My Web Debut!

Hello presently non-existent reader...

My name is Kori Alexander am I am here to blog about food, which thrills, excites and fascinates me. I am a recent graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University's Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing. As I approach the two year anniversary of my graduation from grad school, what I have to show for myself is an unfinished novel, a stressful and overly time-consuming job which makes it difficult to work on said novel, a recent case of mounting rage largely as a result of said stressful job and an (as-yet unsaid) lack of alternative professional prospects.


So here I am, two years out of grad school, doing a job I never thought I'd do and becoming the sort of girl who goes home in the evening and lays out a lavish supper and actually cares that the red peppers are roasted prior to their inclusion in the paella.  Coincidence?

I think not.

One of my poetry professors in college wrote a poem about a war veteran experiencing the phenomena of ghost limb. For those unfamiliar, ghost limb is essentially when an amputee experiences physical pain in the area where the former limb would be (were it still attached). With my non-existent psych degree, I am diagnosing a case of ghost limb in myself, a longing for the former writer in me, the girl who had time in grad school to spend whole afternoons composing a single page, tearing it apart, then recomposing. The girl who could indulge her inner-meticulousness to it's utmost extreme.

Due to time limitations, she's surfacing now only in the form of an increasingly anal attention to recipe correctness and culinary craft.

Eric, my boyfriend, love of my life, has suggested I find some means of written expression before, in a fit of frustration, I set the racks of celebrity autobiographies (seriously, Tori Spelling gets editorial attention? Ricky Martin?) in Barnes and Noble aflame.

This blog is my attempt to quiet my own inner rage by sharing some of my culinary creative output  with you. I hope that both your life and your belly feel a little more full when you read it.