I like to blog and have blogged about food before but never continued it for years and years, like most of the food blogs I've followed have. In the past two years and nine months, I've moved twice, once from Mumbai, India to Hartford, CT and from Hartford, CT to Sacramento, CA. This year, we moved in and set up things in a warmer city to immediately welcome two families, mine and my husband's who came and stayed with us this summer. With them, we explored Sacramento, San Francisco and even the cities we'd stayed in on the East Coast. Thanks to my husband, I could take my mom on a fun trip to three cities, Boston, Hartford and New York City.
It was a fun but hectic summer and I took them around this city, exploring the farmer's markets, a bit of history and culture in Old Sacramento, works of art in Crocker museum. On our journey, we sampled both local and international cuisines...large quantities of seafood, burgers, enchiladas, gyros, teriyaki at times accompanied by wines we'd procured from Napa and Sonoma. We rejoiced in the fact that even in Sacramento, there was something new to try at almost every corner: such a sea change from the near lack of options in downtown Hartford. The warm weather helped us explore the great outdoors, with friends we could escape to Lake Tahoe where the immense lake and dizzy mountain tops soothed our frazzled souls as the long summer wound down and fall commenced.
Why didn't I start my blog in the summer? I wasn't sure how long we'd end up staying, hence after I'd thought long and hard and knew finally that it didn't matter where I stayed as long as I had a record of some happy times out here, I wanted to jot them all down in this blog. So, I named it my downtown kitchen - whether I travel to other towns/cities or stay right here for a year or more, it wouldn't have to change and I can actually see myself continuing this one for longer than I have the others, so fingers crossed! There is a lot of stuff I'm exploring, whether food-related or work-related, and I want to write it all down whether anyone reads it or not. But I do love the prospect of people commenting on it and the reading list that always starts off my day better than any newspaper.
So, here goes...all the best to me and I hope I keep feeding this blog as much as I love feeding my family. Cheers!
It was a fun but hectic summer and I took them around this city, exploring the farmer's markets, a bit of history and culture in Old Sacramento, works of art in Crocker museum. On our journey, we sampled both local and international cuisines...large quantities of seafood, burgers, enchiladas, gyros, teriyaki at times accompanied by wines we'd procured from Napa and Sonoma. We rejoiced in the fact that even in Sacramento, there was something new to try at almost every corner: such a sea change from the near lack of options in downtown Hartford. The warm weather helped us explore the great outdoors, with friends we could escape to Lake Tahoe where the immense lake and dizzy mountain tops soothed our frazzled souls as the long summer wound down and fall commenced.
Why didn't I start my blog in the summer? I wasn't sure how long we'd end up staying, hence after I'd thought long and hard and knew finally that it didn't matter where I stayed as long as I had a record of some happy times out here, I wanted to jot them all down in this blog. So, I named it my downtown kitchen - whether I travel to other towns/cities or stay right here for a year or more, it wouldn't have to change and I can actually see myself continuing this one for longer than I have the others, so fingers crossed! There is a lot of stuff I'm exploring, whether food-related or work-related, and I want to write it all down whether anyone reads it or not. But I do love the prospect of people commenting on it and the reading list that always starts off my day better than any newspaper.
So, here goes...all the best to me and I hope I keep feeding this blog as much as I love feeding my family. Cheers!
I love your blog already! You write with vivid, often poetic, descriptions - such that I feel drawn into your words and experience!
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