Special thanks to Dale for providing the photos – especially for doing this on short notice. Dale is in Canada and I encourage readers to visit her eclectic blog A Delectable Life. Please tell her I sent you and feel free to comment on her images here. Dale’s photos are copyrighted by Dale Rogerson.
This walk is also answering Marsha’s Writer’s Quotes Wednesday Writing Challenge about Nutrition.
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I like walking on the beach. It’s good for the mind, body, and soul – and refreshing on my feet.
Looking across the water is a reminder that life lives below the surface. A large variety of fish, shrimp, clams, oysters, scallops, and more. Of course, the listed ones are commonly available food for us to eat. So I wonder, “What’s for dinner?”
Is this an ongoing question for you? We ask it, but also laugh about this seemingly eternal question. Although our time at the beach is away from the normal routine of home, “What’s for dinner?” ever looms in our midst. So, why not, I’ll think about food today.
All of us have a variety of likes and dislikes. Some of us are risk-takers when it comes to trying different foods, others have a limited menu of preferences. So food: What is it? Why do we need it? When it comes to food, what do living things have in common with each other?
Food – that basic need for all life forms. All the organisms of the sea and the beach need food for the same reasons as people – for nourishment – for the nutrients that either provide energy, act as a building block or assists in a process. Yes – that’s what carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals are all about.
Food – think of all the cookbooks available – let alone online resources of recipes – all forming a collective of bountiful offerings of culinary delights. Yet, most people limit themselves to a rotation of fewer than 20 recipes.
Food – Think of the times of our settlers when most ingredients were grown in their own gardens or by other locals. The farmer’s markets of today carry on the tradition of locally grown products, which also seems to carry greater importance outside North America.
I think of today’s large grocery stores – endless aisles of canned and packaged products that are complete with preservatives, fat, sodium, sugar, and more. Therefore, much of today’s cooking is an act of combining various boxes and cans into a final product.
On the other hand, the food industry today provides fresh fruits and vegetables from throughout the world – a luxury less available during my youth – oranges from South Africa – grapes from Chile – after all, bananas are not grown everywhere.
I think of a time when families ate an evening meal together – and even a more grand meal on Sunday afternoon – whereas today our lives are more on-the-run causing us to yield our food preferences to frozen and packaged products or a wide variety of fast-food establishments.
Today’s life offers many restaurants of a variety of styles and prices without a messy kitchen – well, at least not ours. I find it interesting how cuisines differ not only from country to country, but also from region to region within a country. The fried plate of everything and anything is more common in the USA South and the USA North. The dishes of northern Italy are different from those of the south.
For humanity, food is more something elementary to our existence. Food is a sign of everyday life and culture that identifies people. Food is one of life’s pleasures through the collective of scents, textures, flavors, and colors – something more than a necessity to keep us alive.
I think of the abundance of natural food in nature – the corn with its husk but without a label because corn is corn. Let us not forget that corn is a plant – a living thing that also needs food just like we do and for the same reasons. Green plants make their own food by photosynthesis because they can’t catch it or kill it. Animals hunt for food because (and unlike the green plants) they can’t make their own. Whether an organism catches food or makes its own, food’s end result is the same.
Light from the sun is the initial energy source driving photosynthesis, but there are also organisms living in the darkness of the deep sea that can make their own food without the presence of light – but they use the sulfur gases venting into the water from Earth’s core as the energy driving their food production process. Nature’s design is so grand.
Food is a deep subject and more complex than many realize. Everyone has an opinion about food – after all, look at the number of cookbooks, diet books, and diets available – let alone entire television networks dedicated to food.
Thinking about food makes me hungry. Besides, it’s lunchtime. But for now, I continue moving toward the condo because walking the beach is good for the mind, body, and soul – and refreshing on my feet.
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Cracking photos by Dale. I love cooking new recipes as well as trusty regulars.
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Fraggle,
Glad you enjoyed Dale’s tasty photos. I too enjoy trying new recipes. Even within a person’s preferred palate range, so many tasty options exist!
