Gastronomy 101

One thing I love to do is make preserves. I don't really need to. I don't have anywhere to grow anything at my apartment and the gardeners do not take kindly to outside plants anyway. SO it's not like I have extra fruits and vegetables laying around that I need to do stuff with. I live in a large metropolitan area and can easily purchase whatever I need for myself, so it's not like I need to put up a whole bunch of food for the winter. Nor do I have a large pantry where I can store it. Nonetheless, I like the process of making preserves and I like having a little jar of something in the fridge to use as accents for my meals. Also, one of my good memories is from one summer in my teenage/college years where my family friend Karen invited me to help her make jam from the berries that grew on her property. It was a fun day and there was a nice sense of accomplishment from picking all of the berries ourselves and then making them into many jars of jam. I was pretty proud o

So it's been a while since I've posted and for that I apologize. These days most of my income comes from writing various things and I generally have some type of writing to work on each day, which makes it hard sometimes for me to come and then also write a blog. But I'm not ready to give it up yet, I still have many lovely food pictures to put up when I have the right stories to go with them. I have one post incoming directly after this one, but I wanted to give an abundance of content to make up for the lack. One of the places I have been writing for is a new online magazine: Osmosis Online . Osmosis features entertaining articles about different aspects of culture including arts and entertainment, politics, and food/drink. So I'm gonna go ahead and link to two of my food/drink related articles here: The Movable Feast: Food Cart Cuisine : In this article I take a look at the many different types of food available from mobile food stands across the country. This type o