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It was when I was seven years old that I first realised how much I love cooking. Mum would always have dinner planned everynight but I was around this time I
Hello and welcome to Tattoo on Food. I am Tattoo and this is my blog about a life gourmand.
Looking up gourmand in Wikipedia, it tells me the expression was used in the past not to describe someone simply as passionate about food and wine, but rather someone more so obsessed with gluttony. "A person given to the excess in the consumption of food and wine" to use their words exactly. Strangely I don't mind falling under either definition.
The real love of food is a passion, and for those like me, an obsession. Call it gluttony if you must, but finding room for the 11th course of a degustation is not gluttony, rather the accommodating nature of love. Who would ever want to feel guilt as a result of the culinary Nirvana obtained from eating wonderful foods like sweet, silken, rich foie gras,, rinsed with the perfect acidity of an incredibly long and mouth filling Sauternes. Even the pleasure of an M&M peanut or a cheeseburger!
If a life gourmand can be gluttonous in consumption then by the same token it can also be gluttonous in production. Is it not true the great chefs and wine makers of the world have given themselves in excess to their obsession? An obsession we thank them dearly for.
Tattoo On Food (T.O.F) is about discussing the love of food. I will write recipes for dishes I have made, I will review restaurants I have visited and I extend an invitation for you all to do the same. T.O.F will also review wines, offer culinary advice or simply discuss anything relating to the gastronomic world. I will also be inviting my gourmet friends for interviews, to give recipes or just talk about anything food or wine.
My background is as a chef and waiter but do not hold that against me. My love of food is as a personal consumer not a professional producer. There is, however, no better feeling received from giving, than the feeling received when the gifts are from your own hands.
As I live in the South West of Victoria, T.O.F will have a focus on the restaurants and produce of this area, yet T.O.F is not exclusively about this region and I invite the world to join me.
Welcome to Tattoo on Food and I look forward to your next visit,
