I'm new to the blogosphere--the active part of it, anyway. But I have read too many genius Half-Dipper and Tea Masters posts, and was too fangirl-ized by Julie and Julia, not to want to give it a shot.
So, food and tea and Montreal. Montreal is the coolest city ever. Its bilingualness is cool. Its marchés publics are cool. Its ethnic diversity is cool. Hell, even Alstom Télécité (those screens on the Metro) is cool. J'adore tout ce qui fait Montreal--pour une ville aussi cool que ça, c'est foule beaucoup. I'm thinking this blog will be bilingue in a minor way. I'm anglo bilingual, so English is my préférence. But if this blog is to be partly about this city, what good is it if it doesn't communicate a tiny part of the thrill of living in one of the only truly bilingual cities anywhere?
Thoughts on food: life is too short to eat bad food. Really. (It's also too short to use teabags and not explore your city.) I love experimenting with food, especially ethnic, via restaurants and ethnic grocery stores (ethnic grocery stores are wonderful things) and home cooking and exciting cookbooks. I can cook, or so I've been told; my skills are not in an exceptional way of things, but I'm getting better and having fun doing so, which is the point. I want to post about new stuff that I try--restaurants, recipes, spices, Chinatown markets, whatever.
And finally, tea. I've been drinking tea (technically, anyways) I suppose for five years now. I grew up with it, but a very Western brewing style. Never, ever, teabags, which I'm grateful for; we drank it from a big teapot, Twinings looseleaf, in mugs, with sugar, and pretty much Lapsang Souchong all the time. But I've grown out of that. I still do it (although, of course, without the sugar) but I'm a whole lot more savvy to Eastern brewing styles, thanks to excellent tea bloggers, to my Chinese friends, and to my favourite tea place, Camellia Sinensis. I buy tea and teapots on a semi-compulsive level. My favourite instrument is my cheap little gaiwan. I take tasting notes and make little tea setups. So, as the Half-dipper says, I am a little bit sad.
In any case, no one is going to be reading this, so I guess I will persevere writing to you, cyberspace, until I get some actual readers. I feel a bit like a maniacal monologuer, but I suppose that's the whole point. Till next post, when we will see how the actual blogging goes.
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