Why We Eat

We eat for a lot of reasons. We eat to feel satisfied. We eat to belong. We eat to celebrate the high-points and be comforted at the low-points. We eat to be stronger and healthier. We eat to socialize. We eat to explore new countries, cultures and cuisines. We eat because sometimes it's easier to get business done over a satisfying meal versus a never-ending conference call.

Eating gives us fuel to do amazing things like run marathons.  Eating gives us a reason to gather and reconnect. Eating unites us across continents and divides. Eating cures hangovers.

We eat to remember what it was like to sit at our mom's kitchen table. We eat to feel whole again. We eat to feel transported to another time and place.We eat for a lot of reasons...these are just some of mine.

The Drunken Goat Dispatches will explore the joys of food and eating its many forms: fancy meals, greasy meals, classic-comfort meals, healthy meals and long-sprawling-god-I-hope-this-never ends meals.

Thank you for reading and following The Drunken Goat Dispatches. A special thanks also to my friends and family who encouraged me to marry my two passions: eating and writing.

"Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well-matched they are as body and soul, living partners." ~Andre Simon