Happy Canada Day!

....and as that's the only Canadian thing happening to me right now, I'll move on.

Can I just say that as my cooking life is entirely taken up with what to feed baby these days I have nothing to say about food at all and seem to have even lost my appetite for the stuff, to the extent that I've lost at least ten lbs and two dress sizes... It's a strange thing, but I seem to have gone off eating altogether. Has that happened to any other new parents besides me?

My mother, who is visiting me right now, says the same thing and it makes sense: she's been running her own restaurant for twenty years and I've been reading, researching, writing and thinking about food for at least that long. So all of a sudden I don't really attack it with the same gusto I used to. I've lost my curiosity for new tastes! We even went for sushi last week and I just thought: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............ Boring.

On the other hand, I haven't lost my taste for food-as-process and project, especially for canning, and I've been planning to put up some preserved lemons and harissa for weeks now. Maybe once I get this latest writing deadline met, for next Monday.

Above is a picture of me at my favorite writing spot, filling up with my favorite fuel, diet coke. Get this KF and DR, my fellow DC-junkies: I don't even really like diet coke anymore!