Adventure Nine: Thoughts on Food blogging

My agenda for this blog is to bring you guys a new place to try out each week, however sometimes doing so can be very hard. I've lived in this area for a long while, it starts to get difficult to find new and interesting restaurants hiding in the back alleys of the place you've lived since birth. Even as such I still try to find new places to write about. Of course I could write about some chain restaurant or something along those lines, but I feel that the only reason I would have to write about something that everybody has already been to a million times is if I find something chaotically interesting and or awesome about the whole deal. Nobody wants to hear about that hamburger they ate at Wendy's; however I'm sure that there is somebody got a hamburger made for them by a one armed midget who ended up throwing 6 patties of beef on it(true story). However finding unique restaurants is getting increasingly difficult as more and more things become franchised. There is something to be said about being able to get that one dish you like in Tyson's Corner Virginia, all the way out in New Haven Connecticut . But in the end, doesn't the fact that each town has its own unique cuisine help give character to that area? I could go on and on about the bitchin' barbeque chicken pizza rolls from Radford, or the Lasagna from Marie's in Sarasota Florida that really ties me to these places. The food is something that you can remember just as much as you would the times that you do other things there, sometimes more. Searching out these little glimmers of culinary character can be quite difficult, because it requires a sense of adventure, an open mind, and a little prayer to make sure that you don't order the beef with broccoli, only to find some sort of meat, and some sort of mystery vegetable with a scent too terrible to behold. But regardless I press on, and next week I will bring something a lot more solid than one armed midgets, pizza rolls, and mystery Chinese food.