November 10, 2005

Interested Souls:

I recently had a chance to offer my services in the area of food (something that I especially like to belly-up to). So here is what I wrote to the people in charge, seeking to connect a diverse world of experience to something that a project-focused person might appreciate.

You can also see how I do a bit of AgentBegging on my search for “Best Seller”-hood.

Feel free to grab one of these, edit it to your need and be my surrogate to someone with access to paying work.

Thanks.

Allan Shore

DEAR WHOMEVER HAS A WRITING JOB OF INTEREST:

In responding to this post, I feel like a Yam Zoup without its pineapple.

I am what one might call a “Shock and Awe” vegetarian wannabe. When the spirit of “vegability” moves me, I come up with awesome dishes that blast and smash the meatier competition out of the soup pot (such as a pureed yam soup stewed with chopped pineapple bits and smoothed over with Soy milk! Works great with milling spices for the holidays, too!).

At other times, lacking a co-dependent confidant, I give in to the temptations and sacrifice the sole to the grill master.

Which got me thinking: Someone needs to be able to call me a liar more often.

I swear to Gosh that when people eat my inventive creations, they do not believe they are mostly vegetarian and somewhat balanced in nutrition and calories. They actually call me a liar and ask why I don’t consider opening a Liar’s Café for the “could-be-if-pushed” crowd of healthy near-eaters.

So why not start looking for other possible convertees through your publication?

Why not accept someone who writes about the ways that we can rethink food speak and food prep with a flare toward those who want a more or less banal conversion?

I have never written much when it comes to recipes and such, but I have had some ideas for exploring the whole idea of “Community Eats,” the concept of focusing on foodstuffs that we find at the gatherings of our friends, relatives and ordinary enablers. This project will eventually allow us all to relish in these traditions while opening a fresh bag of pre-washed opportunities that lettuce (oops, bad writer, bad!) make a few steps forward without giving up the backward past. You can see a very basic outline of this idea by clicking on thismagic phrase. (Do note what the “pb” in pbwiki.com stands for!)

You can see also that I have written about other food-type commodities. In “Drinking With My Doctor” I wrote about the confusion I face as a patient whose health depends on good nutrition, including an occasional glass of fine-quality red win. So why isn’t that covered by my prescription insurance?

Or perhaps you would prefer enjoying “Fast Food at a Snail’s Pace.” I wrote that for HappyNews.com even in the face of my obsession with finding a solution to the nation’s obesity problem with just “Five Cents On The Dine” (an empowerment strategy for developing a large pot of money to encourage community discussions about healthy food policies, including the abundance of fast food outlets).

My style does splash out of the bowl into more traditional journalism here and there. Just yesterday I had published again on "HappyNews.com" a piece about the United Nation's World Food Programme’s Food-Force.com interactive game to educate and engage the public in interactive learning about the worldwide issue of hunger on a vegetable-abundant planet.

You can see each of these and their posting places through my O, as in Opinion spot. (Where I just posted today a sample book review on a much less important issue, world war and the search for something resembling peace.) (You can see my “brief” bio at my Virtual Home, where I am stumbling on the things I must do to survive.)

Anyway, if you would like a regular contributor, let me know and I’ll toss the fish bits and steak-itos out before you call.

Otherwise, feel free to turn away an advocate for the close-but-not-yet consumers who are dying to toss a nickel toward the idea of a better, slower way to enjoy life through food.

My best,

Allan Shore

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