You’ve Just Found The Best Food Blog Ever

…but not really, as you and I obviously know. This is just the first entry - so unless you judge websites by their cool random rotating header graphics and elegant use of white space, there’s really not much to go by here right now.

I have a hard time coming up with names for websites - all I knew was that I wanted to be at the helm of the best food blog ever, and, well…here we are, and now we’re going to live with it. At the very least, I haven’t had a revelatory moment at any time since registering the domain, and so domain name remorse has not yet visited itself upon me.

The way to think, then, about the Best Food Blog Ever is in the same ironic way that all Chinese restaurants call themselves #1 Golden Garden, or how car dealerships name themselves A-1 Motors. For some, this site really will be the best food blog ever no matter how pointless and awful it becomes, and for others it will never even approach readability despite my very best efforts. That’s just the way the internet rolls. There are some sites out there that are brilliantly crafted, consistently well-written, and intelligent, that somehow always fly under the radar, and there are others that I cannot for the life of me understand how they manage to maintain such high subscriber numbers.

My short term goal is to aim right for the middle.

So, here we are, at the dawn of yet another new blog. Those of you who have followed me here from Make Your Nut will already be familiar with my writing, and I thank you all for your loyal readership and welcome you to the new house. Those of you who have never read anything that I have written now, at this very point in time, have exactly three paragraphs from which to draw a first impression. You might as well click on the big orange RSS subscribe button now; you can always delete it later.

If you’re still here, that’s a good start. So, yes, welcome to the latest food blog. We live in Pennsylvania, so a fair amount of content - particularly restaurant talk, will be local. Great if you live here, good if you’re planning a visit, and considerably irrelevant if you are not part of Group A or Group B. Actually, since we don’t go out to eat all too often, I don’t envision alienating the lot of you with Philly talk all that much.

Also, and here’s a bit of personal philosophy here, I don’t believe in the word ‘gourmet’. I think it’s misleading and subjective, and in the end good food is good food. It doesn’t have to be expensive (but can be), or elaborate (but there’s nothing wrong with that), as long as a dish respects its ingredients and the person eating it. There’s as much beauty to be found in a wicked cheeseburger at a diner counter as there is in an upscale dish involving foie gras. Two sides, same coin.

Okay, here we go.