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Where food is our passion
Some people get excited about birding,
others about fishing. Some folks love to read books about history,
others about astronomy. And some people like the challenge of
crossword puzzles while others prefer Sudoku.
Us? Folks like you and me? We get excited about cooking; we love to
read cookbooks and recipes; and we like the challenge of cooking
something we’ve never made before.
We are – and we’ve been labeled with one of the lamest monikers
since yuppies – foodies.
We watch people cook on TV while others watch the weather. We pull
the food section out of the Sunday paper while others grab the
sports section. We like to take the wife shopping at the Rehoboth
Outlets so we can go to Peppers and Kitchen Essentials. And we get
excited about good food, good chefs and getting into the kitchen to
try something new.
I’ll never forget walking into our sales department and telling a
woman, whose husband is a clammer and also sells day-boat scallops,
what we thought of our first purchase from him. We had made steamers
and blackened scallops over the weekend and as I arrived on Monday
morning to the office, I told her in front of the sales team that
the clams and scallops were “beautiful.” After an avalanche of
sarcasm about calling shellfish beautiful, I returned to the
newsroom and reported the same information. Being that a much more
intelligent form of life exists in the newsroom, they appreciated my
passion. This is another reason why someone’s homemade linguini with
red clam sauce winds up in the newsroom and Wawa bagels with cream
cheese stagnate in sales, but I digress.
So where am I headed with this? Online.
Go to
www.shorenewstoday.com/columns and click on Cape Cuisine. You
can review previously written Cape Cuisine columns but now you’ll be
also able to participate in our – sorry – foodie experience. I’ll be
posting blogs along with my Atlantic County colleague and former
staff writer, Carl Price, and if you’re game, we’ll exchange
recipes, local restaurant experiences and advice on products that
you found – try Soy Vey Very Very Teriyaki on broiled salmon; it’s
awesome and the only way I can get myself and the kids to eat this
heart-healthy fish – that others might want to try.
I’ve got a friend who keeps pushing me to use wasabi, but I haven’t
taken the plunge because I’m not sure what to do with it. Ask
questions, we’ll open it up to the readership but I’ll also call
local chefs for advice. Make recommendations, suggest new dishes at
your favorite restaurants, and share your thoughts with other – uh –
foodies, maybe we can even come up with a more palatable nickname
for ourselves.
How about kitchen gadgets. They take up half my annual Christmas
wish list. Ronco Rotisserie? We’ve had one for almost a decade.
Wouldn’t cook and chicken, game hen or turkey any other way. Deep
fryer? Got it. Make my own kick-butt wings and tails. Mandolin,
lunchmeat slicer, smoker? Got it, got it, got it. Love it, love it,
love it.
As we continue to evolve the site, we’ll add a full A-Z listing of
restaurants in Cape May County, but we’ll also talk about some of
the exciting things happening in Atlantic City with The Quarter and
The Pier at Caesars as celebrity chefs and entrepreneurs open
innovative options to dining.
It’s food. Let’s have some fun with it. Contact me at
seitz{at}catamaranmedia.com to make suggestions, and let’s see
where we can take this.
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