Hey, Foodie Fam!
Welcome to my “Dear Foodie Fam" blog! I'm Dixie! My love language is food and I like to share it with my hubby, my family and friends new and old!Can't wait to share my voyages with you, too!
Welcome to my “Dear Foodie Fam" blog! I'm Dixie! My love language is food and I like to share it with my hubby, my family and friends new and old!Can't wait to share my voyages with you, too!
It was 2003 when I realized my gusto for food was unique.
I was chomping down my In-N-Out burger on my first date with my would-be-husband, Dutch. He pointed out how much I seemed to love eating!
Immediately, I wondered if I should’ve played more coy. Just as quickly as that thought dashed through my mind, I tossed it aside. Duh, I enjoy food! And if he was cool with that, he was husband material.
A stick-thin child, I preferred reading or drawing than eating. Food wasn’t a big deal until I entered middle school. Every Sunday and every grocery visit began to shape my palate and my ideas of the world around me.
My father raised my brother and I in the California Bay Area food world. Taking us out to eat on Sundays was a way for him to show he loved us. A respect for food as nourishment, bond and artistic experience was cultivated in me at every family dinner, at every treat out at a local haunt and at every celebration for every great accomplishment.
Today, my husband Dutch “feeds" my passion for melty, cheesy, crunchy, savory, luscious and sinfully delicious food. As much as I like to eat, he loves to feed me (happy wife = happy life?) and take tons of photos of me (he is a photographer). My appetite for food is matched by my passion to nerd out… to research and write about questions I have about food as a vehicle for culture, history and art.
As an artist, I am most attracted to art that unites the viewer to the overall human experience. I believe food is the only form of art, history and culture basic to survival and that truly intrigues me. Crafting, offering and sharing food is a uniquely human practice, which is why I have so much passion for food.
Through this blog, I've met foodies all over the world. When I meet foodies in person, it's funny to think we like to sit around and shove food in our faces. What a vulnerable, revealing thing to do with people I just met! What an ancient practice of bonding. It's impressive how sharing a meal with people just exposes us all as hungry creatures, at the end of it all. I adore how food literally brings love of all kinds to the table!
This is a log of my food stories. I hope it can bring us together, too.
Today, I am a Sacramento food blogger, foodoirist and content creator who loves sharing food stories from Northern California and around the world.
I never predicted I’d be a food blogger… but it doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been a blog subscription hoarder since 2005 when my blog roll of 300+ bloggers was a weekly digest for me.
After my education in graphic design and years in the advertising/creative world, I started a freelance creative business in 2015. Meaning to expand my creative skill arsenal, I decided to try my hand at social media marketing. That experiment became a passion project. My “Dear Foodie Fam” blog was born in the fall of 2017.
I don’t see myself as a critic or photographer and I’m definitely not a chef or scholar. I’m just an eater who quickly found a hunger in the Sacramento community for the pairing of two things: the power of storytelling and the power of food.
I invest hours of genuine engagement and relationship-building to maintain my foodie family. Because time and social energy is precious to me, I seek relationships rather than followers. It takes me an average of four hours to prepare a single quality static posts, at least eight hours to create eight minute videos and a week to write a blog post in my unique style.
Given the time and thought I invest in blogging, I do not accept complimentary products offered in trade for guaranteed exposure to my foodie fam. I post with all honesty about my foodie stories and I endorse only businesses I already truly enjoy.
For businesses I am not familiar with, I offer packages while holding to the value of my unique creative service and voice. I only operate with complete honesty of my opinions.
