In the beginning

What is it? I don’t know—but welcome!  I love it, and I love to write about it even if I don’t know what it is, I plan to visit often sharing my thoughts on food (culinary ramblings) and people (rambling on people--past and people present—that’s the anthropology part).  A quick search for the definition of anthropology reveals that it is the “study of humankind.” That’s what I’m going to be writing about here. Humankind when they are cooking and humankind when they are eating. Often it will be about this one member of humankind—me and her adventures with food.

            I’ve written about people and food. Several years ago, I did it formally with a newspaper column called “Stirring up memories” in the Bainbridge, Georgia Post-Searchlight. Check out www.trillap.com ; it’s ‘way, ‘way out of date (next resolution—do something about that!) but there’s a good sampling of the writing I’ve done about food, people and a little bit of local history and a dose of writing about myself with some food mixed in.

            There is no plan here. Only that I plan to see what happens. I’m in Houston now, a great place to write about food and people. I’ll visit restaurants, talk cooking (mine and others) and look at our wonderfully diverse population with a hungry eye. I’ve blogged about food at another location www.trillap.blogspot.com, and I’ll kick things off with some reposts of the food I’ve written about there.

  I’ll be posting! Meanwhile here’s a sampling of culinary anthropology.

Love to have one of these pies in
my pocket.

Food trucks, food trucks, all over Houston
all with mighty good eats!

Love it when Sylvia parks down the
street at the Menil Collection lot.

Fresh fruit is good for you. There's no fresher than these.

Cats gotta eat too.

My favoritest grocery. We'll do the Fiesta wars!

Good eating! Good friends!