About

The Food Philomath is a blog set up with a single ethos in mind; to attempt and experience every culinary offering the world has. There are so many things to try and do that it seems foolish not to indulge. I found myself living vicariously through travel and cookery programs in an attempt to gain wisdom in the food diversity of all cultures. Initially I envied them; swanning through luscious ethnic gardens and grilling exotic sea life on an impossibly bleach-white beach whilst the local people celebrated bygone holidays. Why couldn't I have these amazing journeys and expeditions?

Then I realised something. How much of the world have I eaten on my doorstep? Have I tried all the flavours of cheese in my local supermarket? Have I ever tried an oyster? What is that restaurant down the road even like? The more I looked the more I saw a potential oasis of enlightenment in the everyday, the humdrum. Would the people of that neolithic beach envy the access I have to these delights as much as I desired theirs? I have the ability to try a myriad of things right here, right now, and I was squandering it.

No more. This blog is now my personal journal for every succulent morsel, every cheap bite and every syrupy slurp I care to indulge in. Food experiences aren't sequestered in high-end restaurants; they're in our lunches, our supermarkets, the chicken place round the corner and the bottle of purple stuff in the fridge. There's a wealth of information and wisdom just waiting to be discovered and when you find it in that disheveled off-license all you have to do is pop it in your mouth.

Actually, maybe that's bad advice...