tasty beginnings

It all starts here. My first post to a new blog, of a new year, of a new decade.

It ALSO started here. 45 years ago as a child. As long as I can remember I always liked to eat. From primal need to cultural touchstone to pure joy—food has played a profound role in who I have become as a person as well as where I have come from. Just look how happy I am eating my shave ice at the Honolulu Zoo with my mom, my sister (far left) and my cousin (far right) in 1967. It wasn't only the shave ice that made me smile from ear to ear but where I was and who I was with. Okay, maybe it was the sugary sweet "shtrawbarry" syrup over refreshingly, fine shaved ice that made me smile so wide. 


BUT isn't it true that food always tastes better when you share it with people? It's the common ingredient that adds "flavor" and "depth" to any meal no matter how fancy or how simple, expensive or cheap, decadent or healthy. IT is what makes food taste good and makes meals memorable.


Enjoy the blog and I would love to hear from you all.