Gera from SweetsFoods.com Interview

Last week, I had a great opportunity to interview my friend Gera from SweetsFood.com. He shared his passion in food, Sweets Foods blog and his experience when he was a kid.

Well, I hope you enjoy this interview and I look forward reading your comments.

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Q: I read about you in your Blogger profile that you always been interested in food since you were a kid. Can you tell us more about it? Any fun experience in food when you were a kid? And what’s the first food you tried to cook?

Gera

Gera: I’ve been always interested in food because for me it was and, today, it’s still a pleasure visiting food stores / supermarkets.

As you guess I spend lot of time there, sometimes more than the necessary. As a sportsman frequently I’ve been attracted by the nutrition and healthy aspects behind the yummy dishes. I tend to eat relatively slow so I can relish more the food, now I know it’s better for the digestion.

A funny experience was in a camping (till today love outdoors) when I tried to make fried fish. The oil was very hot and at that moment it began raining, some drops entered and made little sparks, but the worst was that I tried to extinguish them with more water…a fire explosion of several meters! Now I know that hot oil and water aren’t a good combination

Me: I just know that hot oil and water is not a good combination (will never try, could be dangerous). But that was fun really fun Gera.

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Q: Also from your profile, you’re from Uruguay.
Is there any special food from Uruguay that you can share with us, that anybody should taste it when they’re visiting Uruguay? Or Special food that only served in certain occasion or celebration in Uruguay?

Gera: Uruguay is the beef kingdom; it’s a must to eat good beef cuts in the typical parrilladas. The traditional Uruguayan cuisine has one of the largest diversity of the world in beef dishes and the parrillada (beef barbecued with firewood, not coal) is one of them.

As the Uruguayan’s palate has its origin in Europe and now also, it’s mixed with other cuisines like Latin American, American, Japanese, and Chinese cuisine, only to name a few. We’re a country of immigrants and all of them supplied us different dishes and styles of cooking.

For special occasions or celebrations in Uruguay, we’ve similar rituals like Spain, Italy, France, UK and Germany. Hence if you come here, the variety of dishes is huge.

Me: After asking this question, I was a bit curious to Uruguay. so I Google it and found this wonderful building

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The Solis Theatre

Solis Theater (Teatro Solís) the Uruguay’s oldest theatre.

and these look delicious dishes

Milanesa

According to the source, it can be made with cow meat , chicken, or fish meat. .

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Q: Now, talking about Sweets Foods. What drive you to make SweetsFoods.com? What’s your main purpose?

Gera: I like the history, the ingredients and really the living about food experiences all over the world.
Hence, I want to share my passion with everyone.

I also enjoy the social media interacting of blogging and the sociological-psychological aspects behind the new phenomenon called the Web 2.0.

The other important theme for me are health & fitness articles most on food basis but not exclusively, based in my own experience as a sport lover & adventure race runner.

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Q: Still about Sweets Foods. what’s behind the name SweetsFoods.com? do you have certain meaning with the name?. and Actually I mistyped it several times with SweetFoods (without “s”)

Gera: As you know I like sweets in other word desserts, and I wanted that this point was reflected on the name of my blog.

I know that this extra (s) in the middle led to confusion but it was a requirement of Google because the name without the “s”, was taken. Anyway, sweets = desserts, a good way to register this name

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Q: We have entered in 2010. Sure (maybe) everybody have a new hope (or maybe a plan). So, What’s your goal you want to achieve in 2010 (that you might have missed in 2009)?

Gera: I need improving my social networking as well as technical aspects of the blog and my writing too.

My goals are to go on increasing the blog as much as possible and to continue adding more sections already planed to get it more interactive. I’m satisfied for the continual growing of the same but it can be improved always to reach a wider audience!.

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Your feedback is really welcomed.