All my so-called life I have wanted to be a syndicated food columnist. With the Circle of Food blog - I can be.
My favorite topic is food
Food brings people together and that’s just we want Circle of Food to do. I bet anyone that you can get on a bus or stand in line and talk to a complete stranger about food. Food is the great equalizer. Food nourishes our body as well as our soul with memories and positive experiences.
Many years ago while slaving away as a civil servant in Los Angeles, I became best friends with Mary Ellen Aguilar because for one moment at the water fountain she told me that her beloved grandmother used to make tortillas and I shared that my recently deceased grandmother made challah. Her ancestors came from Mexico and mine from Russia yet we had a food connection. Sharing food, whether actually breaking bread or emotionally through memories, is a bonding experience.
Food blogging promotes foodie passions
Like the roller coaster of progress that the Internet continues to ride, blogging, too, expands. It’s more than just self publishing and dear diary-like posts of longing and loneliness. Blogging has its own terminology of pinging, social book marking, RSS feeds, plug-ins, and trackbacks. The blogosphere continues to evolve attracting businesses large and small for more promotional options.
I’m in great company here with partners Coco Carmichael and Cindy McMahen, web designer/database diva, and search marketing expert, respectively. I’m the copywriter or content writer and have been writing web copy under my shingle of Bridge Marketing since 1998. I’ve written search engine optimized web copy for sex toys and long term life insurance, pharmaceutical drugs and dating and everything in between. I write brochures, advertorials, press releases, and brainstorm taglines and bus benches.
I like to read cookbooks in bed, make creative meals and dine out with friends. My best friends are food writers and we dub ourselves, the Foodettes. Some day we’ll get pink bowling shirts with an “F” scripted on the pocket. I also write the Noshing Around column for Tucson Weekly and am the copywriter/marketing consultant for South Bay School of Cooking.
When not doing the food thing — I’m a greyhound adopter and activist, avid reader, film buff, colorist (every wall in my house is a different color), thrift-store aficionado, and wayward explorer.
I would love to hear from you. Please subscribe to the blog or add it to your RSS feed, send a cookbook or product for review, and/or participate as a contributor or author. Contact me at karyn@circleoffood.com. Thank you.
Have fun with food,
Sassy Karyn Zoldan
Thank you to Mary Ann Collins, Manhattan Beach, Calif. artist, for permission to use her chocolate lips. The entire piece measures 81-inches by 96-inches by 38-inches, is 60 pounds of chocolate painted on top of hand-carved commercial grade Styrofoam, and mounted on 8-foot scaffolding. The title of “Under Construction” is her take on what women are doing with their lips these days.
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