About
I’ve been a vegetarian my whole life. Which can be tough depending on where you are and what the local attitude is about being a veggie.
Fortunately here in Gainesville, Florida, we have a pretty active vegetarian and vegan community. So I have a few things to say about eating locally, and eating on my travels.
Mostly this blog is a place to maintain my recipes and share with friends. Because food is love. Cooking is cathartic. And you are what you eat.
With every iteration of my life, my food theory pivots. This is at least my seventh epoch of learning about food.
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The Pizza Struggle is Real
It’s a real thing. The battle over Gainesville’s best pizza. This is the third best way to start a fight at a civilized party (after politics and religion). Pizza preference is arbitrary. Every special little snowflake thinks their criteria and judgment is the most correct. So to be honest, this is just one special snowflake’s …
A Perfect Pie
Update: A Perfect Pie has left the NE side of town and taken up space in the Oaks Mall. We haven’t been for pizza since (because really, the mall?!), so we can’t tell if they’ve changed much. Boo for loosing one more NE business. The pizza snobbery in Gainesville is lovely and astounding. We have …
Ginger Brown Sugar Simple Syrup
You can go to a store and buy simple syrup. I won’t complain. You can even go buy some fancy stuff that’s more than just the basic model. But…. if you want to save a stupid amount of money and make something really tasty in less time than it takes to boil water, keep reading. …