Food Fest Meet and Greet

[ysabetwordsmith]

Lots of folks want to see more activity on Dreamwidth. Thematic meet and greet events offer a good opportunity for that. So I made one for this month's Food Fest theme. It gives people a place to meet folks with similar interests, and to squee about the current theme.

Here is the basic outline. Fill in as much or as little of it as you wish, depending on your interests as they relate to the Food Fest.


Name: Whatever you wish to be known by.
Sex/Gender Identity: Share any descriptions you wish people to know about you, including pronouns.
Home Turf: Your country, state/province, ecoregion, or whatever else you wish to share.
Find Me At: Your other blogs, services, or venues.
My Favorite Restaurants: Local, chain, ethnic, whatever.
My Favorite Cuisines: To make, to eat out, or just to read about.
My Favorite Foods: Ingredients, dishes, recipes, etc.
Things I Can't or Won't Eat: Allergies, aversions, exasperations with the modern foodstream, etc.
Fun Food Quotes: Humorous sayings, advice or guidelines you like, etc.
Cookbooks I Recommend: Old or new, in any format.
Cooking or Food Shows I Recommend: Television, online, movies, etc.
Cooks I Admire: family legends, local or wider celebrities, authors, etc.
Online Food Resources I Recommend: Recipe archives, cookbook lists, places to buy exotic ingredients, etc.
Favorite Food Blogs or Communities: Anything on Dreamwidth, or other venues, relating to the above topics.
About My Blog: A general description of your blog metaphor, what your blog contains, common formats / media, activity level, typical rating level, featured fandom(s) or original work, etc.
What I Create: Anything you make that relates to the Food Fest theme or above topics; fandoms, formats, recurring motifs, and so forth. Do you write and share your own recipes, garden and post photos, link recipes that you described in your fiction, or what? Do you use recipes, measurements, and/or intuition?
What I'm Looking For: Things you would like to get from this activity; readers, comments, recommendations of fandoms or fanworks, new friends, cooking conversation pals, wider representation of something, etc.

<strong>Name:</strong> Whatever you wish to be known by.<br /><strong>Sex/Gender Identity:</strong> Share any descriptions you wish people to know about you, including pronouns.<br /><strong>Home Turf:</strong> Your country, state/province, ecoregion, or whatever else you wish to share.<br /><strong>Find Me At:</strong> Your other blogs, services, or venues.<br /><strong>My Favorite Restaurants:</strong> Local, chain, ethnic, whatever.<br /><strong>My Favorite Cuisines:</strong> To make, to eat out, or just to read about.<br /><strong>My Favorite Foods:</strong> Ingredients, dishes, recipes, etc.<br /><strong>Things I Can't or Won't Eat:</strong> Allergies, aversions, exasperations with the modern foodstream, etc.<br /><strong>Fun Food Quotes:</strong> Humorous sayings, advice or guidelines you like, etc.<br /><strong>Cookbooks I Recommend:</strong> Old or new, in any format.<br /><strong>Cooking or Food Shows I Recommend:</strong> Television, online, movies, etc.<br /><strong>Cooks I Admire:</strong> family legends, local or wider celebrities, authors, etc.<br /><strong>Online Food Resources I Recommend:</strong> Recipe archives, cookbook lists, places to buy exotic ingredients, etc.<br /><strong>Favorite Food Blogs or Communities:</strong> Anything on Dreamwidth, or other venues, relating to the above topics.<br /><strong>About My Blog:</strong> A general description of your blog metaphor, what your blog contains, common formats / media, activity level, typical rating level, featured fandom(s) or original work, etc.<br /><strong>What I Create:</strong> Anything you make that relates to the Food Fest theme or above topics; fandoms, formats, recurring motifs, and so forth. Do you write and share your own recipes, garden and post photos, link recipes that you described in your fiction, or what? Do you use recipes, measurements, and/or intuition?<br /><strong>What I'm Looking For:</strong> Things you would like to get from this activity; readers, comments, recommendations of fandoms or fanworks, new friends, cooking conversation pals, wider representation of something, etc.


