Have you thought of how connected we are to what we eat and how what we eat connects us to others? I have, and I would like to discuss it.
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Thawing out my food writing, and getting back into the frying pan
I lost my passion for writing about food.
If I am being honest with myself that is the short and sweet of it. I found myself in a space where I had no confidence in what I was putting out into the world. I had lost the ability to create new recipes, I had lost the ambition to write on a consistent basis, and my food podcast I started never really gained traction hurt me. All of these things, and more, led me into a deep dark mental space and I was not healthy enough to pull myself out of it.
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A Game of Our Own: Father, Daughter, and a Shared Love for the Game of Golf
“Daddy! Daddy! Look! Girls play golf too!”
As Fathers’ Day approaches and my daughter’s love for the game of golf continues to grow, somehow even faster than she is, I felt the urge to write about our shared passion for this wonderful game. One of the great joys of being a father for me has been sharing the immense joy that golf brings to be with my daughter, and we’re still just scratching the surface of this shared love.
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My Favorite Restaurant in New Orleans
Spoiler alert, it’s not in the French Quarter and if you don’t live in New Orleans it’s likely somewhere you’ve never heard of.
I can’t count the number of times that I’ve been asked what my favorite restaurant in New Orleans is. It’s extremely difficulty, if not impossible, to answer that question. On any given day it could be five different restaurants dependent upon the mood that I am in and the vibe that I am going for. Second spoiler alert… I do have a favorite restaurant. I’ll highlight a few others first though.
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My Tribe: Finding My Tribe in an Internet Message Board
“I am just grateful I found my tribe”.
– Kevin Van Valkenburg, a member of my tribe
I met him four days prior heading the opposite direction as we began our trip together riding the rental car shuttle at Raleigh Durham airport to pick up our ride for the next few days. Now there he and I were after four days of hundreds of golf swings, countless jokes both face to face and in group texts, and many many libations prepared to say goodbye and more importantly “see you later”. Who is he? Well he’s The Cheetah Man to me. He, like the rest of the internet strangers who were a part of those wonderful four days of golf in Pinehurst, North Carolina is a member of my tribe.
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Food and Love and Family
Most of the food that you see me post on my social media on here or on my blog are efforts at me recreating the meals that I grew up on. The basis of the name of my blog, Food is Love Made Edible, is that I believe that food is one of the many ways that we can express love without saying “I love you.” With a trip to my local grocery store and the knowledge passed down to me by mom and aunts I can recreate the flavors of my childhood in my kitchen for myself and my family.
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My 6 Month Journey Through Spain… Wines: Month 1, Oct. 2020 – The Journey Begins
It’s October 21st and I’m sitting here on my front porch enjoying a bottle of Raul Perez on an uncomfortably warm Fall evening I decided I should journal my way through the 6 month Spanish wine journey. Why am I on a 6 month journey through Spanish wines you may ask? Well it starts with a golf podcast, well kind of a golf podcast.
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Fresh Hibiscus Tea Anyone?
I had the pleasure of taste testing some hibiscus tea from a black owned tea company based out of Baton Rouge, LA. I won’t lie and say that I am a huge fan of tea, and understand all the nuances of what makes a tea good or bad. Honestly, many of you reading this are likely more well qualified to give review on tea than I am. I hope that y’all won’t judge my amateur thoughts or opinions on the subject of tea too critically, and rather you appreciate my review of Fresh Hibiscus Tea as much as I enjoyed the tea itself.
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Juneteenth Cookout – A Collection of Recipes from Black Chefs & Food Bloggers Celebrating Black Food Culture
I’m participating in the 2020 Juneteenth Cookout Takeover. This initiative was established to encourage the celebration of Juneteenth – a jubilee of freedom to commemorate the end of slavery – and to amplify the food traditions of black culinary creatives.
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The Interesting History of Okra, its African Roots, and How it Made its Way to America
I want to take a moment to look at the influence of black people in the creation of American cuisine. In this particular moment I want to briefly discuss the history of okra. I understand that there are things going on right now in the world much more important than this, but I feel like for many people cooking is a mental escape like it is for me. So I wanted to take a few moments to talk about a vegetable that has a very interesting history.
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My Favorite Netflix Food Documentary Binges
Netflix has a done a wonderful jobs when it comes to documentaries about food. Whether it be about chefs and their restaurants, what exactly makes us eat the foods we eat, or about traveling to places we may have never thought about before for new food experiences. In this blog post I wanted to highlight a few of my favorite Netflix binges when I am in the mood to watch something about food.
