Tonight I'll be going to see Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dillema, at the Strathmore in Maryland. I will be attending with my mother after a dinner, and I will be bringing a notebook and my camera. If possible, I will try to take notes and/or video of the lecture. I'm extrememly excited.
Today I managed to bring in my main reference book, On Food And Cooking: The Science And Lore of the Kitchen, and I will be keeping it here along with my other to encyclopedic volumes. I'm slowly buiding a library. c: I'm considering bringing in my copy of Salt and a couple other books, but not sure I want to keep them here where they're not locked up.
I still need to bring in the transfer chip for my camera, but then I can start to move over pictures and build larger posts and tutorials. I still need something to present, so I'm going to try and write up in a more colloquial way starting tomorrow. For now I will be making a list of movies and books I'd like to read and see. I've already submitted a list of movies to our tech people at the school so that I might be authorized to stream them via Netflix during school hours. Otherwise I will see if I can get copies through the public library and watch them on the school computers.
Will not be here Friday, as I will be leaving school early to make the trip down to Charlotte, NC, to visit Johnson & Wales's campus there. Hopefully at that time or before I'll find out whether or not I've been accepted. JWU is my top school and I really really really really want to go there to study food. Though I'm not yet sure if I want to work practicals or theory (kitchen versus office) I know I want to study there because they have very good programs on all of their campuses. Ideally I'd be at Miami, but if Charlotte looks good I might go there because it's closer to home and family. There's also a fairly large lesbian population nearby, which would be a great support to me.
15 minutes left in my day before I leave, so I will wrap up by saying that I feel that I am finally starting to make progress on this. I have gathered a lot of information and I'm looking forward to being able to articulate my thoughts in a way that I can share with other people. I really hope that I can turn this into something as interesting for other peopel as it is for me.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Initial Post
This is my senior year at Brooke Point High School in Stafford, VA. I'm 17, and planning to be involved with food for my whole life, if only at the very basic level of comsuming it. At this point in time, however, I'm in love with how food is grown, created, eaten and viewed in the world and through history. I'm very fortunate in that I had a free space in my schedule this year, and that I was able to come up with a proposal to present to my FOCUS teacher, Mrs.Stemple.
The focus of my study was supposed to be food. I wanted to break it into a few simple chapters, that I could write enthusiastically about each day that I was in school for my project, and then, if it was classy and well-written, possibly submit for publication. I wanted to include maps for units like salt or animal migrations, and forest structures, and charts of things like plant structures and illustrated guides for pickling. Amazing, interesting things that would look good printed and bound.
As it is, I am two months into school and have just barely started writing. The first quarter is over, and I have little to show for it. I have spent much of my year so far reading fascinating but not necessarily relevant information from a number of source books, looking at blogs and reading some nonfiction novels and even watching some documentaries. I have been trying to take notes while doing this, but I have yet to decide what I want to do with all these notes. Mostly I think I'd rather just keep gathering information in my head. it's so interesting, and I could talk for hours if I started on a good subject, but simply writing in a word processor, especially at school, is so very, very difficult.
Therefore I have started this blog in the hope that the more candid and familiar style of writing (with the exception of the first few posts, as I have to switch out of my overly formal school writing style) will encourage me to write. I have several documented cooking stages I've done and can turn into an analyzed chemical process, which I plan to do as soon as I remember to bring in my camera and the download chip. Thing like a ginger-apple pie, a double chocolate spice birthday cake, curry, etc. Mostly just really pretty foods that I egotically took photos of as I cooked in the hopes of sharing it online on my personal blog.
I'm not a real food blogger. I don't write a lot of recipes, and though I love to cook and plan to do it professionally, I rarely cook at home for my family. Much of my personal cooking is in fact stress baking, things like pies that are time consuming and declicious and beautiful and perfect and round.
I am however, extremely smart (if I do say so myself) and I have a passion for what I'm supposed to be studying about. I only hope that this passion makes up for the apparent lack of drive I have.
Before the end of the month, only a few days from now, I hope to have at the very least started in on a presentation I could make to my culinary arts class on the subject of sugars, fats and salt. The culinary class is the only one I could think of to make this relevant. I've been reading a lot about sugars and salts especially, but I have no idea what apsect of fats I would present. The end of the first quarter is nearing and I desperately need to have something to show for it.
The focus of my study was supposed to be food. I wanted to break it into a few simple chapters, that I could write enthusiastically about each day that I was in school for my project, and then, if it was classy and well-written, possibly submit for publication. I wanted to include maps for units like salt or animal migrations, and forest structures, and charts of things like plant structures and illustrated guides for pickling. Amazing, interesting things that would look good printed and bound.
As it is, I am two months into school and have just barely started writing. The first quarter is over, and I have little to show for it. I have spent much of my year so far reading fascinating but not necessarily relevant information from a number of source books, looking at blogs and reading some nonfiction novels and even watching some documentaries. I have been trying to take notes while doing this, but I have yet to decide what I want to do with all these notes. Mostly I think I'd rather just keep gathering information in my head. it's so interesting, and I could talk for hours if I started on a good subject, but simply writing in a word processor, especially at school, is so very, very difficult.
Therefore I have started this blog in the hope that the more candid and familiar style of writing (with the exception of the first few posts, as I have to switch out of my overly formal school writing style) will encourage me to write. I have several documented cooking stages I've done and can turn into an analyzed chemical process, which I plan to do as soon as I remember to bring in my camera and the download chip. Thing like a ginger-apple pie, a double chocolate spice birthday cake, curry, etc. Mostly just really pretty foods that I egotically took photos of as I cooked in the hopes of sharing it online on my personal blog.
I'm not a real food blogger. I don't write a lot of recipes, and though I love to cook and plan to do it professionally, I rarely cook at home for my family. Much of my personal cooking is in fact stress baking, things like pies that are time consuming and declicious and beautiful and perfect and round.
I am however, extremely smart (if I do say so myself) and I have a passion for what I'm supposed to be studying about. I only hope that this passion makes up for the apparent lack of drive I have.
Before the end of the month, only a few days from now, I hope to have at the very least started in on a presentation I could make to my culinary arts class on the subject of sugars, fats and salt. The culinary class is the only one I could think of to make this relevant. I've been reading a lot about sugars and salts especially, but I have no idea what apsect of fats I would present. The end of the first quarter is nearing and I desperately need to have something to show for it.
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