Greetings peeps!
I’m guessing if you’re here you’ve stumbled across my blog, so firstly, let me start by saying thanks for stopping by! I hope you stick around and find something that inspires you, is useful, or at the very least makes you smile.
My name is Celia and I’m a 30 something bint living in Johannesburg, South Africa (I was going to write that tongue-in-cheek in an attempt to mock the bizarre fashion that movies seemed compelled to specify Paris, France or London, England, but then I found out that according to Wiki there is a Johannesburg, California too – who knew?).
Anywho the idea for this blog came to me one lonsesome Saturday night while I was pouring over recipe books, glass of pseudo-chardonnay in hand, having just got my beautiful 4 month old daughter to sleep while my man worked his fingers to the bone / went drinking at the “Baron on Main” (it’s a toss up). I know that sounds unbelievably tragic and it probably is. I know I certainly would have thought it was a year ago, but it’s weird what having a baby does to one – these days I’m actually kinda happy to be snuggled up on the couch with a glass of vino and my resident goddess (Ms Lawson to the uninitiated) for company… If nothing else I wake up feeling a shit load better the next day than I used to – the hangovers, I don’t miss!
At some point the wine or the goddess’ prose (which I think is fabulous by the way) must have gone to my head, and I thought, hey, let me start a blog, it’s not like I have anything else to do *har har*. So with about as much thought as a hippo gives to chugging a tadpole, I leapt onto the laptop and with the help of my trusty guru (jentymom) said blog was created before I had time to come to my senses. And now I’ve discovered that I kinda like it. And I hope you will too…
The idea of the blog is to celebrate the beauty, warmth, magic and love of food. Think “Like Water for Chocolate” (fabulous movie by the way, which you MUST see, if you haven’t already) or “Fried Green Tomatoes”. It’s about food as the capstone of life, cementing love and laughter, family and friends. It’s…
A dinner barely tasted in the breathless fever of a very first date…
A lunch, eaten till dusk, as the laughter of old friends hovers like fireflies around a long rustic table…
A child licking the last of the chocolate icing from her grandmother’s wooden spoon…
An oozing toasted sandwich gobbled at four o’clock in the morning that tastes like heaven after dancing all night …
It’s about food as the kindling of conversation, and the lifeblood of memories, those you have, those you wish you had and those you’ve yet to create. Because as Gael Greene said, “Great food is like sex. The more you have, the more you want!”
Happy eating & happy reading!
C
