Adventures in Food 1st eddition

I'm starting a blog........how crazy is that?  I'd love to just share my everyday adventures in food.  I travel the world extensively and get to try all kinds of different types of food.  I grew up in New Zealand....picture above is of my home town of Auckland.......note the sheep.  I lived just over on the hill to the right in a place called Hillsborough.  Yes, those are sheep in a public park.  I know that's random.........but really pretty typical for New Zealand.  I grew up eating lamb like we eat chicken or beef today.  Lamb, in those days,  was the cheapest thing.  We ate chicken for Christmas dinner only! Doesn't that sound like a freaky switch around?  I was born in the 1950's.  With no TV.  It didn't come to my house hold until about 1967 and it was black and white...and only one channel to watch between 5:00 pm and 9:00pm.  One of my first shows I watched regularly was "The Galloping Gourmet" starring Graham Kerr.  He was from England, but spent a few years in New Zealand too, so he was a huge influence on me and taught me heaps about food.  My grandmother was a wonderful creative cook, my mother a wonderful cook too, so I guess my love for  cooking came to me naturally.  I can remember hanging out in the kitchens of every summer camp I went to, and always wanting to learn and put into practice what I was seeing.  My fist ever recipe I ever made all by myself was cheese scones at about age 8.  I think it was my Grandmother who let me do that one, while she coached me from close by.  I just remember how fun it was to rub the butter between my fingers and blend it into the flour.  ........to be continued.