About

"I cook what I like." - April Bloomfield

I'm Daisy. Perhaps the most important thing you need to know about me is that for my most recent birthday my cake was a pork chop (to the left, to the left).

I graduated from my undergrad degree not too long ago, and after settling into this whole not-being-in-school situation, I feel it's time for a project. 

I hope to draw on all kinds of different culinary experiences I've had to share recipes and food thoughts here. I've been yelled at in a professional kitchen, taught dozens of cooking classes, coordinated demos in hundred-degree heat, worked in food PR and even tried my hand at food history, completing a dissertation on food culture and feminine identity last year. 

"I can't stand people who do not take food seriously." 

- Oscar Wilde

In a culture where food trends and fads are starting to get more air time than restaurant openings and solid recipes, I hope this blog will be a small reminder that food is, above all else, meant to make you happy. People seem increasingly afraid of their food, pretending, for example, that chia seeds can replace eggs. That coconut oil can replace butter. Surely all these ingredients can coexist peacefully, without anything needed to replace anything else. Why not celebrate all the ingredients, all the recipes and all the food people? 

This is not to say you should sit down to a brick of butter with a knife and fork, but to write certain ingredients off entirely because some unpublished study said this or a celebrity doesn't eat that just seems crazy to me.  

"If you're afraid of butter, use cream." - Julia Child

Let's not be afraid of our food. 

And gold star if you caught the Beyoncé reference.