I started this indulgence of a blog just before starting to write my PhD thesis. Suffice it to say, I got distracted somewhere along the way. In early 2012 I was a young bachelor, making my living as a graduate student. Yes, if you stay in school long enough, they will eventually PAY you to remain a student. But for only so long. Now, I am a married man with five cats (the picture on the right depicts what having five cats looks like when you go to brush your teeth in the morning), one dog and a house. Somewhere along the way I even ditched the Oxford comma.
What hasn't changed is my adoration of the food that will surely lead to my untimely demise. In a brilliant twist of irony, part of my current work at JSNN focuses on understanding the development of atherosclerosis through simple physics.
Hopefully I will unravel the mechanism and develop a cure before I succumb to the diseases caused by the beautiful dish pictured on the left (courtesy
Pack's Tavern in Asheville, NC). Not only is that bacon and a sunny-side-up egg on a burger... there is also a crispy hashbrown tucked neatly between various layers of protein. The only shame in a meal like this is the wasted space occupied by those cowering
vegetables.
As fate would have it, I've made it back to my old college town (and Megan's hometown) of Greensboro, NC. As it turns out, it's
not so bad after all. There's the new, with breweries popping up out of the woodwork. But there's also the old, like
Tex and Shirley's Pancake House, where you could be like everyone else and just get a giant stack of pancakes... or be just cruel and enjoy a plate of grilled chicken and eggs.
So here's to 2015 being the year of my triumphant return to spending a lot of time writing a few words that no one will ever read about food that has already been consumed.
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