About
My name is Eric and I am learning how to cook. I created this blog to track my progress as I learn the art of cooking, go through many trials an tribulations and gain the experience necessary to not only call myself a good cook but hopefully some day a great cook.
The term “Agoge” as explained by Wikipedia refers to “the rigorous education and training regime for all male Spartan citizens”. Sparta was known as a warrior state during it’s time that produced the best of the best warriors. While “it encouraged conformity and the importance of the Spartan state over one’s personal interest” to generate the future elites of Sparta, I my aim is to create food and to cook as a form of expression and contribution to family and friends, and community.
No one in history has ever achieved great success on their own and I don’t expect to be any exception with the task I have taken, to be come a culinary artist in my own way.
I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, the son of two loving parents and a brother to an amazing sister. I am blessed with with an extended family that is both close and far in geographic distance and and who is diverse in culture and individuality. I am half Honduran and half White-American, proud of my heritage and my cultural identities. I attended Babson College, an entreprenuerially focused institution of higher-learning and graduated with a degree in business. I now work for an advertising technology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts and live in Boston’s South End, a neighborhood known for both it’s cultural and culinary diversity.
Thank you for visiting my site, a live documented journey I hope others enjoy reading, learning from and contributing to.