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Thank you, Fraggle! I love photography almost as much as I love cooking… Glad you enjoyed!
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Great photos of beautiful food……..there’s food for the tummy but also food for the soul and food for the mind…..it ALL matters and it ALL satisfies us in different ways. One thing they have in common is they leave us wanting MORE! Great post Frank.
Pam
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Pam,
Food for the soul and the mind. Definitely – and in a wide range of choices! When it comes to food, sometimes I wish I knew when to stop eating. Glad you enjoyed Dale’s photos.
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Thank you, Pam. A big-time joy for me!
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A fun post with great photos by Dale. Dale and I cook in the same way–what do we have in the refrigerator or pantry, and what can I do with it? 😀
I’m fascinated by food history and traditions within families/cultures.
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Merril,
Cheers to your creative cooking style. Just as you don’t know where the words are going to take you in a poem, food preparation is a similar endeavor. Food definitely has a lot of history – and its relationship with culture? Oh boy – very strong! Glad you enjoyed Dale’s wonderful pics.
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Yes, we do definitely have the same style of cooking!
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“Shit arein!” 😀
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Yay! A new Yiddish term to add to my vocabulary! I am definitely going to keep this one right next to schmutz and various other sch- words! 🙂
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I will share a story with you about the phrase sometime. 😀
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Please do!!
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Well thanks for making me hungry. Oh how I love food. Ha Those photos look delicious. Enjoyed this post and Dale certainly provided some great photos.
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Peggy,
You are welcome. Glad the combination of my words and Dale’s tasty photos were about to stimulate your hungry sensation. Now I’m curious – how did you satisfy this urge? 😉
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Some of my homemake raisin, banana, nut cake topped with ice cream. So good.
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Thank you, Peggy. So glad you liked!
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Food is a necessity for life, all life but it is also a soothing balm that brings us together and forces us apart. Taste, texture, aroma all of these are integral to the senses and part of the food experience. It is difficult living in a country that has such an abundance of riches of food to know that there are those that have a little or nothing. I watch cooking shows and I’m fascinated by other cultures and I am sad that there are those who scramble just to survive. This world has so much and it has such a difficult time sharing that wealth. That makes me sad.
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Pam,
Your comment captured much of what I was aiming for … so thank you for adding to it. I too watched many cooking shows, (but less so these days). Culinary creativity impresses me. Meanwhile, a definite sadness thinking about food inequity across the world.
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Wow Dale, amazing photos!
It’s lucky I’m reading this after eating dinner tonight or I’d be starving by now. 😉
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Joanne,
Absolutely agree … before eating is not a good time for this post. However, I hope it sparked some food dreams! … and I’ll join in with your cheers for Dale’s photos.
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Thank you, Joanne!
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Looks great.
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Tim,
Glad you enjoy Dale’s images.
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Dale does excellent photos of great looking food. She’s also good at mincing words and serving up some wonderful prose.
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I concur …. and I imagine she’ll stop by later.
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Thanks, Tim
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Excellent and informative post, Frank! Food is a necessity for survival and also taken for granted, unfortunately.
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Eugi,
Thanks … but just a personal reflection about food. 🙂
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Thanks for the topic thoughts and photos by Dale. Look at all that beautiful food our planet grew! Happy Earth Day!
I never liked the connotation of ‘diets’. Random thought: I’ve wondered if we shouldn’t change the name ‘food’ to ‘human fuel’ – would people have a better idea which grades of human fuel help their bodies run healthy – like we do for our vehicle engines? My motorcycle tank does not hold the same kind of fuel or as much as a semi-truck.
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Rose,
Thanks for the wonderful comment. Human Fuel instead of food? I like it because that’s what it is, well … plus a bit more. Nonetheless, your thought fits well with this walk. Oh … and true …. yes, this fits well with Earth Day – but unplanned. Cheers to an accidental serendipitous moment. Glad you enjoyed Dale’s pics and Happy Earth Day to you!
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Thank you, Rose.
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Fabulous food photos! And you are so right about food…it nourishes the soul as well as the body. Fun song!
