RoobiFood

My name is Jennifer and I am an online marketing professional and aspiring copywriter living near Seattle, WA.

Living in Seattle, I am surrounded by so many great places to eat. The Seattle food scene is eclectic, full of culture, and bursting with personality. There’s only one problem: I don’t yet know how to eat like a Seattleite. You see, I’m from West Virginia. I was born in Maryland and lived my entire life in the area that is West Virginia/Maryland/Virginia/Washington DC. I have a hard enough time trying to explain to people around here that West Virginia is a state, let alone trying to explain to them why I’ve never eaten the food they’re eating.

One day, while at the first job that I landed upon moving to Seattle, a colleague and I discussed going somewhere to eat on our lunch break. To be considerate of my tastes, he offered me three seemingly normal choices: sushi, Thai, or Indian. It was then that it hit me just how different I am from the people in this area. It was difficult to do, but I had to awkwardly admit that I had never eaten any of those types of food. To this day, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a face contort in such a look of confusion. In that moment, I felt as though he was looking at me like I was an alien from some distant planet.

I have now lived in Seattle for almost two years, and I am slowly but surely learning to broaden my culinary horizons. After all, since I truly am a food lover, taking on the task of learning the Seattle food scene has been a wonderful experience. Moving from a town with one Chinese restaurant to a city with a different Asian cuisine on every corner has been an eye-opener. I have learned to appreciate (and adore) Thai food, among others. I have become an absolute Starbucks addict and, like many other Seattleites, have a drink order whose number of syllables could rival those of a spelling bee word. Also, this summer I plan on making a concerted effort to experience seafood of the Northwest and resist my urge to bring my can of Old Bay with me to seafood restaurants. (Anyone from my area knows what I mean and is laughing… but seriously… I really do that.)

In the meantime, I’m still a small town girl with small town tastes. There is still a large place in my heart for crab cakes like you’d find on the Maryland shore, pepperoni rolls like you’d find in West Virginia, and biscuits & sausage gravy like you’d find in my mom’s kitchen. True to my roots, I plan on finding good food at great prices… the kind of food that reminds me of home. Wish me luck!