Beauty and Her Feast, a food blog. Yes, I am serious. I goof around about a lot of stuff. But this…100% serious. I should have done it long ago. It’s just so obvious but I dug my heels in and resisted because everyone was doing it. Me, food, writing. I love all three so, what’s the hold up? I already know there are a ton of food blogs. I read them. Some good, some awful, some I don’t even get (bacon blogs?). I haven’t come up with a recipe for this blog but know it will consist of where I eat, what I eat and possibly what I cook along with a few guest chef appearances.
When I was younger, I always had a few good guy friends that were the fall back guys. Maybe it wasn’t very nice of me but it’s true. When you’re feeling kinda lonely and you need a friend, the fall back guy was always there. As a happily married woman, I have fall back food instead. It’s those places I go when I crave comfort or I am not in the mood for a new trend. Am I addicted to the sliders at the Four Seasons…YES. Or any dish with gnocchi at Naha…freakin YES. How about Belly Shack's meatballs…ugh, YES. I cannot believe I am going to admit this, but some nights, I go online and just read menus. Sick, I know. Prince Charming thinks I’m insane. But everyone is addicted to something. I can sit for hours reading websites, magazines, menus and recipes. I think I missed my calling but hey, it’s never too late.
Not long ago, someone asked when or how my love of food began. I can’t say there was one turning point but truly, my fondest memories are as a child returning home from school (school not being my fondest memory) to smell my mothers cooking in the kitchen of red beans and rice or bolognese. I was blessed with an Italian mother who grew up in New Orleans. Someone in this family was bound to end up a foodie, right? Thus, I learned to cook Southern AND Italian food. By college, I was out dining at hot spots in Chicago instead of going to keg parties. By no means have I ever been a cheap date. I then went to Florence, Italy to study art history and Italian in hopes of working in the fashion industry. While there, part of our daily routine was helping in the kitchen of the very tiny school where we were studying. I fell in love with being in the kitchen as I learned to cook the simple Amatriciana pasta dish one afternoon. It just never occurred to me that I could pursue a culinary career…so I didn’t.
All these years later, I have been cooking for friends and family. I scour every city I have every visited for the best restaurants. I remember my favorite meals I have dined on throughout the world. Now, I share my love of food on Beauty and Her Feast.
Bon Appetit!
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Kiki Luthringshausen has been an interior designer for 15 years in Chicago with her firm, K-Haus. She started blogging five years ago and now authors the very popular and funny blog, Confessions of a Tear Down. She is also the Chicago food writer for examiner.com and writes free-lance for lifestyle publications like makeitbetter.net She and her husband, Vincent, aka Prince Charming, have four hungry children that eat at least five times a day, Lauren, Hudson, Lucie & Thibault. Kiki is convinced their favorite foods are what she consumed while pregnant: chocolate, Italian, chocolate, Asian, in that order. So be careful what you eat while preggers!
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