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I feel like I'm prostituting myself here. Well, I'm done pimping edibles for a while, I tell you that!
I just want to say that while I’ve certainly enjoyed surveying your food all this time, in a way I have a greater respect for you after you made such a big life change. A lot of people don’t know this about me, but I used to be in your shoes.
(rare Julian S. pre-BITOG file photo)
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I put out and others post their food pictures only once in a blue moon.
You get plenty of compliments from everyone that I can see; imitation is not the only form of flattery you know. Maybe there are no foodie photo buddies for you on here or maybe people just like looking at your food for their own reasons instead of taking pictures (or making comments). There's really not much to objectively critique on your subjects from sight alone, everything is kind of an innately aesthetic judgment. Even tyrants and religious fundamentalists would agree on that. I, for one, would not sit everything on the same sauce as if I were making a stew of some sort, but the opinion of the one doing the eating is the opinion that counts. That is, unless you were truly “feeding” us in some way, in which case I apologize for not being more critical. Am I supposed to invite you over for an “e-dinner” or something? Sorry if you’ve been doing all the cooking, I’m new to these internet rules. At least I can’t season the food before I taste it or sneak “appetizers” out of the pantry before dinner this way right? Why don’t you invite some chatty analytical people over for dinner or something, perhaps they could give you better ideas than we can. (Any reason why not?)
The last lesson you learn in culinary school is that you are utterly alone in the world as your experience of it is, and only can be infinitely unique. All true chefs are raging existentialists at their core, remember? Maybe you just forgot or went to a community college or something. It is true that some people just wouldn’t know a good poppy roll cake if it came up and bit them in the #@$%! though, poor darlings.
It’s nice to be able to shoot the breeze with people who share your same exact values, but you’ll make more friends and probably have more fun in general if you’re better with analogies. Don’t assume that art can’t be appreciated by anyone but other artists. I have to try and mix and match my time with people who appreciate things in the “same” way I do with people who just appreciate the same things I do (albeit for different reasons) or else I wear myself out trying to accomplish everything. Don’t know where you’re at, but hope you can find some neat food photographers to hang out with if that’s what makes you happy. Bon Appétit sludge hammer.
