Why Are We Here?

I guess the done thing is to maybe explain who I am and what I plan to talk about on here.

I can't really say I've blogged before, I have friends who do it but I'm shy in most circumstances (unless faced with my favorite musicians, and then suddenly, it's sociable Joo) so I sat quietly by. That is until I realized I like talking about food, and with my shiny new culinary degree I might just have things to say that people would want to listen to. So here I am.

For a personal background, I am an Australian living in America - although I can assure you I rarely utter words like g'day or crikey - I've traveled to various parts of the world and can't seem to sit still. Cooking may not have been my first profession, I worked in politics before I decided making people happy through baked goods was a more noble pursuit. I love music and the written word and nothing relaxes me more than standing in a kitchen, mixing something together. The rest of the world just slips away when I am baking, time ceases to move and I just know that if I mix the right things together, the right way, the end result will be perfect.

I am constantly baking and mailing cookies to my friends all around America, something one or two of them have suggested I should charge for and sell online, right now I just use them to bribe people.

So here I plan to talk about things I bake, and other culinary related things that inspire me, like amazing cookbooks or perhaps something I ate that was noteworthy. I can probably even answer questions if you have baked something that maybe didn't turn out right, or you need to know how to make something work properly. I might accidentally mention music or books a time too many, bear with me, they're the other things that relax me. And let's not forget the foodporn.

Cheers,
Joo

P.S. If I am talking about things I have made and don't post the recipe, just ask me for it and I will email it to you. I'm not hoarding them, I just don't want to bulk up posts with the technicalities!