Why blog another blog about food?

Like most kids, i was a picky eater so I won't dwell on that. That being said, what I relish the most now about my childhood is that it was full of eating adventures and, in retrospect, mighty fine cooks.

I can probably count on one hand the number of times we went to a restaurant. Rites of passage celebrations were catered by the loving hands of my aunts and my mom. There culinary expertise was firmly rooted in Eastern European and Italian kitchens. Trays of lasagna, noodles and sauce and often cheeses were diplayed proudly next to pans of galumpki or halupki depending on how the spellings were bastardized, pieroghi, yellow wax bean soup, potato latkes and on and on. Oh, the real treat for me, pickled pigs feet, noe politely referred to in culinary circles as "trotters.". These women were culinary giants and as I watch Wolfgang Puck turn out a creamed cabbage quenelle or Michael Symon prepare a dish with trotters, I confidently realize I am the product of iron chef kitchens. The prize, whose dish received the most compliments. And oh the litter boxes came out. Helen's cabbage rolls were to salty, Margaret's were the best. Catherine's nut roll split but had the best blend of honey to nuts. And, of course, the pieroghis. My Aunt Margaret made the best.

So, why another blog about food? All of us have an archeological dig of food memories. Some good, some not. But the ingredients are there. Life takes us on unexpected journeys and places but we need to nourish our bodies. I will take the reader around my town and beyond and maybe entice them to take their own culinary adventure.

In another blog I will write about ingredients and cooking and turning out chemical free ( as free as humanly possible) energizing dishes for our bodies and souls.

As i write this i am all to aware that there are people in our own country and arounf the world who are malnourished and dying from dehydration and starvation. If the reader is so inclined, support local food banks and reputable world food relief organizations. No one should go to bed hungry but there are those that do