Writers block....

This is the third time that I have written this blog entry.

I am a decent cook not a great cook but I love to play with food. And I feel lucky to be in this class which allows me to make a game out of cooking – and see what other people do while they play as well. I have been lucky to work in several places that have allowed me to be inventive with food with out repercussions – that is as long as the food tasted good!

Using the flavor profile to make soup was a great way to learn how ‘whip something up’. Then using parts of several flavors to make the same soup but different was even more fun, as well as educational and useful. In the real world of cooking, deliveries are not always on time. You do not always get what you order, or you get twice of what you ordered and your receiver was asleep and did not sent it back! Or as I mentioned before in my earlier blog, maybe you need to whip up a fast staff meal on the fly. Both my groups’ soups came out great. One was Italian flavored, Sophia’s profile. The second soup was a fusion style soup, it came out with an almost Asian flavors, very subtle and fresh tasting. I put to much limejuice in it, and Katherine managed to save it!

An interesting definition of what fusion cooking can be or not - http://www.thegutsygourmet.net/fusion.html

Flavor profiles and chicken soup;

http://www.ivillage.co.uk/print/0,,168151,00.html

Elizabeth Rozin again…

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues97/mar97/around_mar97.html


Using an emotion to style your food was another good exercise. How many times have I gone into my kitchen and done exactly that. My results at home are not nearly as creative as the ones I tasted in class.

The presentations that we had in class that Saturday were also very informative. I never gave so much thought to soy sauces before. It was pretty amazing how different they tasted. Rachel’s presentation on how to come up with ideas for writing was very neat and concise. I have always been one to walk around and look for new things. Besides of new ways of finding things to write about, I also learned a few things about Brooklyn – which is where I live!