Wednesday, August 21, 2013

introductions

Greetings! I'm Merit La Frenière and I eat food.
I live in a food-obsessed culture.
I live in a world dominated by soulless agribusiness and lunatic processed food.
I also live amongst foodies and health-nuts, whose lives are so preoccupied with their next meal,that they are no fun anymore.

I want to have fun. 

I'm also a female of my species, which indicates but does not guarantee that I come with a host of food issues.

But, being a carbon-based organic lifeform--and since I don't have chloroform in my leaves to manufacture energy from the sun, I must take it in from elsewhere. Which means, I have to eat.

And I want to eat. Not only because it's good for me. But because it's fun.

I also need beauty in my life. Food can be--and should be--a beautiful thing.
 
George Forster (American, 1817–1896) Still Life with Fruit and Wine Glass


I humbly assert that it would be good for our health, if most of my food crazed countryfolk could relax and have more fun with food. 

Emphasize its BEAUTY.

View it less as a test of character, or an elixir to ward off death.

I put this blog together 1) because I like to put together blogs and make doo-hickeys for them 2) a vessel to place all the food info which passes through my hands and could do some good for someone other than me 3) a soapbox for some of my stronger food opinions. 

And so, inspired by the MUSE, I therefore begin.