tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10924432353342090692011-09-19T04:42:36.709-07:00Confessions of a Cookbook AddictTeam Adath Israelnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092443235334209069.post-80847632533858183082010-12-22T10:19:00.000-08:002010-12-22T10:26:32.903-08:00Where to begin...Let me introduce myself; My name is Tracy and I am 46, a wife and a mother to 2 very busy teenage boys. I am a cookbook addict. I hope to share with you, my readers, my passion for good food, the comfort of preparing food and the excitement of sharing a meal with family and friends.<br /><br />Food...we all love it, we all need it. But how we get to it is different for all of us. <br />I love to prepare food (aka. meals). It makes me happy. It relaxes me. It gives me pleasure to share. I recognize that many people don't share the same passion and interest. Cooking is a often considered a chore or something to be avoided. Surely you know the old "I know what I'm making for dinner tonight...reservations" cliche. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of nights that I say "we are just going out tonight"! But even on those nights, when I'm sitting enjoying my meal (hopefully but not always), I have in the back of my mind that I could have made something just as quickly as it took to drive to the restaurant, order and wait for our food and absolutely just as delicious. I love that food has been put front and center with so many new cooking shows. I am not a fan of the idiot box, but I will always pause in the living room when The Food Network has been turned on!<br /><br />So, my goal here is to help you find joy in cooking and eating (and yes...I will get to the Joy of Cooking cookbook). In finding that fun I hope that you will begin to connect more with the food that you eat as well as the manner in which you eat it. I believe that if we can not learn to savor our food - there is no hope in learning to slow down and savor our lives, something I think is desperately lacking in today's society. <br />Some facts: Each of us will consume an average of 750,000 meals in our life. This will take approximately 38,000 hours or almost 4 1/2 years. That will double (almost 9 years of our lives) if we add in preparing our meals. WOW...I would really rather enjoy these moments and not rush through them. Otherwise haven't I missed almost a decade of my life?<br /><br />That all said - why don't you tell me what your biggest obstacle to enjoying preparing and eating your meals is....we'll go from there!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1092443235334209069-8084763253385818308?l=somanycookbooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Team Adath Israelnoreply@blogger.com0