Hello Steemit! After a few days of poking around, reading your introductions and getting to know your blog posts, I am finally ready to introduce myself. I’m Meredith—as it literally states in my username. It was an honest error on my part, but after seeing how the Steemit community seems to embrace transparency, let’s just call it that!
And that is the reason I’m here: I’m so excited to have a platform to provide my own content, to interact with yours, and to be unfailingly me. As a writer-turned-marketer, I’ve spent many years both providing and procuring content for brands and individuals, but have missed creating my own.
I am passionate about food and travel, but for the majority of my career I was on the marketing side of it, paying newly famous blogger/influencers to write about my clients and brands. While I’ve admired how the really good ones have turned their blogs into business, it’s also made me a bit cynical, and still wouldn’t have satisfied the need to write my own stories. My inner blogger needed something different.
I think it needed Steemit.
But let’s get that collective sigh out of the way—UGGGH, ANOTHER FOOD BLOGGER! I’m with you, and that’s actually one of the reasons I haven’t done it before now. I hope to make my posts on food a little different from 18 pictures of prep work with three instructional paragraphs, 28 “YUM!” comments and no fewer than 200 exclamation points.
I mean, that’s fine if that’s what you’re looking for—sometimes you just need a frosting recipe and some pretty pictures—but I hope to provide a little more context, a little more meat, a little more story.
That is what I love about it. Food, to me, is an all-inclusive, ongoing novel for the ages. The stories are endless, from who grows it, where it comes from, to what they do with it and why. Of course I love the eating part, too, but that’s the truly subjective element. If you don’t like peanut butter, you won’t like a few of my recipes, but you may still appreciate the story about the peanut farmer/ballroom dancer.
I believe food is reflective of our humanity (or lack thereof); it is the thing we all have in common, all over the globe. We eat it, we love it, we hate it, we work with it, we absolutely need it to survive. And we all have stories, from learning to make our grandmother’s strudel, or eating lunch with elephants in Thailand, to that one Thanksgiving where we all got food poisoning (that poor dog).
I like to think these stories draw us together with a common thread that, in some way, we can all relate to. And if you don’t totally relate, I hope you will simply enjoy my stories and share your own. Thank you for having me, and I look forward to being a member of the Steemit community! Cheers!
*A few of these photos came from my Instagram account @mepetran, because sometimes we just want pretty pictures. All photos have stories.
I am a silly robot!
Strange, sorry.
!cheetah bad robot
Beep boop bop!
Hello robot. What is going on? Hello community, what is this?
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/bots-and-the-steemit-ecosystem
Maybe this will help explain....I'm new to this as well
We are foodies and soulfully sharing it, thank you, namaste :)
Congrats on what has got to be the biggest earning intro post I've seen yet AND on following your passions. It's going to pay off here. I think we've both obviously found what we've been looking for and preparing ourselves for with this platform, and I'm so glad you reached out fellow ginger! All my week's worth of knowledge here are yours - and I'm answering the question you left on my first successful post next.
http://guysworkblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/gratuity-not-included.html One of my bad nights, haha!
Ha! Thank you so much for the support! We Ginjas (ginger ninjas) need to stick together, right? I really appreciate your feedback and the follow up! Also will work on photo size/layout on my next post, those up there are a bit ridic.
Ginjas!! That's hilarious, sorry I missed it earlier. be well, you're going to kill it here
I am a foodie at heart so that Avocado toast has me salivating. Off to follow you on Instagram. I am new to Steemit myself and researching and reading before I put up my introduceyourself post
Fantastic! Thanks for reading! I have maybe a thousand photos of avocado toast (with and without a runny egg, which is #yolkporn) because I live on it. Best of luck and I look forward to your first post!
will you cook for me? thanks.
Anytime and always!!
How cool, another Meredith on the forum :)
I'm looking forward to seeing your content. Hopefully it has a little more meat (story) than a simple recipe with some pictures. Welcome aboard!
Yay! I rarely meet a fellow Meredith (although my best friend growing up is one, but went by Mimi). Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy what comes next...
Welcome to Steemit! I love peanut butter. I live in Mexico, and there's a place near my house that sells mole paste, but also freshly made peanut butter and sesame paste. I've never walked in and said "Please give me a 1 kg bag of peanut butter," but it's nice to know I can if I ever feel inclined.
Have a good one
Welcome @metedithpetran!