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About: Ana Hallstrom

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I'm me, Ana and it's nice to meet you if you've explored my blog this much and found my profile. I used to be in the closet with my food obsession and need for delicious & sometimes sickeningly precious food creativity. But no more, I thought I'd written a quaint profile already --but it is mysteriously gone. It was a long, raisond'etre about my blog hobby of writing about food. But the crux? The impetus? Was that my former colleague is a fantastic cook, with a great blog called BUSY NOTHINGS...and he inspired me to at least, catalog my recipes & reviews and if there is any accusation of unoriginality or mimicry it has been of him, since I came up with the name F-MFoodfreak to honor my freaky obsession, my new home, and its bountiful agriculture and organics this winter (2009). I've since learned there are other food freaks like myself, same free background, almost the same domain name. That's coolio, I think it's wonderful, in fact! We inadvertently have started a brand! Even more cool. I'm a Spanish American with healthy amoebic crushes on Alice Waters, Nigella Lawson, Jose Andres, Gordon Ramsay, David Chang and Eric Ripert--all for different reasons. Could go on, but their ain't enough room for all the professional chefs I admire. I derive inspiration from them and a few others. Tony, my colleague who provided the grass roots blog inspiration? Recently got an e-mail from none other than Alton Brown, his hero! I would do no less than an f-m food freak dance if one of my heroes contacted me. (My husband has been complaining about the full size cardboard cut-out of Gordon that Cashwise Liquor gave me from their wine display). I told him, "Can't get rid of it until Gordon writes a comment on my blog". Since the chances of that happening are nil, I get to keep it. It's an unfair bargain but for now, has bought time til he brings it up some other morning. I spent summers in Spain - I can't tell you how many people have asked me if I know how to make enchiladas-when they learn that my Mother is a Spaniard. (And I do, but I learned how to make them from my Mexican friends when I lived in San Diego..) Spanish food is more like French or Italian food. It's fresh and usually composed of courses with a recurring theme of tomatoes., onion and evoo throughout. Having lived in LA and San Diego for all of my adult life I have been exposed to authentic Chinese in Monterey Park, to Korean in Koreatown, to Thai, and Indian. I spent waaay lots of time with the help- to my grandmother's great chagrin. My fave thing was watching the cooks and maids of My Aunts and Great Aunts households hand-make: croquettes and mayonesa and meringues and gazpacho to name a few...all done without appliances and machines. To my grandmother's great chagrin I spent maybe too time with the help...! One cook, my dear great Aunt Lola, felt bad for us American kids missing our peanut butter sandwiches and made peanut butter in a mortar and pestle from my Aunt Lola's finca peanuts, one day! I was raised in California most of the time but the European manner of cooking is a heavy influence. Circumstances have brought me to the upper midwest in the last decade. And my goal for this blog is to show geographical snobs that the food accessibility & variety here can be every bit as erudite as LA's, Minneappolis'..New York's, Madrid's, London's etc. Darn tootin, Fargo-Moorhead: Where the living is easy and the food is fantastic. I hope you will stop by again for a review or to try a recipe and care to comment on the content or make suggestions. I am a fledgling writer and welcome all. Thanks for stopping by, Ana

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