A Delicious Beginning.

To cook:
A Verb simply meaning : To prepare food.
Synonomous with but not limited too: bake...barbecue, blanch, boil....to Braise.

To broil, to brown, to ultimately burn ...

To decoct ( extract flavor through the act of boiling), to deep fry...


To devil, doctor, escallop, fix, fricassee, fry, griddle, grill, heat, imbue, melt, mull, nuke, panfry, parboil, parch, percolate, poach, pressure-cook, reduce, roast, ruin, sauté, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, simmer, sizzle, spoil, steam, steep, stew, toast, warm up.

In it's most simplistically pure form, we all land on either side of life's perpetual balance involving food... We are either Ying or Yang... Hot or cold... In essence, what I mean to say is that we either like to cook or we like to eat and there are those of us who are born to explore our own odyssey that is limbo; that effervescent grey area where there are people not unlike ourselves who love cooking just about as much as they enjoy feverently consuming that which they have labored.

We cook as a social outlet, as a form of therapy and even as a form of potentially sexual foreplay. People cook to consume nutrients, to experience exotic flavors without setting foot in another county.. We cook to consume our feelings. Taking a peak at the world of the culinary arts from a molecular point of view, we eat in order to take in and utilize the nutrients necessary for survival. Unlike plants, we are incapable of synthesizing our own minerals from sunlight. Consequently, we as a race have come very far in the preparation of our own sustenance which brings me to the timely conclusion of this lengthy ode to cooking. No other word could better fit and fully embody what I do and love.

To Cook.

When I chose to start a blog about all of the amazing adventures I have had, will have and am currently experiencing, I was shocked at how the only tidbit I was threatened by was what in the hell I was going to name my blog.... So a title embodying the three topics that have consumed almost every part of my life seemed vastly appropriate: A Veluptuous Vegan Cook.

I'm a six foot nothing, veluptuous, amazonian vegan with a passion for cooking that would set Paula Dean's butter aflame.

Welcome to a beautiful thing.

Xoxo

V.V.