The Bicycle Chef blog grew out of a previous blog I had written in 2007 on Yahoo! 360. I wrote for a year, starting out whining about what to write and why. Then slowly I began to find my focus by sharing my recipes that I wrote weekly for a cooking class series I taught at Williams-Sonoma at the Bellevue in Philadelphia. From there I started taking food photos and I began to carry my digital camera with me everywhere, finding interesting things, street art, bicycles, people, you name it, everywhere. Then, as now, I wrote about my depression, my new found passion for bicycling and I blogged about my weight loss progress via Weight Watchers. I kept blogging even though very few people were reading the posts - the blog was that difficult to find! If I remember it correctly, the address was this long string of labels - http Yahoo360/neenyd03 and some other keywords. Too bad I didn't start out with Blogger from the very beginning, though The Bicycle Chef name might not have come into being had I started here first. After 10 months or so at Yahoo! there were rumblings behind the scenes in the blog world that the site was closing and moving over to a social media network style blog or MySpace style site. That wasn't for me. I migrated over here and thought about a new blog name. By this time, biking had become a huge outlet for me and my recipe writing and postings were keeping me busy with several posts a week. Biking and cooking. I was a chef. I was an avid cyclist. I tossed around a few names, but none struck my fancy. And then it was so obvious what the name should be - what it had to be. My food photography was expanding. My digital camera and my Flickr site were getting a serious work out. In January 2008, I posted my first recipe called Bibbity Bobbity Boo; The Bicycle Chef was born.
Feel free to poke around the site. Type in a food or ingredient name into the search bar - you never know what recipe or post will appear. Click on the tag cloud; as you can see some tags are more prevalent than others. Pumpkin, cooking, recipes - are frequently used tags. A recipe index page is in the work, which will make it easier to find all of the recipes I've posted during the past 4 years. Look at the archives too - I've been slowly (painstakingly) adding my Yahoo!360 blog posts.
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