A Blog? How Original!

Here’s something you haven’t seen: a blog by me!

This one’s about good food: where to get it, how to prepare it, and, above all, how to enjoy it.

I’ll write about interesting books and magazines, restaurants, recipes, foodstuffs, wine and spirits, cigars, kitchenware, cutlery, music, arts, even tablecloths or whatever interesting I find that has something to do with food.

Me, me, me

I’ve always enjoyed food, but only in the last few years have I really started to get into cooking. Now I cook at least once a day – sometimes three times a day – depending on how busy I am. And as time passed, I got bored with just getting the pasta perfectly al dente – I got experimental and dishes of far away places and especially recipes from long ago started to interest me more and more.

I started to look for great restaurants in my home town and the cities I was travelling to, and started gathering interesting books and magazines I could find that were even remotely food-related.

There’s always a “But”

It’s not going to be just a foodie blog, a gourmet blog, a recipe blog or a restaurant blog, though. It’ll probably turn out to be a mixture of all of those, but I’ll also keep an eye on the health side of the matters.

Some years ago I started going to the gym and, in between work-outs, reading Men’s Health magazine. (I guess it felt appropriate given the surroundings).

After a while I started to notice that while the article on page 26 would tell you to eat more oranges, page 57 might suggest replacing the oranges with whatever the tireless researchers had found that particular month to be more effective for weight-loss, keeping blood sugar levels balanced, or giving you more stamina in the bedroom. Next month there would be yet new discoveries on how oranges help you lose weight in some new ways.

(Weight loss. Sigh. Magazines, papers and internet sometimes make you wonder if the only purpose of eating is to optimize the shedding of grams off your waist while devouring as much as you can.)

So I’ll just occasionally throw in findings the modern science is making on the field of food and nutrition. When looking at the big picture, those findings (not unlike common sense suggests) seem to prove again and again, that you should enjoy modest amounts of as many different types of foods as possible to stay healthy.

…And that’s not all!

Of course it doesn’t end there. There’s always the question of ethics (killing for food, feeding the starving nations) and environment (the effects of farming on nature, recycling). These all affect what we eat, whether by a conscious choice or unknowingly.

The odd article about health, nutrition, ethics or environment doesn’t mean that this will be the blog for weight watchers, body builders or tree-huggers, though. The emphasis of Foodström will be on the pleasure the food brings – whether to the eye, the nose, the palate, or to the body.

Although ultimately it’s not possible to separate enjoyment, health and environment when talking about food.