Hello, my name is Natalie.
I'm an omnivore with some vegetarian tendencies.
I love to pore over cookbooks, browse good food photography, and voraciously read food literature.
Food is an art.
I'm interested in the history and origins of foods, and I find food science fascinating.
Travel and exploration are a couple of my loves- I've been to Mexico (but never the beach), Guatemala, England, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Gabon, and Australia- several places multiple times. I'd go anywhere though!
I cook a little for work and a lot for pleasure.
Favorite cuisines include French, Italian, and California.
Though I have two other jobs in addition, in real life my education is as an occupational therapist (mostly with experience in orthopedics), and I think about working in private practice OT one of these days with children who have a variety of disabilities while using cooking as therapy for things such as tactile defensiveness and fine motor control.
I don't have formal culinary training. Anything I know is from trial-and-error, reading, experience, and what others have shared with me.
Looks like you're having fun! Wish I was there instead of studying for a test!
ReplyDeleteGreat photos. I wish you have a wonderful time there. California is so blessed with many things ...
ReplyDeleteLovely----good camera!
ReplyDeleteAmazing Pictures. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHi Natalie, hope you had a good trip back. Your pictures are so, so good. Great blog. Needed your camera for Red Velvet.
ReplyDeleteI know, I know.
ReplyDeleteWhen you need it you don't have it...
I seem to have the same problem with hats and sunburn issues.