Why?

Not like the Nancy Kerrigan "Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?" but more like "Why on earth do we need another food blog, especially by someone who doesn't have any genius culinary skills.

A) I really like to eat--not a shock to anyone who's seen my expanding waistline, hears about my trips to Surfas in L.A. (which are now the equivalent to my joyful, early 80's excursions into Tower Records) or knows that I'm Jewish.

2) For the last few years, aided by the fad of celebrity chefdom, the explosion in the home cooking products category, and the umpteen different TV shows that have a regular home on my TIVO, I have become really interested in the world of food, constantly thinking that my destiny is to somehow make it a part of my professional career. Of course, my wife who is the modern day Alice to my Calvin Trillin, has said, "That's nice that you like all that stuff; that's called having a hobby." Yet, I can't help but think that if I just start doing SOMETHING, like this blog, it may someday lead to something good. At the very least, let's have some fun.

C) I have a blog based on my "real" career as a music marketing maven, Just B Major, but I seldom post because it's a job, and writing about it seems like a bus man's holiday. Maybe writing one fun blog will encourage me to write more on the pro side.

4) As my dear Mother, Evelyn, would say, "Oh, why not?"

So there it is and away we go.

--Savage