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Laurie,
As a fellow music lover, you’ll love this tidbit. We were hosting a dinner group one evening. Although I can’t recall the theme, I went to Spotify and made a playlist of songs having a food in the title … such as Bananas Pancakes. My memory is thinking that Fruit was our theme – but I’m not sure. Meanwhile, happy you enjoyed Dale’s tasty photos and this walk down Culinary Lane.
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Thank you, Laurie!
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Well, yes, you’ve made me very hungry! That was the point of this post, right?
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Ally,
The post was specifically designed to make people hungry with special emphasis on those about to go to the grocery or approaching an eating time. Did it work on you?
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YES!
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Excellent …. and glad to know I met my goal.
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Unser Angebot an Lebensmitteln war noch nie so umfangreich wie heute. Während des ganzen Jahres haben Sie die Möglichkeit zu kaufen, wie wir uns fühlen. Die Qualität ist aber sehr unterschiedlich. Zum Beispiel kann man in den Wintermonaten wirklich nicht viel von Erdbeeren erwarten …
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Rudi,
First of all, I hope the translation tool got this right.
Our range of food has never been as extensive as it is today. Throughout the year you have the opportunity to buy how we feel. However, the quality is very different. For example, you really can’t expect much from strawberries in the winter months …
Great point about the extensiveness of food today. Between improved farming, transportation, and people moving around, many culinary treats are at our disposal. I agree – off-season fruits are only a substitute, but with lower expectations. Thanks for sharing.
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Ah, Frank…. fooood! What a delicious post, with your thoughts and Dale’s yummy photos! What a treat!
Yamas to both and a glass of wine: clink! 🍷
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Thank you, my friend!
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🧡🤗🧡 Dale, your photos are yummy! 😘
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Blushes….
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😘🤗😘
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Marina,
Glad you enjoyed this beach walk accompanying Dale’s photos. If memory serves me correctly, I don’t believe you like to eat or cook. However, it seems to be forcing you to drink wine! 😉 Yamas!
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What? No like to eat? I dunno know what to say…
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A ha ha… well, I do like to eat but not fussy about it. Simplicity is key (not always as easy as it sounds though being vegan)! 🤣🤣 As for cooking, eventhough I like it, by the time get home, I just have no energy left! You also might be surprised to hear, I rarely drink. Just on occasions… like this one! Clink! 😉
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Vegan… that explains it 😉
I know what you mean about by the time you get home. Having returned to a 8:30-5:00 job has hindered my creativity! Mind you, working from home, it’s a bit easier!
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I get back around 8:30, 9ish after I walk Hera (the highlight of my day!), it’s a sandwich for me and that’s already too much effort! 😂🤣😂🤣
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Like I did last night. Why bother? Both kids were out so, keep it simple!
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Us gals are easy. We can do with very little and be happy! 😉
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Truth!
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😉😘
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Most folks only rotate among 20 recipes?? That surprises me, Frank — not that I’m a big experimenter when it comes to food but that, with all the recipes available online, in cookbooks, on TV, and so on, somebody certainly is! Lovely photos, Dale — and how nice that your subjects aren’t concerned with touching up their makeup and hair, ha!
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Haha! They just sit there and let me do with them what I will 😉
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Debbie,
Twenty or so is enough for a rotation of several weeks. All those cookbooks that occupying shelves and boxes doing nothing more than occupying space while waiting for the special occasion. Remember bookstores? Think about all the cookbooks there! Internet access is amazing – so I wonder how many printed untouched recipes exist in a personal file – let alone the recipes we cut out from a publication. Meanwhile, I guarantee I won’t post a beach walk about makeup.
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I have a ridiculous amount of cookbooks on my shelves. Not to mention the printouts in a binder (I finally stopped doing that and put them into One Note!)
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To your benefit, you also use your creativity to make something new that may not ever be duplicated.
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I pride myself on completely repurposing leftovers! It’s become a challenge of mine 🙂
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Ah Frank,
Lovely to collaborate with you on this post. Food is the great gatherer or assembler. I truly pity the people who get no enjoyment out of food – and I know some! (They are never invited to my house.) They eat purely to survive and have no appreciation for flavours or textures, scents or tastes. I’ll never understand them.
