About Me

Here is a blurry picture of me at a party in my 50's dress serving ice cream and feeling incredibly cool.

 About me’s are hard to do. There are a good number of things to say about myself that are not relevant at all. Like I obsessively know the words to all broadways songs. For real. But don’t leave yet because that’s not what this blog is about. Officially, it is a blog about international cuisine and immigrant culture in Lexington, Kentucky. Which we do actually have. In reality, it is my 200-hour mentoring project which I am sorta totally excited about. It’s going to be an ah-mazing compilation of me attempting to cook, my witty remarks and then people who can actually cook and come up with witty things to say. It’s gonna be fun.

Here is some background (which is not necessary to know but I want to tell you):

·      My name is Sophia Whitman Sandmeyer.

·      This blog would probably be going nowhere fast without the guidance and help of my mentor, John Foster. He is even letting me mooch off of his connections. And I am incredibly grateful.

·      I got the name for this blog from my friend Lukas. He also helped me named a cat I saw on the side of the road. (Liza for a girl and Salvador Dali for a boy.)

·      I am a high school senior and I decided it would be fun to slowly kill myself this year so I’m taking six AP classes. So far, Miracle Max would say I am only partly dead. I’ll keep you updated.

·      My sophomore year I spent in Neu-Anspach, Germany where I learned German, seven phrases in French, and how to say potato in Spanish.

·      I like to cook but mostly I love to eat. This blog is pretty much a means to an end to fill my stomach. I picked international food because I like it. A lot. And by it, I mean all food except for brains. (That story later.)

·      If I had to describe myself it would be classy and sassy. For a couple reasons. First, and most importantly, they rhyme. Second, over three people have called me classy, so it must be true. And third, I aspire to be sassy but right now I am stuck with sasssy’s awkward wannabe cousin that is not nearly as cool. I'm working on it.

·      This is a warning: I read a lot of books-I like the classics. I watch even more TV-I’m slightly addicted to it all. I may reference them. And most likely in a way that only I understand. I apologize.