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Food Nerd Central

Food Nerd Central
Yeah, I’m still alive and eating well, might I say.

Guys, I am almost there. I am almost done with the dissertation that ate Adelaide (my working title, what do you think?) Cue Chariots of Fire Music. Da Da Dada Daaaaaaaaa Daaaaaaaaaaa I just want you to know that I recognize our relationship as food blogger and food blog reader has been compromised over the past few months. Sometimes, it has been downright ignored and damn it, that ain’t right. You deserve better than that. You deserve, at the very least, to be bribed with homemade brownies and cupcakes personally delivered by me and perhaps a kick line of koalas trained to do a pop and lock routine to Salt n Pepa’s famous song, Shoop, at least until you forget this whole mess occurred. Lucky for me, I’m a poor college student who can’t afford to do that, so you’ll have to settle for a sign that I am alive. Read the rest of this entry »

My International Goodbye to Australia

My International Goodbye to Australia
Oh Australia. You and your fried chicken snacks have captured my heart.

On my last day in Adelaide, I was sitting in a taxi on my way home from the Central Markets, taking in my last views of Victoria Square, King Williams street, and downtown Adelaide…and that is when I heard the Japanese love jam rocking on the radio and my enthusiastic Indian cab driver singing along. I say “love jam” because the words “love song” were simply not strong enough to describe this tune. These were clearly Japanese people in love and jamming like their lives depended on it. It was intense. It was a fricking love jam. Read the rest of this entry »

Leena eats the Great Ocean Road (grab a snack, it’s a long one!)

Leena eats the Great Ocean Road (grab a snack, its a long one!)

How I spent my summer vacation.

?I dropped my pills.? ?I can?t find my phone.? ?There is corn muffin in my belly button.? It was the first five minutes of our Great Ocean Road trip and I already sounded like a senior citizen. All I could do was hope someone packed the adult diapers, because I had also just drank 42 ounces of water. This was going to be one crazy trip. Woop woop. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m back!!!!!

Im back!!!!!
And I’m eating well! Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon.

Hello, fellow food friends. I have safely landed in Chicago and I am slowly but surely starting my life back up again. The past two months have been hands down the most STRESSFUL of my life (my Aussie nickname was Stressbunny, if that is any clue). Between finishing my 15,000 word dissertation, moving twice in a week, FIVE flights home over 48 hours, moving in with my parents (yup, married and living with my parents?l am officially the COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH. Bow to me now), finding a job (anyone want to hire an attractive, intelligent food writer with great research experience? Ruhlman, want to write a book with me?), and another apartment in the city, I barely had time to shower, let alone blog. Lucky for you, I showered this morning. And blogged a bit. Read the rest of this entry »

Class parties, or Leena’s Blog Squishie #1

I?ve been really behind in blogging, like stories from over a month ago sort of behind, and I have only the end of classes and dissertation preparation week to blame. Its been school, school, school, so after doing the occasional fun thing with the class, I had no time to actually write about it. Thus, the newly patented Leena?s blog squishie, in which all of these lovely events get squished into one blog for your reading enjoyment. Also named for the beverage sold by Apu on the Simpsons, pretty much the only role model Indians have on popular American television today. This one?s for you, Apu. Read the rest of this entry »

To one year of wedded bliss…

You can tell a lot about a person by how they eat their artichoke. Take this plate for example.

To one year of wedded bliss...

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My Degree/McLaren Vale Cheese and Wine Trail

My Degree/McLaren Vale Cheese and Wine Trail

My, I?ve been a bad blogger lately?this story is all the way from the beginning of July. But fear not–it is still entertaining and delicious. I?d bet my lemon pound cake on it. My latest class, gastronomic tourism, took us on another field trip to the McLaren Vale Wine and Cheese Trail. Read the rest of this entry »

Field Trip! Or why food + wine = the best school EVER.

Field Trip! Or why food + wine = the best school EVER.

The class I am in now is an elective called Gastronomic Tourism, which focuses on? gastronomic tourism. Yup. I?m getting my Masters degree so I can tell you things like THAT. Feel free to bow in awe now. Part of the class involves going on field trips that involve tourism, food and/or wine in some way. Score. Read the rest of this entry »

Nugget of the Week!

Like a good Aussie, Nugget killed this liter of Ribena by herself.

Nugget of the Week!

~LTG

This is how we Gastronomes Roll.

Sorry, this is from SO long ago, like the end of May, but again, I blame the final essay that made me it?s bitch. One of my teachers decided to hold another potluck dinner for my class and the other class (who are just finishing up their dissertations now) near the end of term. What happens when you get a crap ton of gastronomes together under one roof? Food comas from heaven, baby.

This is how we Gastronomes Roll.

Here I am with my buddy Andrew?clearly, we take this eating thing seriously. This is how we roll:

This is how we Gastronomes Roll.

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The man can cook!

The man can cook!

First off, let me just say sorrysorrysorrysorry for being a shitty blogger and not posting for while. I blame it all on a 3,000 word paper on the myth of national cuisine that whooped my tan ass to Chicago and back. But I?m back?large and in charge! I happen to have a kick ass partner. He understands that after a long day at work, I barely have time to do my homework, write essays, and write my blog, much less make dinner. But I do. Because I also kick ass. But he kicks ass too, and has been making dinner officially one night a week in an attempt to learn how to cook foods that are healthy for me and to give me a night or two off a week. He also is the best damn mise en place-r I have even met (that?s French for he cuts my veggies so I don?t have to!). Read the rest of this entry »

A little Nugget of love

A little Nugget of love

I would like to officially introduce everyone to my little bundle of joy and scratching, Nugget (as in Chicken Nuggets). She?s 9 weeks old, adorable, and frequently ends up strangling herself in our vertical blinds. Yup. We picked a bright one! Read the rest of this entry »

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