Rule #1: Never Forget That I Have No Idea What The Hell I Am Talking About.

I must first and foremost thank my wife for suggesting this blog. Sitting around the table last night during evening snack -my most favorite meal BTW- discussing the evening's adventure after the dogs got into the chicken coop, my dearest wife suggests I should start a blog to share these kinds of stories so others may laugh at me as well as she. I recall a similar thought as I stared down into my trash can at five gallons of rotting pickles an a dead chicken, "I may not be any good at these types of things but it sure is entertaining."

For anyone curious "Eat or Die" is the motto of Jim Harrison- poet, screenwriter and author of great titles like The Legends of the Fall and The Raw and The Cooked.

I plan to use the blog to share stories, recipes, adventures, challenges, triumphs and mishaps related to my pursuit of food. From raising chickens to brewing mead, they all make for interesting stories and I figure this is a good starting point for the cookbook I am writing. I hopefully will be posting weekly but time will tell on how often that will actually happen so stay tuned for more info...