About the blog and us
Andrew Brown
My name is Andrew and I’ve been blogging about local politics and civic activism where I live – over at Someday I Will Treat You Good and earlier at Cllr Andrew Brown – since 2004. I’d been trying to mix in the food blogging along with the other things I’m interested in but it seems like a good time to try and do them separately.
Until recently I’ve been a competent but uninspired cook, seeing food as a pleasant necessity rather than a joy to produce as much to consume. I’ve decided to try and change that.
So I’m trying new things, trying to avoid falling back on staples and wanting to challenge myself and bring joy to the family and friends that get to eat what I cook.
This blog will try and document where I get to on that path.
Max Calò
My name is Max, I love cooking, I started as a child and until quite recently I used to be completely obsessive about it, I used to regularly make my own pasta, bread, vegetable stock… In the recent years I overcame my obsession but still maintain a very high threshold for what I consider edible.
My cooking roots are in Italy but I consider traditional recipies only a starting point, orthodoxy in the kitchen is a boring weakness, still, I’ll post my take on a few traditional dishes of the Italian staple as I think they should be cooked.
When I was a child I became fascinated with the intro chapters of a series of cookery books of my mother. Every book was on a different kind of food: meats, fish, soups… I wasn’t interested in the individual recipes, I liked the descriptions of the methods, how to seal the meat or marinade the fish, the general principles of cooking, that was what interested me, now I’m very good at improvising, an empty fridge can always give me something to cook a meal with. Not all of them are worth writing about but some will make it onto this blog.
I have a completely different culinary background than Andrew and I think that the juxtaposition of the two styles offers great potential for exploration for both of us as well as for any reader.
I have another blog at not really a diary and another at Max’s Stuff, I’ve been the mainstay behind the Save Ladywell Pool campaign that’s been my first blogging experience.
Good luck, and I hope the experiment leads you to stop worrying and learn to love the beet…
johninnit
August 15, 2007 at 7:24 am
Great stuff guys. Look forward to lots of new food ideas. Max you mentioned an empty fridge…. i was thinking could people challenge you and Andrew to make something with the contents of their empty fridges ?
kate
August 17, 2007 at 7:49 am
Hi Kate,
good idea, I have a few recipes for the rainy days that I’ll post soon but it would be fun to try and put together something from a set bag from somebody else’s empty fridge as a challenge. Of course the fridge must be “almost” empty or you’d have to eat the fridge itself.
Max
August 17, 2007 at 11:20 am
I’m not one to back out of a challenge so I’ll give it a go. But with some trepidation; it feels a bit Ready Steady Cook…
andrewkbrown
August 17, 2007 at 12:33 pm
well i like ready steady cook, or should say i used to. it has gone down hill a bit but in general i like cookery programmes
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