Food Portfolio

I try and log all of the food I cook as there is something rewarding about the process of self-improvement over an extended period. Maybe it’s just me. Seeing a seven-second video saved in the depths of my iCloud storage, with ill quality audio, relieves memories of success and failures. If I was an art student this would be a taste of my portfolio, no pun intended. But I’m not an art student as a value a future and really have no artistic eminence. There are those that say food is no different than any other form of art medium. That’s wrong. It’s something one must continually practice for true retention but it’s not art. Over the last five years or so I’ve tried doing exactly that, practice. Now some periods of those past five years have been filled with more concrete focus than others. There have been moments of absence as well as the nature of lethargy taking over. Still, I’ve nonetheless persisted upon intuition, not knowing why I value something to the greatest extent in which my career is not centered upon.

A compilation video seemed something beguiling for the 20 or so regular readers. At second thought I don’t care to take the time to learn video editing software. My video editing software ability is limited, take a look at how “I’m Not Bobby Flay” (YouTube it) came out. The next best alternative, I’ve concluded, would be a chronologically ordered series of photos and mini clips, accompanied by several recipes I feel the need to put forth. I resent to an extent recipe infatuation as preoccupation with a written text disavows the emotional aspects of cookery. Salt and pepper measurements should cease all forms of existence. The senses are something we should hang-up about not measurements and indentations into continual precision. But there is still value for documentation as one can use it as a reference point for further experimentational zeal.

This is just the brink of what I have stored but felt the need to publish 20 or so videos. The recipes will have to wait until I'm back home in the comforts of the kitchen. Enjoy-