Feel free to copy this Meet and Greet into your blog as well as filling it out here.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Name: Ysabet, Elizabeth Barrette
Sex/Gender Identity: This stuff kind of all goes together, metasexual, genderqueer, if you combine all the spectra I have enough to make a tesseract.

Find Me At:
https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/
https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/
http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/my-work.html
http://greenhaventradition.weebly.com/writing.html
(WARNING: Flypaper for eyeballs.)

My Favorite Restaurants: Core Life Eatery, Cracker Barrel, Five Guys, Meatheads, Naf Naf (which we call Snarf Snarf because that is what happens), Panda Express ("You did it again, didn't you? You meant to try something else, and you got the Orange Chicken."), Red Lobster.

My Favorite Cuisines: East Indian, Native American (assorted tribes), Chinese (we have a wok!), Middle Eastern, Italian, Greek, African (various countries but mostly northern or western), Soul Food, Hippie Food.

My Favorite Foods: Almost any fruit, but especially strawberries, mulberries, mangoes, goldenberries, mangosteen, dragonfruit, and jackfruit. I love the old corns, like Southern Gentleman white sweet corn or Hopi blue cornmeal anything. Carnival squash. Unusual honey types; basswood is very delicate, sage or buckwheat is good for cooking. Maple syrup. My latest favorite is Liber & Co Blood Orange Cordial. If you look in my 2022 Goals you can see a list of recipes that I have made this year.

Things I Can't or Won't Eat: I don't eat veal or cetacean for ethical reasons. I am allergic to enough artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, etc. that I generally try to minimize eating those categories. I avoid high-fructose corn syrup and frankenfoods as much as possible.

Fun Food Quotes:
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
"You can eat all the junk food you want, as long as you make it yourself."
"It looks so beautiful, you just know somebody's fingers have been all over it."
"Feeding people is a way to say I love you."

Cookbooks I Recommend:
Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook
The Search for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
The Vegetarian Epicure

See my my 2022 Goals post for a list of cookbooks I have read this year.

Cooking or Food Shows I Recommend:
The Great British Bake Off (competition show)
Is It Cake? (silliest game show ever)
Taco Chronicles (very sensual food pr0n)
The Hundred-Foot Journey (movie)
Ratatouille (movie)

Cooks I Admire:
Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet
Julia Child
My mother and grandmother taught me to cook, including how to transpose between manual and utensil measurements, intuitive and recipe cooking. <3

Online Food Resources I Recommend:
Cooking Light
Eating Well
Food.com
Nuts.com
Spicely

Favorite Food Blogs or Communities: recipecommunity and creative_cooks are both recipe posting communities on Dreamwidth.

About My Blog: I post almost every day, often several times a day. If you're looking for an active blog, this is a good bet; if you're easily overwhelmed, not so much. I post a lot about writing, some nature and current events, especially science news. I share my gardening and birdfeeding experiences, with photos in the warmer months. I'm an active supporter of crowdfunding and often link to other people's projects. See my Food and Recipe tags.

What I Create: I write primarily original work, and some fanfic for fun. I post a lot of poetry, some fiction and nonfiction. My most popular fanfic series is Love Is For Children (The Avengers). See my Serial Poetry page and How To articles. The first Tuesday of each month, I host a Poetry Fishbowl in blog; people give me prompts and I write poems based on whatever I get. Next up will be June 7 with a theme of "Unusual Art(istry)." I also participate in the crowdfunding Creative Jam mid-month. Next up will be June 18-19 on "Sanity and Insanity."

I frequently write about food in fiction and poetry, and those usually include links.

"Oak Guilds," "Caterpillar Park," "The Power of Food to Bring People Together"

"Who Can Create the Future," "Good Food Choices Are Good Investments," "Layering Flavors, Tastes, and Textures,"
"A Vibrant Symbol of the American Dream," "The People Who Give You Their Food," "The Melting Pot," and "What You Believe Is Great Work"

What I'm Looking For: I'm always interested in new friends and readers, or new things to read in favorite topics. I'd enjoy connecting with more folks who cook and post about food.