Cook the Story

It’s all about the story. Except when it’s about the food.

It’s funny how our stories change. If I’d been writing this blog 10 years ago it would have been about living in Toronto’s Danforth (a.k.a. Greek Town) and I’d have been talking restaurants and farmers’ markets, concerts and street festivals, my boyfriend and grad school.

Now I live in Florida. I talk quick recipes and kid-friendly food, breastfeeding and potty-training, my husband and politics.

I’m not sure what I’ll be talking about 10 years from now but I do know that getting there will be an adventure in food and family fun (or rather, food and family insanity).

Me:

I’m a Canadian married to a Brit. We live in Florida and have a 4-year-old son and a wee baby girl. I have a Masters degree in Linguistics and a PhD A.B.D. (all those letters after PhD are just fancy talk for “incomplete and likely to stay that way”. To distract you from my incompleteness look to the right at a picture of me, complete with pumpkins).

Me and Food:

My food background comes from a childhood spent in the kitchen with my mom and my Baba and from spending summers, evenings and weekends working in my parents’ restaurants (and in other restaurants) while growing up and throughout my undergraduate years.

• Read about my family’s restaurant history.

• Read about an origin of my family’s food passion.

• Find out about a typical year at my brother and his wife’s current restaurant.

• Read about one of my first cooking experiences.

Me and Writing:

For years I’ve known that I hadn’t yet found a job/career/field that fit. Last year I was doing laundry while listening to a food podcast when the words “freelance food-writer” punched me in the belly. I froze in the middle of the living room. That was it. I knew it. I walked to my laptop, clicked in those heart-pounding words, did some reading and fell in love. A food blog was the natural place to start.

As a grad student I had done a ton of writing but writing about food is a totally new arena. I’m learning more and loving it more all the time; seventeen months in and it still feels like I’m climbing into a new cozy grey hoodie every day (i.e., I like it!).

Other people seem to think I’m o.k. at it too. Check out where my writing has been featured.

Please let me know what you think of my food stories and my recipes. I’ll keep cooking and writing if you keep eating and reading.

Christine

Contact email: christine@cookthestory.com