My Culinary Journey Through Life
It has been 13 months since my life completely changed for ever. I was wheeled into an operating room. I had 6 small incisions cut into my body, had probes inserted and they cut away at my stomach making a small egg sized pouch and re-routing my intestines. This, folks, is gastric bypass surgery. Prior …
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For years, I have chased the notion of working my "dream job". However, I never once could tell you what that was. Was it to be a Paramedic? An Entrepreneur? I have flirted with the idea of becoming a chef, web programmer, a YouTube personality, I have tried desperately to become internet famous, I have …
It is a Syracuse University institution. Ask anyone around this town and they have either have a story about Varsity Pizza or at the very least know what it is and where it is. Elli Darmoyslis has been making piza at Varsity for 50 years. Varsity is one of those places you need to not judge …
1 year, 100 pounds. 5 pants sizes, 3 t-shirt sizes, and surprisingly 1 shoe size. 2 1/2 weeks shy of the 1 year anniversary of my Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgery (also coincidently it has also been 1 year in the new house). For those unfamiliar with the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgery, it is basically when …
