Welcome new readers! I don't really know how to kick this whole thing off, so this is just a short introduction to what this blog is and how it came about.
This blog is the outcome of multiple years worth of requests and suggestions from friends and some family members that I write a food blog. I've gone from surprised that anybody would care what I had to say about anything, to flattered but resistant, and finally I have decided to give it a try. Like most of you, I spend a lot of my time eating, usually as often as twice or three times a day! Possibly unlike many of you, I also spend a lot of my free time cooking, planning what I'm going to eat, learning about different types of food, discovering new restaurants, etc. Apparently, some people in my life think that the things that I have to say about all of these processes are interesting, and worth reading about. I don't know if that's true. Frankly, I finally decided to create this blog because writing about something fun and satisfying and soul-feeding seemed like a good hobby to develop as I embark on a lifelong study of violence and atrocity.
Part of my initial resistance to starting a blog about food, as that there are a million such blogs in the world, many of which are shockingly good. I'm not a chef, so a blog entirely devoted to recipes seemed like a bit of a stretch, but including some recipes seemed like a nice idea since sometimes I cook some cool stuff. I'm also not a food critic, and I don't have the money to eat out all the time in New York City, so restaurant reviews also seemed a bit of a stretch. On the other hand, I have a mini-reputation for discovering delicious, interesting places to eat, and I thought some of those would be good to share. I also thought the idea of how to eat when you're a grad student on a limited, fixed income was kind of interesting to write about. I know from my high school English class, however, that a blog, like any good story (because really, isn't a blog just an ongoing story?) needs to have a clear premise, so just jumbling together a bunch of posts about food would quickly lose any sense of premise and devolve into disorganization. This blog is a compromise of this jumble of ideas.
This will be a blog about what is for dinner. Each day...well...no promises...MOST days, I will write an entry about what I (and my partners in crime) ate for dinner. If we ate out, I'll review the restaurant, tell you about the food, recommend it or not. If we cooked, I'll include recipes, links, notes and reviews of the outcome. But Megan, I hear you saying, what if you aren't feeling well and put yourself to bed with nothing but crackers?!?! Thank you for asking! The nice thing about having travelled as much as I have the last few years, and having resisted creating a food blog for so long is that I have a huge list of cool things I have eaten in cool places just hanging out in my brain. Some of them even have good stories behind them. So, on particularly boring days, I will do What's for Dinner Flashbacks. I promise in advance to tell you about the best bakery in Barcelona, and the only place to get proper Somun in Sarajevo.
I want to say up front that I have no idea whether this is a good idea or whether it will work. I don't know if you will find these musings interesting or not. I don't know for sure whether I will be disciplined enough to keep up, but I'm going to give it a try, and I hope you'll give it a try along with me. I also hope that, along the way, you'll give me feedback on whether you're enjoying the ride or not. Since at this moment I have zero readers and zero posts, there is nowhere to go from here but up. So, welcome, and enjoy the meals!
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