already in existence and the Amapola
Press website. I'm simply not sure what more I could add that was
unique to the page – without going insane trying to manage all that
online presence.
So, why do
I need another blog? Because it feels natural to centralize all the
culinary stuff together and a blog allows me a different venue with
which to post longer pieces that do not lend themselves to Twitter
with its 140-word limit or Pinterest
with its focus on visual images.
Like all my
writing projects, this is a work-in-progress and I rely on you to let
me know if there are topics, foods, products, cuisines that you'd
like me to explore – because collaboration is always more fun!
I think
this will probably start heavily skewed to Caribbean and Latin
American foods, because that was the plan for the third volume of the
Food Goddess series. This remains mostly a labor of love. The plan is
to give you something interesting to read once a week and ideas to
take to your own kitchen.
You may
leave suggestions here, at the Amapola Press Google+ page or the
Facebook's Food Porn Aficionado with ideas, requests, complains or
opinions about past, current and upcoming posts.
I'm thinking of starting with arepas – does that sound good to y'all?
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