Food is an important part of life. We need to eat to live. It's a necessary part of survival for most living things. But humans have made eating into something of an affair. Somewhere between when we were hunter-gatherers and when we started obsessively Instagramming our meals before eating them, food surpassed its purpose as sustenance. These days, preparing or eating food is a ritual. It's a form of celebration, a way to show love. It's trendy and it's sometimes seen as a status symbol. Peopl…

Not everyone can be a renaissance man, woman, or person. In fact, it's straight-up unrealistic to think everyone in the world will have diverse set of interests and hobbies. For much of my sad little life, I've felt like a boring person. It's not because I'm feeling constant tedium, and, surprisingly, not because I have zero talents. The feeling of dullness I feel about my personality is due to the fact that all I really care about (besides my loved ones) is food. Cooking it. Eating it. Looking…

Growing up my foodie Dad had a huge section of his bookcase that was dedicated to cookbooks. I'd be able to rifle through books about indigenous Colombian cuisine, classic French cookbooks, and gorgeously photographed tomes of food from the Levant. I did notice, however, that he rarely, if ever, used these books. It turns out my parents needed that section not because my dad loves cookbooks, but because people love giving them to him. I wonder what would happen if they bothered to ask what he w…

Tacos are life.

Quite frankly, it seems like this woman had really low expectations for every frozen meal and was happy and surprised at the quality of each item. It looks like the top favorites were all the Indian dishes and the curries, where as the least favorites were the Asian dishes. These ranking videos are actually insanely helpful for your next trip to the grocery store and her reviews are thorough enough that it'll save you the trouble of trying some frozen disaster of a meal. If you like low-stress…

Cheez-Its are my kryptonite. I can make those slightly greasy, salty squares of cheesy goodness disappear in mere minutes. And when I say “those” I mean a whole damn box. Usually when this mindless yet voracious eating occurs, I am under the influence of plant medicine that was recently legalized in New York. And I usually come to regret it. When I'm not regretting ingesting a box's worth of these crackers, I am usually regretting ordering a crap ton of Taco Bell. Like, $20 worth of Taco Bell.…

There's one thing that unites most living creatures. It's definitely not religion, language, or genetic makeup. We're talking about food. While seeking sustenance is more of a need than a hobby, some people are able to mix the two. Humans have made it so this biological need can be made

Food is all a lot of us have. When every day is the same grey and joyless stretch of monotony , you have to appreciate the few aspects of it that we can control to the point of being enjoyable. Eating meals falls into that category. If I have to eat to live, and I have the option of really, really indulging, that's what I'm gonna do. While most of that involves cooking recipes I find on, say, Bon Appetit , sometimes that means spending my well-earned bucks on trying new restaurants. Sometimes I…