The Amateur Gourmet

According to this New Yorker piece [linked via Kottke.org], publishers are now scouring blogs for worthy writers to pen novels. Alas, I fear that my blog's "Food Blog" status will automatically disqualify me from the running; petty publishers dismissing me with the click of a mouse.

And so desperate times call for desperate measures. Tonight I present what may very well be an internet novelty: the first chapter of a first novel written by a food blogger for his food blogging audience. Call it food fiction, if you'd like. And I'm hoping to make the process participatory---perhaps a Choose Your Own Adventure type deal. In any case, please click below for CHAPTER ONE of what is certainly not a masterpiece.