August 11, 2010 – 2:20 am | by admin

[ Photograph: Gluten Free Girl ] It’s amazing how many of my meals start on Twitter. Ask a simple question about food—”What are you cooking tonight?”—then sit back and prepare yourself to read a flood of answers. After hearing about heirloom tomatoes, roasted peppers, and ahi tuna, I’m hungry. Usually, that night’s dinner is inspired by a mish-mash of other people’s answers, a little of this, a little of that. Sometimes, like the day that someone spoke with happy nostalgia about her childhood macaroni and cheese, I went right out and bought cheddar and gluten-free elbow pasta to make it happen for us too. Mostly, though, it’s a mood that inspires me: charred this, seared that, a dab, a swirl. Or, just a ripe peach, juice squirting underneath my teeth to halfway across the table. Other days, I’m inspired by people’s photographs of food. Pickled watermlon rinds from the Alinea cookbook . Cherry pie with the juice oozing from the golden-brown crust. A slab of homemade bacon smoking in someone’s backyard. One look at someone else’s slow joy become food gets me in the kitchen again. Rarely, however, does a food…
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