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For picture credit, click here.I was sitting in a work meeting the other day, and the conversation turned to the downsides of technology. "Kids these days don't know how to really communicate. All they do is use Facebook or text. Why don't they pick up the phone or meet in person?"
I had to disagree. Even though I grew up in the days of dial phones, tvs that had only 4 working channels, and typewriters, I understand that technology can actually build relationships and create friendships one would otherwise never have.
In the early to mid-1990s, I was actively involved in rec.food.cooking. In those days, only people who worked or were affiliated with universities had access to the internet and to the affinity groups that linked people with like interests together.
I became so close to some people in rec.food.cooking that when I became pregnant with my first child, several people virtually got together and sent me $250 as a baby gift -- big money even by today's standards, given to me by people I had never physically met but who knew me well.
Fast forward thirteen years later to when I started a new culinary adventure, this food blog. Things are way fancier these days, with individual blog templates, pretty photography, and search engines like Google, but behind the newest gizmos and gadgets are people.
And people connect. We become friends. We become involved and invested in each other.
Like when I teared up when reading about Ravenous Couple's engagement. Or reveled in La Table de Nana's idyllic life with her gorgeous grandchildren. Or enjoyed Mid-Autumn festival with Little Teachow. Or checked in on SippitySup who broke his jaw in an over-raucous game with his nephews (can you imagine a food blogger with his jaw wired shut?).
I could go on and on about Aggie, Trissa, Ellie, Zurin, Jackie, Nat and Annie, Mike, and the fantastic food bloggers that I follow.
Talented cooks, yes. But stellar people, even more.
So are food blogs really about food? Maybe. Or maybe they're about sharing the joy of every day moments and what we have in common, no matter where we live, our gender, sexuality, religion, what color we are, how much money we have in our pockets, or whether we're young or old.
As Ravenous Couple's tagline so aptly says, we're "cooking up life."
Amen to that.
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