Fav Foods and Me

When I get my hands on an album I really like, I have the unfortunate tendency to listen to it again and again until I get sick of it. It's a problem. I shouldn't, but it's so good, I simply don't have the willpower to hold back.

I do the same thing with food. When I discover a food I haven't really had much of before, but am suddenly really into, I'm pretty much powerless against it. It wasn't always this way (although I think I've always done that with albums). I wasn't exposed to a lot of different foods growing up (my dad doesn't like restaurants much) and I was fairly poor during college and in years afterward.

Then around 2007, I discovered New England Clam Chowder. Of course I'd had it before, I'd been to Boston and such. But they say that the taste buds, like the skin, change overall about every seven years. And somehow I wound up with a container of NECC from the Vons down the street. And it was a match.

I ate it and it ate it and ate it. I really shouldn't have eaten that much - chowder if full of cream, and cream is full of fat, and I have a condition where I convert most of the fat I take in to cholesterol, much more than your average human. But too bad. I wanted it.

The stuff from Ralphs was terrible (a little backward in general - Ralphs generally has higher quality products). It was a good day when I allowed myself clam chowder.

But one day the love affair was over. The package didn't show back up in my fridge. Sometimes I'll get it from restaurants, but we were pretty much done.

But that's okay, because around that time I discovered avocados. Same deal. I'd had them before. But now we were in love. There was a period of time where I used to bring an avocado into work everyday and split it with a very-willing-to-put-up-with-my-nonsense co-worker. There was nothing better than a fresh avocado with a bunch of salt, eaten at my desk with a plastic spoon.

And then things faded. Still like 'em ... but it's not the same.

There were other things ... saag. I'm kind of still in that love affair, although it's not as intense. Right now my thing is eggplants. The prob is that I've not yet mastered how to cook them myself. But I am capable of purchasing pre-made baba ganooj from the deli section at Ralphs.

There are also food items which I've always loved and have managed to met out slowly to myself. Inari. Burrata. Donuts. Things as such.

What will be next? What will my taste buds pick up on next? It's hard to say, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it.