We are what we eat. But, who am I?

"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." - Adelle Davis, 1904-1974

So, I may not be what I eat, but food is very much a part of who I am.

I've always been fascinated with food, watching my mum slaving over the oven, cooking meals for the family every day, baking and scoffing scrumptious cakes with her, and both grandmothers, from a very early age, memorising the basic cake recipe (which means I still bake in ounces most of the time... Oops!).

Every event or occasion throughout my childhood was centred around food: Christmas dinners, Easter eggs, mum's homemade treacle toffee and jacket potatoes cooked in the fire on Bonfire Night, birthday cakes, pavlova at dinner parties, finding sausages in my wardrobe after our Y2K Millenium bash...

It's no surprise really that I was enthralled by Miss Makowski's Food Tech classes at school, and then sixthform, and went on to study Human Nutrition at uni. I was amazed by the science behind food - the physical characteristics of different ingredients and how their molecules interact and change cleverly during cooking to make the food we love, and loathe, to eat every day and take for granted. And, food's affect on our bodies - how a small change in our diets can have a huge impact on our lives.

I've not been in the food industry since leaving uni, it's so hard to find that 'dream job' in today's economic climate. So, I have decided to take things into my own hands.

I intend for this blog to be a place to talk about food, what you love, and what you hate, tackle diet dilemmas and meddlesome myths, try out recipes, and make unhealthy foods, healthy! Please feel free to give me feedback, recipes to try, problems to fix, etc.

Join me on my voyage of self discovery, while I try to find my place in the world, and try to prove to YOU that you CAN have your cake and eat it.