About

Why?

I like food. I like eating it, I like talking about it, and I like making food, and I like building things, so here’s a full website about food.

Deciding what to cook is the hardest part of making dinner, so I use this website as a source of inspiration and to collect meals that we enjoyed or turned out nice.

And finally, I often try recipes or make variations and I need a place to record these, so I’ll turn this into my public recipe collection and culinary notebook.

Why not Instagram?

Instagram is not the right format for this. It’s too… fleeting, unorganized, driven too much by vanity. What I want to build is a compendium of things I made, possibly with notes and maybe a list of culinary resources that I find useful. I miss the “old” internet, where people had interesting, fun blogs where you could just read interesting thoughts. And webrings, where you could go from one site about a specific topic to another one. When you found a good blog post and it was part of a ring, it felt like you hit a goldmine. I like this format and I’d like to build something like this again. This blog is the first step.

How?

I built this blog using Hugo, a fast static site generator, using trusty Vim as an editor. If you’re interested you can look at the sources of this blog on Github. The statically generated files are then uploaded to a Google Cloud storage bucket.

There’s no tracking. There’s no cookies. There’s no ads.