I am sure no-one is interested in my birthdate (28 December 1947), or my place of birth (Yorkshire, England), or my home (Brisbane, Australia), so I will leap straight into the relevant stuff. Relevant to a Food History website that is.
I have three real jobs, one planned job, two abiding interests, one enormous project and an uncertain and fluctuating number of “other” projects. Bear with me, and the relevance of these will be revealed.
My first real job (the one that pays) is as a health professional. The second is mother to two very grown up adult children who in theory have left home, and my final job is wife to one middle aged man who intends to have a mid-life crisis when he has finished having his adolescent one.
The first abiding interest is food, in all its aspects. Mostly over the years this has been the preparation and cooking thereof (see jobs 2 and 3 above), but I am also fascinated by the history of what we eat.
The second, but so far insufficiently indulged, interest is in travel. I have been to a lot of places in the world, but only in short, rushed trips sandwiched between jobs (jobs one and two that is, job number three tends to tag along).
My planned, future job is food history writing. At the moment it is a side-line, although I boast of some early success. When this reaches significant success levels, or when I retire from job number one, whichever comes first, I intend to make it my fourth job. My major topic at present is of course food history, but I am also interested in medicinal history, which amounts almost to the same thing if you go back far enough.
My dream is to combine interests one and two with existing job number three (he carries suitcases quite well and has superb photography skills) and my planned fourth job. The practical details of this fantastic future have yet to be worked out, but while I am awaiting this happy conjunction of circumstances, I transcribe old food texts, and collect food history information.
Did I say “collect”? I should tell you “About My Habit” …
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3 comments:
no matter how it all began...with the joy 'n energy 'n passion of your post...well, ma dear, the world is your oyster methinks.
I'm so glad to have discovered your blog..am sure over the whatevers I am going to discover much..via your "now what will I write of today?"s..hugs..Joan
I have just been introduced to your site. My instant impression of you (from your picture and a few words) is that you are very good looking for an old broad and a lot more slim that one usually encounters for someone so heavily involved with food. That twinkle in your eye suggests a mischievous seven year old and your approach to writing indicates a kick-ass woman in her prime. Your oldest teenager seems to be a lucky man. I am a teenager from 1943. Bud
Your site is marvelous; keep it up. I live in foodie country, Northern California, and it's the big reason I moved here, 'tho pricey to maintain oneself. MFK Fisher, food essayist etraordinaire, lived just up the road in Glen Ellen, and I'm sorry to say I missed meeting her. Visit when you can.
Katherine
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