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I love food, no seriously i love food.

This blog was created out of my love for all things associated with food: cooking, the olfactive component, design, the spices, the sounds, the presentation, the inspiration it incites and all else that goes into the experience of creating something that is a gastric and visual pleasure.

I believe in REAL food. Having been raised on home cooking its where my heart is and where my inspiration grows. So I love to cook and to eat home cooked foods in the comfort of a dear friends home. That being said, I am not adverse to grabbing a bite or two in an establishment I adore. 

Although I became a vegetarian about eight years ago, after being the most voracious meat eater in my family, I don't despise those of a carnivorous persuasion and willingly recommend and ooh over their plates of flesh! A dish made well, is a dish made well.

A little about the name. 'Craven' is Jamaican slang for someone who is 'greedy' especially with regards to food. And 'Maven' is someone who is an 'expert or connoisseur' of whatever field they are associated with. However in my case it's a self inflicted moniker.

Having been raised by a Jamaican household in a European country and now settling in the USA, the 'culture' of food has been a central point of my life though in vastly different ways. No doubt this cultural eclecticism will fast become apparent to you in the content of cravenmaven.com

So enjoy - I hope this little blog can bring some entertainment to someone out there.

-x-
Saer

<em>(and yes those are terrible summer tan lines you can see on my feet!)</em>