Cooking Chemist from Chicago

[Cooking Chemist]

Hi all,
Just joined the forum today and am excited to learn from other foodies! I also just started my own blog and can't wait to get some feedback from my fellow cooks. A little about me - I'm a chemist by trade but a chef by heart and have found that my chemistry background has really helped my cooking. Always looking for new recipes and healthy eating tips. Thanks!

[Mama Mangia]

advertising your blog? or are you here to particiate and share recipes?

[Cooking Chemist]

Clearly I'm not advertising my blog since I didn't even post a link for it. I was just hoping to join a friendly cooking community to bounce some ideas around. However, it seems like I have found the wrong place since you are more interested in harassing people for having blogs than being friendly.

[ricksrealpitbbq]

Clearly I'm not advertising my blog since I didn't even post a link for it. I was just hoping to join a friendly cooking community to bounce some ideas around. However, it seems like I have found the wrong place since you are more interested in harassing people for having blogs than being friendly.

Not the case at all. It's just that mentioning it right off the bat is considered by many forums to be a form of spamming. We'd love to have you join us and contribute to our group. Of course if you want to leave I guess you are free to do that too.

[Mama Mangia]

and if they leave - then it proves my point - they just want to advertise their blog and not participate

we'll see - time will tell -

button's ready

[jpshaw]

Welcome to Spice Place Chemist. We're actually a very friendly group of foodies here but just a little gun-shy. Until I see a link to, or advertisement for, a blog I will see you as another fellow food nut. I am on a very low sodium diet so I will be very interested in any healthy food tips.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

WelcomeCCFC!!!

I am CCCathy and want to send you a warm welcom, excited to have you join and a chemist no less Wow I am impressed!!! I loved chemistry and will love seeing your take on cooking from a chemist's perspective. When you can, please share more about your love of cooking. I hope you will like it here and not leave. I for one would love to visit your site, and I hope as you share here and become active (I think you have to have a certain # of posts and then you'll be able to give us the link) you can share it with us. (I will go have a look at your member info, maybe I will find it there.) I really am curious. But anyhow...welcome and I hope that you will continue to be with us here on SpicePlace!

A fellow "Foodie", CCCathy

P.S. If you would please send me a PM to let me know about your site. Thanks

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Howdy Cooking Chemist! And Welcome to Spice Place! We're glad you're here!

Please permit a word- then I'll quickly get down off the soap-box... as mentioned by another- we've turned a bit gun-shy here because for some reason this site sees more than a fair share of spammers- for whatever reason. So although to come off inhospitable right off the bat might have been premature... so would be jumping to conclusions real quick without digging a wee-bit deeper. Afterall, our "mama" is beloved and has been our protector thru some really nasty nusiances... So, with that outta the way...

From one Illinoisan to another- welcome!

So, what's a chemist cook and enjoy eating?

I can certainly identify with the whole chemistry aspect of food- I was a popor student in school and found learning boring if I didn't connect directly to the task at hand... so every bit of chemstry I'm familiar with likely has come to me through food-handling.

I was a professional chef for ages- worked in Alaska for the last many years I was in kitchens. But am now back where I started, in the rural part of down-state, near aging parents and family again, working in an unrelated second career.

I miss kitchens- so I can also identify with trying to make connections w/ other foodies to remain connected and to stay invloved.

Please share more...