scgoodeats

[scgoodeats]

Welcome to SC Good Eats!

The idea to start a food blog was born as I sat in downtown Santa Cruz, eating a meal and feeling like it was the first real food I’d had in weeks. The joy which this Korean soup brought me filled my soul with delight and made me feel alive again. You see, the food from the dining hall included in my meal plan leaves a lot to be desired. I often feel that my meal from the dining hall lacks nutrition, flavor, and well, soul. It is soulless food. Soulful food makes the eater feel content, satisfied, and connected to their body. Soulless food does the opposite and reduces the process of eating to a chore. I have to endure said chore three times a day five days a week. And so on the weekend, I want to feed my soul. Thus, I have decided to log the food I eat in Santa Cruz that I do enjoy; that I do feel nourishes me and my spirit. 

Good food doesn’t need to be expensive. Some of the best food I can think of comes out of local kitchens and small, mom and pop restaurants. It doesn’t need to be fancy, or even beautiful (though presentation often improves the dining experience). It is exquisite in the company of friends and loved ones, but can also be an equally lovely experience when eaten alone. It’s made with real ingredients and real fire. It causes salivation and anticipation. It connects the eater to both their natural bodily needs and their intellect. Good cuisine connects the consumer to themselves, to society, to humanity.  

I decided to name this blog “SC Good Eats” after the Food Network show of the same name. I consider it to be some of the most formative media I consumed as a child, because it developed in me an appreciation of cooking and cuisine. However, this blog is definitely not about cooking, since I’m living in a dorm and the closest thing I have to a kitchen is a microwave and an electric kettle.