I show my love for my people by cooking for them. We nurture with food and the company kept during the sharing of it. How can we be at war when we are breaking bread? Impossible, I say! Okay, okay… family dynamics aside… 😉
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Dale,
Not only is your passion for food and cooking evident, you also use it as an expression of love, thanks, appreciation, and more. I like your line – “Food is the great gatherer or assembler.” So true, and you use it that way. Cheers to your efforts and belief system … and thank you again for no only sharing your photos, but for doing so on short notice. 🙂
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So glad it shines through, Frank. It really is, isn’t it? Have a dinner party – doesn’t have to be fancy, but it can, as well – and gather your loved ones around. The best. For me, anyway. I’m very glad I did participate!
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Dale’s photos are amazing. I had a hard time concentrating on the text with all those beautiful food photos surrounding the words. Good job, Frank and Dale.
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Aww shucks. Thank you, Boss. You are so sweet.
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😁
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🙂
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John,
Dale gave me plenty of outstanding photos to consider – well – maybe I went a bit overboard. Glad you enjoyed this walk.
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She does food like no one else. Good choices.
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You sweet talker, you 🙂
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Hahaha.
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I appear to be lucky, Frank. I made it here shortly after dinner. I’m good, but Dale’s photos are making me think that maybe I should have had a second helping. Making me think about food usually has that effect. Nicely done.
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Thank you, Dan. Food is so good, isn’t it?
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It is.
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Dan,
Having dinner before this post was a good choice because this post contains subliminal messages. However, I get the impression who resisted the second-helping desire that Dale’s tasty pics inspired.
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I did go back for dessert 😏
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😀
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Great post Frank satisfying our hunger and for movement and nourishment. We still come together every night and late as it is enjoy a dinner together with the cleaning of pots and pans and a messy kitchen. This reminds me I’ve gotta get the plants in the ground! Great picutures Dale took!
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Thank you, Cindy!
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You are sooo welcome Dale!
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Cindy,
Glad you enjoyed Dale’s photos and my musings. Food is so much of life, that it was easy to think about. You made me laugh because whoever cooks here, the other cleans. Unfortunately for me, my wife generally leaves a more messy kitchen than I. BTW – Hope your plantings are going well. Cincinnati just received a blast of cold, which is why prevailing wisdom here is don’t plant until after Mother’s Day
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I sure did! I so agree. I hope your wife doesn’t burn something nightly like me or you’d have it worse. Ask my son who is the dishwasher these days… lol.
Oh hope you get to warm up soon and send some rain. I’m getting to that this weekend.. I’ll let you know. Smart for you to wait on the planting! 💖🌷
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A delightful reflection on food, Frank, perfectly partnered with Dale’s colorful and delicious-looking photos 🙂 All the best to both of you! ❤
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Thank you, Cheryl! So glad you enjoyed! All the best to you! 🙂
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Cheryl,
Glad you enjoyed this and Dale’s delicious-looking photos. Food is both a necessity and an expression of identity – and this was a fun topic to ponder as I walked – and then transpose into words.
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Enjoyed your ruminations on the delectations of food. And Dale’s yummy photos, too!
I do try to continually expand my repertoire, but I’ve saved many recipes and books full of them I’ve never tried. Maybe one year it will become a bigger priority. I do cook based on what’s in the fridge and soon to go bad!
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Eilene,
You made me laugh because I think about the number of recipes we have in a file that we cut from magazines and newspapers. But I am like you, willing to try different things – and yes – Dale’s photos are yummy!
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Thank you, Eileen. Sounds like how I cook! Unless, of course, I’m having some sort of feast 🙂
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I get that. I find cooking for two creates some limitations. Not every dish makes for great leftovers.
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True. I always try to make a bit more so that I have a base for a next meal. 😉
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Nature’s design is so grand…. Yess and so is your post including the appetising images from Dale.
