food science= interesting and satisfying, vegan=i can eat it!

Who am I?  A simple but unsatisfying answer is that I am a human, the extant species of the genus Homo.  That is the thing about science, so intellectually satisfying yet so emotionally empty...or is it?  Take a glass of fine wine for example.  Just saying "cabernet sauvignon" elicits feelings of grandeur, culture, above the petty stressors of everyday living.  Yet, "cabernet sauvignon" is nothing but science in a finely stemmed glass.  For me, food is science at its most interesting.  Both intellectual and emotional.  

Why vegan food?  It took me awhile to realize this but because that is what is most interesting to me! so deal with it!  I have always found my personal vegan lifestyle at odds in many ways with the various food science books and tv-shows (I love you Alton Brown even though I can't eat most of what you cook).  Not that I don't find the science of curdling milk interesting, I just never felt I could fully appreciate the process unless I could cook, smell, touch, and most importantly eat the final cheese product.  It's like someone telling you about this fantastic party that Ashton Kutcher will be at but where the cover charge is $500.  It is possible but it will hurt.  One hurts your pocket-book, the other your stomach.  

So back to the question "who am i?".  While I can't answer that question at the moment, I hope that somewhere in these pages there will be some hint of an answer.  With so much wrong in my life right now (that's another blog), only two things make any sense to me- vegan food and food science.  I am not saying I am an expert in either of these topics (though I hope to be someday); I do hope to learn a lot about them as well as maybe a little more about who I am.   

Ashton+CabernetSauvignon= ?