Kadishi Oliseh Why do you blog?
When I saw this prompt about why do you BLOG, I knew I had to share the reasons why I write about food, apart from the fact that food is a necessity for life and living. First, Let me share an inside secret, for me, food is love, growing up one of the ways I was shown love was through food and it became a part of me. In orders words, to show love share food, or use food as a means to express love . So I am simply showing you my readers my love for you through writing about food.
The beginning
The truth is I am a part foodie but I like majorly my food and my mum’s food, this required me to learn how to cook almost like her. I am a stickler for taste of food, so to recreate and experience food I had to learn. As a young child my mum would say I like eating consistently but in tiny bits but I struggled to eat outside. I could cry if food was not delicious or to my liking, I still do this at 29 years.
This love for food is based on my taste buds, how to food looks and my need to learn, this 3 things has played a role which led me to write food recipe and ingredients in a journal for my own leisure and to remember and practice.
Growing up in my house, everyone had a special food they could cook. I have 4 elder siblings. The first born specialty was spaghetti, the second born was majorly soups, pastries and baking, the third born was beans and the fourth which is my immediate made amazing noodles. As the last child I became the taster of all the food. All these put together made me love each of their food and want to cook it whenever I miss them and they are far away.
The Covid year experience and the creation of my blog and youtube
Covid year was me being fully at home with my parents after so many years of not being home due to school, work and stuff. I found myself no longer cooking for one but the whole house. I was majorly making breakfast and my mum or siblings made lunch and dinner.
During this , I realized I spent so much time in the morning making meals, I didn’t want the experience to waste and I also wanted to document some of the process of cooking expecially for those who were stuck at home and was struggling with cooking. This led to the creation of my food youtube channel NOKCUISINE
Telling a story and preserving memories
Do you know that with food one can tell a story? Do you know that food is tied to may of our memories?
If your answer is yes, then you get why I BLOG ABOUT FOOD.
For me I try to tell stories through my food and I also try to preserve memories and the different food that makes me happy. Sometines creating and cooking food gives me pleasure and then it also helps develop a story about humanity.
BLOG ABOUT FOOD FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LEARN
Lastly the reason why I BLOG ABOUT FOOD is for people who are interested in learning about food, who want to learn about cooking and wants to try out new recipes and procedure to make food.
In summary food is a commonality that binds us all together, and me having an opportunity to blog about it, is a dream come true . Thank you
