Do you find you have to eat or snack while browsing food sites?
Over on The Great American Cooking Project Nora Leah quietly thought out loud, "I find it very difficult to look at food blogs or write my own w/o a snack on hand. I've often wondered if others have that problem??" I know I do, and I think it's an excellent question. Where are you on this issue? Are you eating right now?? Me, I'm finishing my breakfast as I write this ...
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11 Comments:
i don't find i have that problem with food sites but if i ever sat and watched a few hours of food tv i would need to eat by the end. even if i hated what they cooked i'd be starving.
lexophile at 7:56AM on 11/05/07
I'm not much of a snacker, actually, but when I was at University I would always read cookbooks whenever I ate meals by myself. I remember making myself elaborate lunches and eating them whilst reading MFK Fisher, Madhur Jaffrey cookbooks, Greens, The Herbfarm Cookbook, even Joy of Cooking (I was buying lots of cookbooks at the time). I still regard it as a wonderful luxury - eating great food while reading a cookbook is a great alternative to the other seminal cookbook-reading experience, when you put the book down in a fit of inspiration, walk hopefully to the fridge and find only a shrivilled up lemon, some tonic water, and some mystery sludge in a cloudy jar, and become instantly consumed by envy and self-pity.
caley at 8:45AM on 11/05/07
After witnessing someone spill a can of pop on their laptop and hearing it sizzle, I am firmly against eating or drinking while on the computer! Obviously, desktop users are a little safer, but I'm still a little paranoid of spillage...
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 10:44AM on 11/05/07
I remember riding the subway when I worked in NYC and realizing that if I read Bon Appetit or Gourmet while on the train, I'd be ravenous by the time I went to work.
Oddly enough, culinary surfing doesn't have the same affect.
chiff0nade at 11:59AM on 11/05/07
I also don't eat while surfing the foodienet or while writing for my blog. I do drink stupid amounts of coffee, though.
Ann Fisher at 12:08PM on 11/05/07
Like most others, I don't eat while food surfing, nor do I even get hungry. Hours of Food Network produce the same reaction. The only thing that will get me hungry is Gourmet magazine. And a very occasional show on Food Network (either Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, or something from Tyler's Ultimate).
charm city cupcake at 12:23PM on 11/05/07
I find the inverse is true, actually. If I'm browing food sites, or watching Food Network, I generally don't get hungry. I think I get too wrapped up in my imagination to think about eating.
ConschBTJ at 1:17PM on 11/05/07
Ditto to most everyone's comments. Not eating but lots of coffee while it is still fresh. One thing that I do engage in is cutting and pasting recipes. Over the last few months I've collected about three-hundred recipes in a cyber file folder for future use. I've actually only used a handful but the accumulated "wisdom" has altered the way I use my "tried and true".
czken at 5:22AM on 11/06/07
Oh lord! Why did you have to bring up snacking? (But thanks for starting the thread!) I just finished my morning oatmeal and now I'm thinking about a little something munchy (lagniappe, as they call it down in New Orleans).
I guess I'm alone here. The way it works for me is: after about 30 mins on food-related sights, I start to snack. And I never watch something like No Reservations or Food Network or Top Chef without cooking -- I get too antsy watching them having so much fun.
This is why I pay $80 a month for the gym!
noraleah at 8:46AM on 11/06/07
Mmm. Wait a minute. Browsing food sites while eating could be called multi-tasking, couldn't it?
I'm against multi-tasking. In a general sense and more particularly in anything that has to do with food since the time when I was seven years old with a big fat black crayon in one hand a banana in the other hand trying to do something else in the garage (whatever it was it's now been forgotten) then taking a bite of what I thought was the banana but which turned out to be the big fat black crayon. :(
Karen Resta at 10:46AM on 11/06/07
I generally try to avoid browsing while browsing, as it were, but often I find myself eating an apple or pear while working on the computer. Food sites make me want to get up and cook more than they make me want to get up and eat (thankfully!). :)
Christina at 11:34AM on 11/06/07