In Which Our Author Becomes A Food Blogger, Without Justification
It started out as a random comment at a dinner cooked by my longtime companion (SHUT UP YOU GUYS) Chef Carl, the man behind my infamous 40th birthday party. I'm not even sure who came up with the idea. In the famous words of "Starship", however, nothing's gonna stop us now.
When great artists come together to work in an unfamiliar space, you can get anything from John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman to Ishtar. I'm hoping that this collaboration between noted Midwestern food writer Jill Moorhead and myself is closer to the former than the latter. The idea is simple: I write about food, a subject on which I am a complete and utter Philistine. My willful ignorance of haute cuisine has had consequences ranging from the hilarious (In 2006, I was feted at a special dinner within VW's Transparent Factory in Dresden and served caviar as a main course, which I refused to eat, to the utter consternation of the entire plant management) to the bizarre (I had someone I was dating claim she needed to keep dating her ex-boyfriend on the side because, although she had no sexual interest in him, he claimed to possess the same kind of look-at-me-I'm-eating-something-fascinating taste as she did).
At the same time, Jill will be writing about cars, of which she knows less than nothing. I'm going to expose her to all sorts of exotic machinery and probably make her drive on a racetrack, which will give her a chance to exceed sixty miles per hour for the first time in her life. By the time I'm done with her, she will be more qualified to write about cars than pretty much anyone from Motor Trend is.
We're like Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi. Or Jack White and Norah Jones. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.
Our pop-up website is just getting started, but please check us out at ItsJackAndJill.com. Thank you, as two men portraying fictional wine-cooler purveyors once told a television audience, for your support.