My Manifesto and How I Started

Hi there.

For the purposes of this blog, you can call me Mr. Scratch.

I am not a cook.  I am not a food critic.  I am in no way a food professional.  Food is just something I love and that I love making.  For a long time now I have always enjoyed taking anything that I love and making it for myself.  On occasion I make my own clothes, I have grown my own produce and I have always cooked for myself when I have the time.  What really got me interested in making everything from the most basic ingredients was home brewing.  That is one of the topics that I will be going over in this blog.  I'm not sure that I will be growing my own wheat and barley any time soon but I can't say it's out of the realm of possibilities.  Living in an apartment without a garden puts up a few roadblocks in the world of agriculture.


What I want from this project is simple.  I am using this blog as a tool to record my attempts at making the food I like from the ground up.  The sense of fulfillment that I get from just cooking a meal is a simple but good feeling.  It's cheaper, healthier and almost always more delicious.  Taking that same meal and using only ingredients that I have made makes  that good experience into a great one. I want to share this passion with anyone willing to follow it and anyone that has an interest in food.