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The Tweet That Sent Twitter into an Uproar About Portion Sizing and Food Culture in the Black Community
Let me start by saying that I aim no judgement at anyone involved on either side of this Twitter conversation. I am merely trying to look at the overall conversation a couple days later and figure out exactly what transpired, and why it did.
Food culture is one of my favorite things to talk about. Whether that be the changes in food culture people desiring to eat more naturally (farm to table), or chefs looking to bring back heritage recipe with meats and produce, or chefs looking to change food culture through their restaurant menu. You don’t expect food culture to be changed through a tweet, but just a few days ago I believe that’s exactly what happened.
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What they Don’t Tell Husbands/Significant Others about Pregnancy and Childbirth
To make sure you understand the content of this post I feel it’s important to say that I started this post on Tuesday June 5th and finished it on Sunday July 1st. I also apologize for any grammatical errors in this post; parts of it were very emotional for me to write and I may not always have been at my best with my grammar.
Sitting here in the hospital six days post birth of our daughter looking at my wife connected to numerous IV lines and wires I’m in a bit of a shocked state. We ended up back here in the hospital the evening of postpartum day 5 of due to my wife feeling light headed and having shortness of breath. After arriving at the hospital the nurses and doctors ran numerous tests and determined that she had very elevated blood pressure and signs of Preeclampsia. Once I heard all this my heart started to race and I was terrified, but as a husband I kept my emotions hidden to be strong for my wife. I had to be her strength as I could see how terrified she was at this moment. It was my time to step up as a husband and a father and take care of my wife and my daughter (Who I really felt like I wasn’t ready to take care of; I had never taken care of a child before and now I had this 5-day old child who outside of feeding I had to solely take care of) I had to set my emotions to the side. Not until our friend Rashida showed up to the hospital and I left the hospital to run home and grab a couple things did I burst into tears and let my emotions go.
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Eating, Enjoying, and Surviving Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is like nothing else I have ever experienced. From the parades that seem to go on forever to the balls to the seemingly endless party Carnival season is truly an amazing time of year. Carnival season kicks off with the Epiphany, or Kings’ Day, and ends with Mardi Gras. For those who may not know the Christian connotations of Mardi Gras it is a day of celebrating and feasting before the Lenten fast begins. Mardi Gras can be translated to Fat Tuesday in English.
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New Blog, Who Dis?
For those of you have been following me a while at B Good Eats and Treats or on my Instagram you probably know that I include the hashtag #FoodisLoveMadeEdible in all of my posts. I really have no idea where the phrase came from; it’s something that my mind grabbed a hold of a few years back and has followed me along ever since.
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Organic – What does it actually mean?
We have all heard the term “organic” in regards to food, so it’s pretty safe to say that almost everyone reading this has bought something organic. The real question at hand is as follows: What are we actually getting when we buy organic food vs. regular food from the grocery store? I aim to answer that question in this post. My curiosity in regards to what we are eating on a daily basis is at an all time high, so please bear with me. To keep this post simple, I am going to focus on organic steak vs. conventional non-organic steak.
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Road Trip to Franklin Barbecue in Austin, TX
So, there is a BBQ place in Austin, TX that has been raved about on Food Network, celebrities, friends of mine, just to name a few. I have had great BBQ and tried BBQ all over the country when traveling in my 26 almost 27 years of life. On this journey I asked myself a couple of questions, Why this place? Why do people willingly wait in line 4+ hours for a plate of meat? Can’t you simply just do your own in your backyard or go to any other BBQ place? Of course I had to see what this was about! So here goes nothing!…
You Are Not What You Eat but What You Eat Eats
Being an Engineer when I first read the statement, “You are not what you eat but what you eat eats”, in Dan Barber’s book “The Third Plate”. The first thought that came to my mind was something I learned in college, the Conservation of Energy. I want to start this discussion off with a crash course in physics. The Conservation of Energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it is merely transferred from one form to another. Applying this concept to the food you eat you it can then be said that your body is not made from what you eat but from what you eat eats. Expanding this out on a grander scale it can be said that everything that you have eaten, everything that you have eaten has eaten, and everything that you have eaten has eaten has eaten has eaten, and so on makes you who you are.
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