So, I have also decide that I need to talk about a couple of food-related sources that I have found to be quite interesting. The first is this book: Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel. In order to compile this book, the author went around to a bunch of different countries and asked a family from each to take a picture with all of the food that they would normally eat. There are also essays about the political and cultural climates of the countries while at the same time tying them into food. This is certainly right up my alley. The same author has another book called A Material World. I have bought several copies of this book to give as gifts and own one myself. It uses the same concept, but instead of with food the families stand outside of their houses with all of their material possessions. Both books give a very insiteful and unique view of the world and I highly recommend checking them out if you ever wind up bored in a bookstore.
The second thing is a website called Taste Spotting. They update the page at least a few times a day with links to different blogs about food that people have submitted. There are very often extremely creative and interesting ideas and foods that show up. I look at this website more than any other and am always so excited to see what is going to be on there next. Jenn introduced it to me and we are always talking about things that we have seen on there. You can click on the link up there to access the page if you would like to check it out. It is well worth it in my opinion!
In other happenings, a guy from my culinary class gave me a huge bag of collard greens yesterday. He was harvesting them and asked me if I wanted them last week and I said sure, not really thinking that he was serious. Sure enough he showed up with a huge bag of them. So I get to have my first experience with cooking them tomorrow. I better watch out- if I'm not careful I am on my way to becoming southern. :-)
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