Adephagia (the blog) is about travel, and the search for meaning. It is an experiment in the kitchen, it is a social criticism, all revolving around food. You see, we all eat food, and use it to nourish our lives, our relationships and our souls. When Thoreau talked of sucking the marrow of life, he was talking of that primal comfort, of eating. We live and love, but most of all, we eat, savoring life, and all the things that come with it. Social lubricant, or aphrodisiac, food is part of our lives, and our history. After all, If you think of history, and the voyages of exploration, and of the men that sailed for the east, Ultimately, it was not the joy of travel that excited them. They were looking for spices, for food, and willing to take risks to bring it back to a public who didn’t know of these things.
There are many blogs out there who talk of food as an exalted state, like it’s a god, the Dionysus of our time. I prefer to look at the things that revolve around it, recipes, travels, reviews, in seeing that food is life, not just in the form of nourishment of the body, but of the soul as well.
Adephagia is the Greek goddess of gluttony.
‘de gustibus non est disputandum’ generally translates from Latin to ‘taste cannot be measured’. Taken together, the title and description take on new meaning.