Prandial Wanderings

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Strange Fruit of the Week time!

This week, we bring you the Cara Cara orange/my one true love. I had never even heard of these amazing fruits until I moved to San Francisco, and now they are basically my main source of energy. They just started popping up all over farmers’ markets and groceries around the city last November, and I’ve been eating them non-stop ever since.

They’re still not entirely sure what its parentage is (the fact fruit genealogy is a field is nerdily hilarious), so sometimes they class the fruit as a mutation. Mutant fruits = tasty fruits! The best guess is its related to Washington navels and to a less-awesome-sounding-but-admittedly-still-intriguingly-named Brazilian Bahia navel - I definitely need to track down the latter.

I admit they’re not strange in the conventional sense, but their name is fun to say, and they are at least 14 different kinds of delicious. They’re almost out of season, so snag some while you still can!

- Charlie

Prandial adj. ‘pran-dē-əl\ : of or relating to a meal

This is not your average food blog. There won’t be any recipes for cute raspberry cupcakes. This won’t be a log of our daily eating habits. You won’t be inundated by blurry amateur food porn.

There will be recipes, but they’ll be how-to’s on fermentation, so you can enjoy homemade pickles and moonshine. You might hear about things we eat, but only because we want to share kooky Wikipedia articles that mention them. There will be photographs of fruits and veggies, but only of the classy, high-production variety (see above).

We are Amanda and Charlie, and this is Prandial Wanderings.

We wanted to start this blog because, let’s face it, we love to eat, and it’s hard not to, living in the foodie capital of America. But we also wanted to approach things from a fresh angle. We’ll explore food in literature and film, we’ll supply trivia and fun facts. We’re really playing to our strengths here. While we love to cook and prepare food, we’re admittedly mediocre chefs. But we still want to contribute to and be a part of the culture of food that surrounds us. This is our own take on being foodies.

So, really, this is a blog about anything even vaguely related to food. It will be delightfully tangential. 

I hope you will join us on our Prandial Wanderings :)

- Amanda