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.