Oh My A New Blog! And All About Food Nonetheless...

I Love Good Food

This is my new blog exclusively about food. It will me mirrored on my website mattlax.com and possibly some other places if I see them fit. Food is a huge passion of mine, and the only thing I think about regularly enough to have a blog devoted to it.

I will write about food I grow, cook, eat, or do anything else with (no I don't get naughty with food, there are certain lines that even I don't cross). This will include everything from restaurant reviews to recipes to philosophical waxings on foodways.

Restaurant Reviews, Tasty Imagery, Recipies, and Food Source Issues

Let me tell you a little about myself. I was born in September of 1982, and grew up in the state of Vermont, USA. I am a male human of jewish blood, but not particularly practice. My mother is a Culinary Institute of America (that's CIA brotha) train chef. I am an avid cook and eater, and make many attempts at growing my own food, although I am quite bad at it still.

I am a full omnivore, and will eat anything non-toxic at least once. Lately I have been consuming a increasingly vegetarian diet. This is not to say that I have stopped eating meat, but simply that I am make a very solid attempt to reduce the amount of meat I eat. This is for a number of reasons:

1. I just plain feel healthier when I eat meat no more than once a day.
2. I feel the consumption of meat is an unsustainable practice, and that by exercising the privilege of doing so one forces others around the into starvation, as well as horribly damaging the planet.
3. Much meat available to consumers has been processed or grown in ways that disgust me (hormones, preservatives, dyes, etc.).
4. Cooking in a meatless kitchen is a joy. It is so nice not having to constantly worry about whether something is cooked "enough" (enough with meat means that it wont make people sick, enough without meat simply means the right texture/consistency). Furthermore, cleanup in a meatless kitchen is a breeze!

The heart of it is number two. I just know that there are way to many people on this planet for us all to eat hamburgers; which means every time you do someone else loses out in a big way (read: starves).

Anyway, now that you have at least some sense of where I'm coming from, subscribe to this blog and I promise I'll keep you drooling AND entertained.