The 2006 entry!

[tofucheeks]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I have decided, after some thinking (approx. 2.36 seconds) that the theme for 2006 should be food! This is the year i properly recovered from anorexia and rediscovered the great adventure that it is - rice and gravies, mushrooms tossed with tofu and chopped onions; all, of course, totally organic and fat-free (some things will stick). Also, it's the year i properly committed myself to a cause - that of fighting hunger - and applied to study geography/business/development for my undergraduate degree with the hope of pursuing sustainable development work in the region (or wherever they might need me!). All in all, a decidedly food year!



1. The beautiful food blog i got the above image from. It's maintained by Keiko, a Japanese food blogger goddess based in the UK.
2. A bread recipe and a mushroom one (my two favourite food groups - and the two dishes i've actually tried): focaccia bread (this will even work with amateurs!) and the delightfully nutritious miso shiitake breakfast soup. Also, here are keiko's thoughts on breadmaking and one of the most delicious-looking posts from her blog: summer fruit!
3. Some food science things: the year in health fads (greens out, marijuana in), hunger dictates who men fancy, tea is healthier than water, the paleolithic diet and intuitive eating. Also, for the shape conscious, a list of thermogenic foods.
4. ... and some art: the luncheon meat mosaic, butter yoda and darth vader, Juel Grant's eggshell art, marzipan babies and miniatures on food (highly recommended!).
5. Now, for the quirks: high-tech, olfactory cuisine, the breakfast terrorist, how to make a cornflake sound and...living on monkey chow.
6. Some interesting food and food-related inventions: the musical sandwich, the darth vader popcorn machine, cheestos lip balm, politically-incorrect sauces, the single cookie jar, laser-etched sushi and the robotic wine taster.
7. And a meme-of-sorts to top it of: the disgusting food generator!


This promises to be a long post, for several reasons. First, I haven't blogged in ages - i've been in and out of a testy flu for about a week and have spent most of my fevered delerium doing the kind of shit you expect geeks to do (one hand grasping mucousy tissue, the other a mucousy mouse): signing up to a flurry of social networks (last.fm - for music, librarything - for cataloging books, editred - for my original prose/poetry and meeting other writers, wishlist, myspace) and, most importantly, del.icio.us, where i spent the last four days cataloging over 7400 bookmarks (!!) for every bit of info i've amassed over 2 years (everything from aborignes to zoos); caught up with my favourite rpg, kingdom of loathing; read my dictionary of theories and very short introduction on descartes and wrote naruto fanfiction. Please feel free to add me as a friend to any of the above!

Second, I have a lot of things to blog about. So many in fact, that i must list them first, less i forget. (This has, predictably, made me rather terrified to start this blog post at all!):

1. update about my life, the weather and christmas
2. random, juicy tidbits from the interweb
3. new year resolutions - what will be happening with me in 2007!
4. beautiful books and music i've discovered
5. some new, original prose
6. recs for my flist: music, literature, movies, links

To keep things neat, I'll have separate posts (maybe two or three; if not, six!) over this week till New Year, so feel free to watch this space. Till then,

<3!