Marijke Blazer's blog

Because promoting an activity is like publishing a well targetted press release accessible to a huge audience of “incidental journalists”.

A travel blog is characterized by its great stories, a travel guide by its practical information. Curious food lover combines the best of both worlds; inspiring stories linked to practical information about culinary activities. You can best compare the website with a good cookbook; sometimes you just want to browse through the stories, tips and pictures, sometimes you actually want to cook one of the recipes and then you need practical details.

On first sight, it seems logical when an activity represents a geographical culture, it should be located in the setting it concerns. For example a restaurant specialized in Piemontese cuisine is logically found in Piemonte in Italy. It is possible, however, to find for example a great Piemontese restaurant in Barcelona. This restaurant can be a valuable addition to the culinary activity collection when it serves either a ‘foreign microcosmos’ or a ‘culinary ambassador’ function.

Right, let’s start with a challenging question (that is to say, if I am to keep the answer short).

The thought behind CFL is that culinary customs = culture (more about the CFL definition of culture follows).

So you can experience a culture by physically exploring culinary activities (more about the CFL definition of culinary activities follows).

Or you can virtually experience a culture by enjoying interesting and inspiring stories behind its culinary activities.

And those stories, in their turn, can be an inspiration to go and try those culinary activities yourself (and write about it, etc, etc, etc).

And in the long run I hope Curious Food Lover will contribute to a better world. I believe that meaningful information – knowledge – about other cultures can help to increase understanding and respect for other cultures and help to learn that there are no universal truths (except for the power of love, of course).

I am a big fan from the learning principle of ‘contrast and compare’.