Takin’ it to the next level…

I’ve decided to take the plunge and record all of my thoughts onto a computer. While this may seem like an attempt to boast my ego—who doesn’t think twice before reading one of their friends blogs?—I am basically starting it to keep a delicious record of all the tasty food I eat.

Although this blog idea has been floating around in my head for a bit, I was inspired to write this today by a friend during work this morning. We were standing around the kneading table, prepping bread for the day when he started talking about his new year’s resolution. “What is it,” I asked. “Well, I wanted to be as vague as possible. This year my new year’s resolution will be to take it to the next level.”


Genius…


…Pure genius

Anyways, after taking everything to the next level at work today (you can imagine how that phrase never gets old…what can’t be taken to the next level? The sky is the limit, until of course you take it to the next level) I am now sitting at my desk taking my food obsession to the next level—the gastronomic blog.

I figured the best way to start off this rambling, tangential journal of my eating adventures is to state some things about myself: My name is Justin Lloyd, I work at a bakery in Vestal, NY, attend Binghamton University and will be going to Spain to study for a semester in a few weeks. I have an ongoing list of restaurants I need to eat at. Most of them are in New York City and I have spent many hours reading about everyone and everything related to them. I write a food section in a magazine at school and like to pretend I have good taste. I cook a lot, have cut many of my fingers, and burned other appendages. I look forward to slaving in a sweaty, hot kitchen in the next few years and waste time reading about people who have done or do the same. I like to drink/brew beer and will eat everything that is one my plate. Slow and steady is my chomping motto and I stand by it. Also, I play music—most recently an 80’s cover band that couldn’t take itself seriously—and will probably chatter your ear off if you don’t tell me to shut it.

Anyways, I plan on really getting this thing off the ground when I head to Europe. Until then I will fill it with foggy memories of fanciful meals I’ve had in the past year or so. Everyone else gets to tell the world their opinions; I feel it’s time for me to let my taste buds do a little bragging…or at least a pitiful whimper now and then.