Welcome to the new Active You Food and Drink blog!
Here in the office we are all very excited about bringing you new content and hearing your opinions on the subject of the week.
I will try to keep it interesting: recipes, cooking challenges, an insight into the worlds of healthy and not-so-healthy eating, cooking shows, cooking books, restaurant reviews, etc, etc.
Over the years I have developed a visceral passion for all that’s food and drink related and I do hope you will enjoy it too!
So as it happens I saw a few days ago an article about Mark Menjivar’s latest work “You are what you eat”which definitely inspired my first post for Active You.
He spent three years travelling around the United States, asking complete strangers to let him photograph the contents of their refrigerators.
His findings about others and his own eating habits were interesting: a collection of (empty?)take away containers, an impressive display of all green vegetables available at the supermarket and, my personal favourite, a frozen snake cozily tucked in with a pack of tortilla wraps.
Fascinating.
What better way is there to get to know someone than by taking a quick glance at what they keep in their fridge?
I do believe an open fridge is the perfect staging ground for a discussion and if the aphorism is to be considered true—if we really are what we eat—then refrigerators are like windows into our souls.
A great opportunity for this first week on the food blog!
My cooking and therefore my fridge reflect the fact that I have a cultural background that is extremely varied; daughter of an Italian father and a Latin American mother, with several years spent living in France, Panama, Italy and England under my belt I tend to stock on products that reflect my globetrotting tendencies.
Among my personal staples I can list lemon grass paste, umeboshi paste (no, me neither), mustard (3 types of), green and red pesto, black olives, capers, anchovies, 3 peppers, 2 tomatoes, light mayonnaise (because I do believe it tastes better than normal mayonnaise, not because of the “less caloric” debacle), margarine, a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, smoked chilies, broccoli, asparagus, half an onion, a salami, a wedge of cheese, a half-drank and now flat bottle of Lilt and red curry paste.
But what do you have in your fridge? And what has been your most daring experience with its contents?
Can anyone top the frozen snake?
I look forward to hearing your stories!
