I'm a little new to this thing called blogging and to be honest, I'm still trying to figure out this new medium out. Before I begin, I want to put it out there that there are things that this blog will be and things that it won't be. Since I was an English major with a penchant for comma splices and the occasional sentence fragment, I need to explain to my blog-audience that I'm a habitually bad self-editor and therefore this blog will not be grammatically perfect; it will be entertaining but it won't be perfect.
However, despite my bad grammar, what I hope FLAVOR PICNIC will be is a smorgasbord of food writing in a wide-variety of forms and mediums. My goal with FLAVOR PICNIC is to develop my professional writing voice while not loosing myself. I want to be able to experiment with many different kinds of food writing and so you may not always see consistency in the format of my posts. In addition to a newly found love of food photography that I will share snippets of on this blog, I hope to be able to write on many food topics: cookbook reviews; recipe ideas and inspirations that will show how one ingredient can be used in a number of ways; love letters to my hero Mark Bittman; PICNIC menus; pros and cons of different food equipment; restaurant and food product reviews; and ways in which food has changed our culture. Hopefully by using my skills as a researcher, I can learn and begin to communicate and teach my blog-readers about the roots of the food that we eat everyday without thought.
I realize these are lofty ideas but I hope that with time and patience from those of you who will hopefully become my faithful readers, I can hone my skills and carve out a voice for myself. Thank you for reading and Bon Appetit!
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I feel honoured (Canadian/English version of the spelling, can't seem to kick the habit) to be your first official follower of what sounds like a very ambitious project! I guess that since I am your father and have a biased opinion of your writing and photographic skills, maybe that doesn't count for much. But nonetheless, I am looking forward to being a faithful follower and reading each blog entry religiously. I expect to be entertained and informed as a fellow foodie!
ReplyDeleteI have been so proud of your writing and photos on your first blog (for those who are not aware: it is called "Do chef coats come in Tiffany blue?"). I have found it to be informative, funny and entertaining. However, the most enjoyable part for me reading it, is that the blog illustrates your personality perfectly. I wish you luck in this new blog endeavour which I understand will be a more serious undertaking. I do hope that even though you are going to be writing in a variety of forms, branching out into several different subjects, doing more research, etc. that each blog will retain your enthusiastic and sometimes sassy approach to food journalism.
Big HUGS,
DAD