Welcome to The World of Food & Wine!

Food has always been a great intrigue for me as a boy. I remember as i grew up in the 80's my mother enrolled on a cooking course with Lever Brothers (now commonly known as Unilever) in my hometown of Harare, Zimbabwe; and after enrolling on this course, she came back home with a multitude of food "tricks"and a thick volume book with recipes, and it is from that moment, after seeing what can be created with raw ingredients and your hands, combined with some creativity, that i realized that FOOD was going to be my life.

Of course, we all need food to be nourished and to survive; but to me, i have come to discover that the world of food is more of an ""experience"" rather than just a biological process!

As we go through our daily lives, we relish at the thought of our next meal and get excited, with our mouths watering at the sheer thought of what we are going to have for dinner, that is, if its anything tantalizing to the tastebuds.

As such, i feel that the FOOD ""Experience"" must always be exciting. Eating must always be something that not only nourishes the body, but creates excitement and eventual satisfaction with every meal experience.

The world has a multitude of cultures, environments, preferences and ingredients that make the food ""experience"" virtually impossible to be identical. And it is with this that as the great ones say ""Your Food Experience is like a book, and if you have experienced one culture of food, you have simply opened one page!""

Lets enjoy the journey that is FOOD!

Tasty Regards

Wilbert - From the Food & Wine Corner