My Interest in Cooking
When I was a kid, my mother was always shooing me out of the kitchen, especially since I had no interest in learning to cook. She enjoyed cooking and she was good at it. As was my brother, so he was the one to assist mom. This worked out well for me, because I had many other interests at the time. As I got older however, I felt like I missed out on learning even the basics. I didn’t even know how to make rice or boil an egg. This was before the internet, so to find out how to make rice, I had to call someone! That was when my friend sent me my first appliance: a rice cooker!
As a teenager I still didn’t know how to cook. In my family I was known as the person who was “great at making reservations”. Since I really couldn’t cook anything, I was great at going out to eat.
One of our family vacations as a child, was to Amish Country. We went to a sausage factory, because my mother thought it would be interesting watching them stuff sausages. It was not. The tour included the ENTIRE process. The first step was watching them kill the cow. I freaked out and was traumatized that this was happening in front of me. I don’t remember anything else from that day. What I saw left such an impact on me!
I decided to become a vegetarian when I was 18 years old. I was working on a food truck that sold hot dogs and my boss gave me a book about vegetarianism. It discussed how the planet is being destroyed, and highlighted cruelty to animals. Between that book and working on the hot dog truck (the smell of hot dogs never leaves you) I was converted. To be honest, I was always a vegetable lover anyway. I used to swap my brother for his veggies and he took my meat. That was when we weren’t feeding it to the dog!
In college I was on the meal plan. As a vegetarian that meant I had very little to eat. Back in those days there was no vegetarian or vegan section in the cafeteria. I had to forage the cafeteria to find what was edible to eat. I had a lot of salads and steamed veggies. I also kept food in my room. I would heat it up in a hot pot. One day, I was heating up some water in my hot pot, and I forgot about it. The hot pot shorted out the whole dormitory. A great example of my fabulous cooking skills.
I became a vegan about five years ago. It transpired because my blood sugar test came back high. My doctor thought I was pre-diabetic and told me I needed to watch my food and sugar intake for the next 30 days and get another blood test. I freaked out and went on the internet (isn’t that what we all do when we get scary news?) and researched “best diet to lower blood sugar”. Up popped plant-free diabetic diet for 30 days. I immediately went on the diet and an amazing thing happened: not only did my blood sugar drop, my migraine decreased, and I felt much better. Turns out my blood sugar was probably high because It was an early test and I had a big dessert the night before, and nothing to do with my diet. However, the effects of being on the plant-free diabetic diet were so good, I stayed on it for six months. And have been vegan since!
My Interest in Photography
My love for photography started in college I really wanted to take photos so I went to the college paper to see if I could be a photographer. The paper had a small staff (it was a small college) and there was only the photo editor with no photographers, because they had all graduated. I walked in and told the editor I didn’t know how to develop film or do layout or really anything but I wanted to learn. He showed me how to develop film and how to layout a picture. Then he took me on a photo shoot and he allowed me to take the pictures. When the paper was published, his name was on the byline. I was furious I wasn’t given any of the credit. I complained, and he got fired. I became the photo editor! I had no idea what I was doing. But eventually I learned.
How I Got Here
For some time I have been contemplating a career change. I have been a consultant for many years and entered the marketplace when my services were considered niche. Now, especially since people have gone remote during the pandemic, I am no longer so niche. Since I have been housebound due to a medical condition, I found many ways to keep myself busy.
I began to take a vegan cooking course to learn more exciting and difficult techniques. It is a yearlong course through Veecoco. It teaches cooking from different regions, raw food, cheese making, and desserts. It has been exciting learning to cook such amazing and delicious food.
As a kid I always had a camera with me. At all family functions there are pictures of all the family members and hardly any of me because I was always the one taking the photos. I have boxes of photo albums of my childhood and ended up as the photo editor of my college newspaper.
I first started to take photos of the food from my cooking course to show my friends and family. They couldn’t believe the amazing dishes I made and commented how professional my pictures were. Then I branched out to Instagram and people started commenting on my photos. That was when I decided to share my love of cooking good food and photography, with anyone with similar interests, on social media.
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