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Looking too closely at food

I'm continually amazed at the specialization of the world we're building.  One of my favorite, if obscure, magazines is "Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture".  It has academics looking at why we eat what we eat, and how we got here.  A little history, a little sociology and travel, a lot of looking at arugala and Indonesian kitchen knives and Jewish cuisine in Idaho.  This quarter's issue:

http://gastronomica.org/issues0604.html

Has a book review by Sandra Oliver, Food Historian, on her gripes and wishes for where food history is and where she would like to see it go.  I suspect the same kind of article could be written by a cop about the state of public protection, or a doctor on the state of medicine.  Is interesting, though, to see the workings of a mind so embedded in a specific field.

An academic journal out of UC Berkeley, the link is only going to get you a table of contents and an offer to buy the hardcopy.  Want something food related and a little more delicious?  Check out the website Ollie just got up for Fairfax County's renowned Amphora Bakery: http://amphorabakery.com/!

In praise of tryptophan

This blog was meant to be up and running on Thanksgiving Day.  And we intended to get it up by then, honestly.  However, somewhere between the prep of feast and partaking of same, I awake to find myself creating my first entry on Saturday morning. 

What caused the delay?  Was it trytophan from the turkey, or the bottles of wine that passed over our table?  Probably the high carb count combined with the alchohol:  http://www.howstuffworks.com/question519.htm

Short story, welcome to the Ollie blog.  You will find here our takes on design, marketing, and promotion; background on work we're doing for clients; and random musings as they pop into my brain.  I look forward to your checking us out.

Daniel Emberley