The Raw Chef Blog

As a kid I used to play various versions of ‘tag’.  We called the game ‘It’, as when you were caught you were ‘It’ and you were duly awarded the lurgee (pronounced lerr-gee)!

We also played a very British version called British Bulldog, which involved trying to make it from one end of the playground to the other without someone holding on to you whilst shouting, "British Bulldog 1-2-3".  It usually involved the risk of being brought down on the cold, hard concrete floor and often ended in arguments about whether or not someone had let go before they finished saying the whole sentence.  There was one particular person that springs to mind that had to win everything, and who repeatedly lied about whether he’d been ‘got’.  Guess I’m still bitter about that.  I’ll work through it :-)

Anyway, I never got chased by the girls I wanted to be chased by, but now I’m older, I’ve been tagged by the prettiest girl in the playground! This is a new, more adult version (keep it clean please!) and it’s called ‘Blog Tag’.  The idea is that when you get tagged by another blog owner, you have to reveal 5 things about yourself and then tag 5 other bloggers.

Read on for my 5 ’secrets’ and to see who I tagged…

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I came across this post on Seth Godin’s blog today.  It’s interesting to see a marketer’s view on how the foods that are presented to us as ‘normal’ can be made so seem that way, and how anything outside that is made to seem extreme and weird.

"How did we get programmed this way? Is it an inevitable part of the human condition to prefer things that are bland, preprocessed and not so good for us? Or did we market ourself into this corner?"

Is this how we went from eating raw food to cooked food?  I suspect that happened before the marketers got involved, but it’s certainly one of those things that makes you go, "hmmmmmmmm".

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I’m very proud to say that this blog has been featured on 2 other blogs in the last month.  The first was on the excellent We Like It Raw , a blog I’m sure most people will be familiar with.  They had some very nice words to say about me so if you’ve come here as a result of seeing me there, welcome to you!

Secondly, I’ve been awarded the Applied Hacking Award from TypePad Hacks , for the work I did a few months ago , when you may have noticed the appearance of this blog change slightly.  This was a surprise for me, albeit a lovely one, as I never really considered myself a ‘hacker’ :-).  It’s surprising how good you can get at something if you enjoy it!

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