Giving Food Some Food for Thought

Welcome to Simply Scrumdiddlyumptious! This blog is dedicated to everything simple and sweet (but mostly sweet), as well as giving food some food for thought. In our busy, crazy, sometimes hurricane-wrecked lives, it can be hard sometimes to slow down and take a look at just what's sitting in front of us. That's how this blog was born. I started looking.


Without diving into a long-winded history about myself, I've had a love-hate relationship with food for the past three years, where my tastebuds do the loving and I (and my jeans) do the hating. So what I propose--for myself, but also for anyone else who is interested--is to follow a day-to-day progress towards simply giving food the thought it deserves again.


Well, and what does she mean by that? you're asking yourself. Good question. My goal is to post one picture a day of something I made, ate, or (in the rare event that a lunatic yeti runs by warbling and smashing every camera within my reach for the day) love to eat. Then, to accompany this picture, I will post some form of artwork--another picture, a drawing, a book, a movie, a quote, or maybe even a thought--of which the food reminds me. (In the event that I really just haven't eaten anything appetizing that day, the reverse will apply--a book or an activity I've read/done during the day and the food it evokes.) And hopefully, I'll include an explanation, too.


One picture and one fun association for each and every day, for one year. And through this, to not only get in touch with my own body again, but just to put some thought back into what's sitting in front of us on that plate. That's my goal. 


Will I achieve it? Who knows? I have yet to make those Pumpkin Pasties (and the day I do, you will all be graced by a life-size internet picture of Harry Potter, I swear) or crack open those two Julia Child cookbooks I got last Christmas, but my intention is to also delve into new foods that already have associations for us, whether literary or otherwise. In case I haven't mentioned it, I study English literature. And I'm also an unofficial, chaotic chef. Hi. Nice to meet you, too.


So cooking my way through the days. Through books. Through my life. And giving food back its thought. Cheers to that!