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Rupali,
The line about the grandness of nature’s design is one of my favorites in this post – so your emphasizing it makes me smile. Thank you – and glad you enjoyed Dale’s wonderful images.
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Thank you, Rupali!
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Awesome photos. Kudos to Dale for having the eye for perfection. 👀🍃
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Thank you, Gail! I do love to cook and to take photos so… 🙂
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Kindred spirits! 🌟✨💫
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Yes!
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A tantalizing post, Frank!
Dale’s pics are fabulous. As a veggie, I’m always happy to see a focus on fresh fruits and vegetables.
Thunder! Did you make all of the prepared dishes? I know you can cook from your blog and Sorryless blog.
Frank, I believe I’ve mentioned this before, but the idea of “the food chain” freaks me out.
Still a lot of reflections to ruminate over on this beach walk.
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Thank you, my friend.
You know I did, Sorceress! I am not a veggie but I do prepare a lot of veggie meals, just because. (Something tells me when the boys move out, I will make even more as there will be no complaints 😉 )
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Resa,
Tantalizing is a good word for this post – and especially Dale’s images. I tried to deliver a broad perspective about food with hopes of helping others to make connections – but yes – I recall thoughts of the food chain make you uncomfortable. Please remember that I have a biology background. A toast to the good things you found in this walk. Clink.
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Hi Frank, I had plenty to eat today – all eating out, but your lovely post made me think about tomorrow and what we will eat. My refrigerator is full but the green veggies are lacking. I thought it was interesting that we limit ourselves to about 20 meals. That’s so true, and I may be a lot less than that for us. When COVID hit, Vince and I started experimenting with online recipes. We have expanded ourselves somewhat. Living with Cindy for a couple of months made a few changes. And not having our regular restaurants, made another change. Still, so limited! Great post, Frank. 🙂
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Marsha,
Glad this post served as a reflection point for yourself. That in itself makes me smile – let alone that you told me. When I first started watching Food Network, I watched with joy and anticipation – and when I watched something to seemed good to me, I printed that recipe with hopes of trying it – and many times I did. Truly a wonderful experience. I know we have cut out many recipes from magazines, so there are times we simply say let’s try something new. So I encourage you to continue exploring and experimenting. 🙂
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You bet. I turned an old lunch favorite as a kid into a seldom tried recipe today for ham salad, my brother’s favorite of my mom’s. Now my husband loves it. I never made it much in the past. So a nice change of pace.
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I love Dale’s food photos. But I have to say, to look at these in the morning when my intermittent fast means no food until midday is tantamount to self-flagellation 🙂
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Apologies, my friend 😉 I’m just the collaborator over here 😀
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I know. I close my eyes and read… I’m getting good at that
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A skill most useful at times, I imagine.
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Absolutely. Especially of late. Did I tell you I have have my op approved. Just gotta wait now
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No, you didn’t. Thanks for sharing the good news.
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True. Your op? Please explain because, no, you didn’t tell me.
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My right eye, trauma-induced cataract, rapid deterioration of sight. But I get a new lens on 19th May. Yay, to be able to see properly again!!!!
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May 19th can’t get here soon enough. Best wishes for a positive recovery. Thanks for sharing.
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Happy to share, always. 🙂
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Oh! Wonderful! So happy for you!
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Thank you. So soon now!!!!
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Woot!
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I’ve answered thus directly on the post. But I’m sure I have told you… ages ago
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You did. I was just thrown by the op! Sometimes our brains are on slow-mo 😉
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Mine frequently… 🙂
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🙂
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Crispina,
Oh boy – Bummer that you are seeing Dale’s wonderful photos at the wrong time of the day for you. However, at least her pics made you smile!
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Her pics always make me smile
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Beautiful photos, Dale! You made me hungry. I am currently trolling my recipes to decide on tonight’s dinner! Great reflection on food, Frank! A lovely way to start my weekend. Thank you, both!
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Thank you, Connie! Hope they inspired you for tonight 😉
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Connie,
Glad that Dale’s photos and my words motivated you to this about a recipe for dinner. That in itself made me smile. Thank you!
