Well here we go.....

Hey there all! Well, finally after telling myself repeatedly that I would do this here I am!

First a little about me.

I was a boarding school brat since the age of 12, and earned a BA in Psychology and Writing. After college, I was a Guidance Counsellor for The Bahamian Government School System and completely unhappy! So one day I decided to change that. I asked myself what was the one thing that I loved to do, both for myself and to share with others, that I thought I could make a career out of? The answer was simple ....cooking! So I applied to Culinary School in the best place I could think of, a city full of food and culture! A city I always loved and had been dying for an excuse to live and eat in... New York City! And upon my acceptance, I packed up my bags and readied myself to take a bite out of The Big Apple!

I've been living in New York for about 8 months now and recently finished Culinary School with a Diploma in both Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management. It was single-handedly the best experience of my life to date! The people and the chefs were all so passionate and talented it cemented for me that I had made the right choice. How and why did I get to this place after such a traditional (and very expensive) education? ...I LOVE food!! But not just your standard fair, in fact the stranger the better! I look at people like Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern and wish that I could do what they do! They literally have my Dream Job!!! Traveling around the world eating local dishes and submerging themselves into the culinary culture of that location.....I'd die!

Food has a way of bringing people together! We eat in celebration and we eat in mourning. We all have stories about a meal that our mother, grandmother or even great grandmother used to make for us that the entire family loved! Coming home from college to that special meal, or around the Holidays with that traditional spread! Almost every memory that I have in some way revolves around food!

What interests me is how other cultures view food! What they eat, how they prepare it, what it means to them. Food is so personal and yet so social. I love the way people can come together at a table and between food and drink lose themselves in the moment and shake free all of the worries of that day! Oh and did I mention I love to cocktail too! I think that Tony B and I are actually long lost soul mates!

So this blog serves as my outlet to share my love and passion for food with the masses! Dining out in various locations, price brackets, food genres and visiting pubs, bars and local watering holes that titillate my various foodie senses. So journey with me through the ambiance and flavor profiles of some of my favorite places to eat as well as some new places to be discovered! Ready... Set... EAT!