Blog Entry One

May 24, 2009

I’ve wanted to start a blog for a very long time. In particular, I wanted to start a food blog because I love food and I love “food porn”. It is my obsession. And I’ve been entertained for far too long by other’s musings rather than sharing my own. As Addie Broyles would say: “I’ve been a hoverer rather than someone that engages.” Well. No more.  My inspiration to get to clickin’? The Julie/Julia Project. I saw a trailer in Indiana for this movie while sitting in a theatre with my mother on Mother’s Day. And I just couldn’t get it out of my head.

Fellow Food Bloggers I've been moochin off of. This is at David, the Soup Peddlers House in South Austin. Awesome Food Bloggers Potluck. I brought Chef Faith Chan's doughnut holes from Cissi's. Big hit. As all things Faith are.

Julie and I seem to have a lot of similarities:

• I too am in my late 20’s
• she likes learning from old foodies
• she’s from Austin
• hmmm…what else… perhaps we don’t have as many similarities as I had thought. But it will come to me with time.

I bought my Julie/Julia Project book on tape (CD) and I am ready to begin this project. I don’t know if I can be as eloquent in my writing as Julie because I really don’t think I have the time to be so verbose and robust with my prose, but my hope is to be as diligent as she was with keeping up with her cooking experiments and blog entries. Note the date of when I started writing this one entry: May 24^th. Note today’s date, (if you haven’t already) June 4^th folks.

So, back to the plan:

My plan is similar to hers but different in the fact that I am going to use recipes from different Austin chefs, rather than just one chef. Rather than following recipes from one book, I will be following recipes they’ve given during TV interviews, cooking segments, in print publications, and perhaps even from interviews Whitney and I conduct ourselves. Whitney is going to be my co-writer on this project.

This started off as an idea to promote Faith Chan and Cissi’s Market & Wine Bar (hence the former  name I was going to give it:  “The Faith Chan/Jette Faith Project” but, after giving it more thought , I concluded that it would be great to help promote Austin chefs and eateries in general. Spread the foodieful love. But, to remain transparent, I must say that many of the items I buy for cooking the delectable dishes from Austin chefs will be coming from Cissi’s. If I can’t find them at Cissi’s, then I will try to make certain that most of my products are local.

So here goes….

- Jetté