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I’m always thinking about what I’m going to cook for dinner while on my daily walks, and whether I need to head to the grocery store on the way back! I sometimes wonder about what food must have been like before the “discovery” of the Americas. So many of the foods we now take for granted originally derive from there, such as tomatoes, maize, potatoes, chillies, capsicum, various nuts and beans, etc
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Steve,
There is no question that not only did immigration affect the food that is grown in the Americas, so did the migration of people. Good thoughts, Steve!
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Food! Glorious food!
That’s all I know of the song. But what I DO know of food, is that to really understand what it’s all about, you need to have celebrated the stuff. It can’t be a menial task, or a chore, or a drive-thru dynamic . . nope. It has to be something you painted. You and your co-host did a fantastic job of highlighting that point.
You’se two should do more of this kind of thing. Just saying . . .
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I could not agree more re the appreciation of it. Glad you enjoyed the pics.
Who knows what lies ahead? 🙂
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More food!
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Marco,
Agree … food is much more than a drive-thru and a sequence of insert, chew, then swallow. Food in itself can make the event special. Dale’s photos are wonderful. She sent me many, and I went – what the heck – use them all – plus I gave me a chance to examine a different look.
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When it gets to that point, it’s time to put down the fork and analyze your diet. That’s my two cents on it anyways. It ain’t healthy to eat that way, bad things happen. I know it.
She’s got quite a gallery.
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I’m glad you think so…
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It’s why doing it for vanity’s sake doesn’t work. Health sake? Yeah . . it works.
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Absolutely
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I’m just saying that focusing on the taste will enhance the experience … just like tasting wine, beer, & bourbon to notice the nuances.
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I do it all the time. I agree.
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I have several chefs and true “foodies” in my family, and I’m always intrigued with how much more adventurous they are with food than I am. I eat well, but very simply, particularly by comparison. I am very well aware that it is a huge privilege that we can be so particular with our tastes. 🙂
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Debra,
I find it interesting meeting people who deal with foodies in their family. Here’s the most adventurous encounter I’ve seen. We took a friend and his wife to a Thai restaurant in my area. He didn’t look at the menu, then told the server, “Bring me something authentic. The server asked a few questions – and he received a meal he enjoyed.
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Colorful variety of foods photographed by Dale. Bravo for creating a feast for the eyes.
Food and I have a love hate relationship now. I used to cook up a storm for years. I had
big Sunday family dinners and delighted in creating something new everyday for my hubby and kids..
Every recipe I was taught as a child on latin cuisine, every Martha Stewart cook book I could purchase,
every tv show on foods and desserts, and of course a few libations to accompany my masterpieces.
I was a master at it. Then, food allergies started. I eat to sustain health. There’s no joy anymore. I have
to think about every morsel that enters my mouth. No fun … but, I do enjoy watching others have a great time consuming meals. Sorry … about the length of this comment.
Happy Eating …
Be Safe 😷 … Isadora 😎
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Hard to like this, my friend. How sad that food allergies have made their appearance in your life. I would be devastated, too.
Thank you re the photos!
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Isadora,
Oh my … to have something you love ripped away because of developing various allergies. However, your love for both food and cooking doesn’t surprise me, so cheers to you for sharing a bit of your passionate story.
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Fantastic post and essay! I loved the photos too and I’m looking forward to your next beach reflection (oh, how I miss those endless beach walks…)
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Back Roads,
Welcome first-time commenter to my personal sandy beach. Thanks for taking the time and interest to comment. There is so much to say about food – so at least I tried. In the future, I will have one on cooking – but one is still in draft form. Meanwhile, Dale provided delightful photos for this walk. (I frequently collaborate in order to use the photography of others. FYI: This is walk #67 – and yesterday I posted #73 …. so I invite you to read past walks. Is this Tony or Margie?
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Haha, this is Margie and I will most certainly take a look at your other posts! I love the idea of collaboration of words and photography and I’ll be happy to collaborate with you at one point.
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Thank you! So glad you enjoyed my part in this!
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Love the photos and they also made me hungry 🙂
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My work here is done! 😉
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🙂
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