So the way this blog works is that I talk a lot about writing and cooking (and subsequently eating) and how they mash up in my life.
But that's a little skeletal.
My big plan is to recreate dishes I read about in books. I find that some of the best food writing I have come across is incidental, buried in a non-(culinary)-genre works of fiction--like the ham biscuit in Jack London's "To Build a Fire;" the meager meals cooked in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; the salted pork in Little House on the Prairie. The delicious dinner at the men's college that Virginia Woolf describes in A Room of One's Own. (Hell, for that matter, the not-as-great dinner from the women's college too.)
The problem is that these dishes are mentioned with such art and imagination, but the reader is left only to imagine them. So through misadventures, mistakes, and a little creativity, I'm going to recreate those meals and dishes I read about in books.
I don't flatter myself that I'll have people flock to my blog, but since I am sharing the link with my friends, maybe you'll help me out. If you find a great dish described in a book somewhere, let me know about it. My first big project will start in October, when I'll be reading The Cider House Rules and going apple-picking: something I consider a very "Virginia" thing to do, and something I've never done before. Beyond that, I have no plan except to read and cook. (My life is so hard.)
:)