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.