But We Would Love to Hear from You, and Will Publish the Best Thoughts, Feedback, and even Vitriol
Don't get upset, just email your comments...
I've heard from a couple of people in the days since launching this site, and the bloggers among them had the same pressing question: Where are the freakin' comments?
For a number of reasons, I decided not to enable comments on this site. First and foremost, my obsessive tendencies would have me checking them incessantly. Secondly, and more importantly, most bloggers I know won't admit this, but they hate comments. You spend a couple of hours chiseling away at an idea, throw it out there into the universe, and moments later some anonymous bomb thrower lobs a lit stick of dynamite your way. Of course, this can be diluted when enough devoted readers participate (a few Mad Men-obsessed sites ate up good chunks of my Mondays for the past several months),creating a virtual Algonquin Table of wit and wisdom.
If such a following develops here, maybe I'll hang out the comments shingle. Here's hoping that's sooner rather than later.
All of that said, I would actually love to hear your comments, and you can send them along to: andrew@toqueland.com. (There's a link in the left-hand column that'll be there all the time.) The most compelling will be published as posts of their own, with a response/comment from me. It's the format adopted by one of my favorite political bloggers, Andrew Sullivan, and it makes for a fun component of the mix on his site.
So, please write, and write often. I'll do my best to respond to all emails privately, and post the best ones publicly.
The Bocuse d'Or USA announces its semifinalists on Monday afternoon--I'll be back with some related posts then, as well as the chef profile promised the other day.
-Andrew
