Sometimes life is surprising and you end up where you didn’t expect to.  Relishments is a good example of that.

I became fascinated with food at the end of 2008, a product of living at home with my parents following my college graduation.  I was working at my former high school as assistant library and I didn’t  have much of a social life.  In short, I was addicted to Food Network.  I spent my afternoons and weekends watching a lot of television and almost all of it was about food.

In December of 2008, a perfect storm of  events occurred.

Some of the vegetarian students at the school where I worked brought it to my attention that meat production is one of the leading causes of global warming.  I began looking into it and simultaneously realized that my diet was pretty miserable; I was eating a lot of junk food.  I’d always been skinny and always purported the notion that I could eat whatever I wanted because I was young, healthy and believed that food should taste good, but I began reading food books and looking into flexitarianism and semitarianism.  I  realized that it might be as much fun to cook food myself as to watch other people do so on television.  On top of all that,  I was getting married in June of 2009, so being able to cook was going to come in handy (my fiance was subsisting on a steady diet of rice, vegetables and chicken–every day–and I wasn’t going to stand for it).

Then, in an unconnected move, I realized that I was bored out of my mind and missed the blogging I had done in college.  So I started Relishments, with the notion that I’d just blog about random stuff that was interesting to me and see what happened.

Just 6 days after starting Relishments, my sister, my fiance and I were watching Iron Chef America.   I had a sudden epiphany that I wanted to be “a food blogger” like Pim, one of the judges.  And so, Relishments was reborn as a food blog.  Of course, at that moment I had no idea that food blogging was hugely popular, that I had little idea what I was talking about and that there were tons of vegetarian-flexitarian-twentysomethings out there doing the same thing.  But by the time I realized that, it was too late.

In the year and a half since the inception of Relishments, I’ve taught myself to cook, expanded my knowledge about where my food comes from, enjoyed cooking and eating unique foods I never would’ve tried before, and shared it with a wonderful group of readers.   Some days I don’t recognize my own eating habits, but I hope you enjoy reading it was much as I enjoy writing it!

In Short:

1. Love: chocolate, pasta, Italian food, tea, cooking, trying new things, flexitarianism, cooking shows, cheese
2. Not so much: fast food, eating in a hurry, the same old thing repeatedly, bland food
3. Shows: Top Chef, Iron Chef America, Everyday Italian, 30 Minute Meals, No Reservations
4. Personalities: Giada De Laurentiis, Bobby Flay, Tom Colicchio, Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain

-Emily

Contact Emily @ Relishments

3 Responses to “About”

1. andrea says:

   January 12, 2009 at 4:30 pm

   my new diet plan is not to eat anything that just isn’t taste worthy of eating. As you get older your’re supposed to be more discriminating!

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2. Kirtia Arthur says:

   February 11, 2009 at 4:05 pm

   I watch food network because it’s entertaining and safe TV for me and my 11year old. Who ever thought Food TV would be such a hit!!

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3. natalie says:

   September 30, 2009 at 1:41 pm

   :) love your blog just came across it now sure how but next thing I know its on my screen! :) glad i found you!

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