A Few Words About Relishments

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

I was born in Massachusetts, raised in New Jersey and lived in Maine ten years, though I went to college in Massachusetts.  In June 2009, I relocated back to Massachusetts, following my marriage to my wonderful husband who from here on in will be referred to as “My Man”.  As a result of my recent move, I’m an unemployed educator (with hopes of full time employment soon!) living in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.  I really never expected to find myself in Massachusetts, I really am a “Maine girl”  but sometimes life comes full circle, and here I am.

As far as food and Relishments is concerned, that’s another funny store.  I became fascinated with food at the end of 2008, a product of living at home with my parents for (at that point) a year an a half following college graduation, working at my former high school and having not much of a social life.  In short, I was addicted to Food Network.  I watched a lot of television and it was almost all about food.

It was in December of 2008 that a perfect storm of things occurred.

Some of the vegetarian students at the school where I was working  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 and I was eating a lot of junk food.  I began reading a lot of 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.  Plus 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 blogging.  So I started Relishments, with the notion that I’d just blog about random stuff that was interesting to me and see what happened.

6 days after starting Relishments, my sister, my Man 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 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: Next Food Network Star, Top Chef, Iron Chef America, Everyday Italian, 30 Minute Meals, No Reservations
4. Personalities: Giada De Laurentiis, Bobby Flay, Tom Colicchio, Rachael Ray, Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain

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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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