Spread the Love II: this time it's personal

Hello all. My name is Cooper and I am the other half of this proverbial Love Sandwich.
Food has been a big part of my life since I was a little kid. My father was a chef for many years and that is actually how he came to meet and eventually marry my mother (they worked together in a restaurant in Chicago). They both love cooking and I grew up luckily being able to sample a lot of different kinds of food. (my momma makes a mean hungarian goulash and my dad's Feijoada(brasilian stew) is the best thing i've ever eaten!) I, alongside with Riley, am a photo major at Columbia College in downtown Chicago. Over the past year I have moved into my first off-campus apartment, and cooking has become a bigger part of my life. As I cook more,I've been trying to figure out a way to bring my passion for food and cooking into photography.

Originally I was going to do a series called "Dinner Tonight", where I would take before and after pics of my dinner every night for a year. I was going to document where and what I was eating, who I was eating with, and ultimately how much food I wasted in a year and how much money I spent. That idea eventually fizzled for various reasons, but one winter night when I was thinking about this project I ran into Riley in downtown Chicago. It was one of the colder nights and I assumed Riley was heading home, but to my suprise I found he was walking around trying to find homeless people to give sandwiches to. I found the simple generosity of Rileys action really awesome, almost as awesome as the simple creation of a ham and cheese sandwich. That night would be stuck in my head for weeks to come.

Riley and I had a few more conversations following that night and the result is what is here before you: Love Sandwich. Please read Rileys introduction beneath me for what I will call...a more coherant outline of our plans for this blog...but to me the idea is simple:

Life should be simple. 

And for some unfortunately life isn't simple because they don't know where there next meal is coming from.

Sandwiches are simple.

They require the basic of ingredients and costs, and can be distributed easily and safely.

Life+Sandwich= gloriousness.

so may 1st will be the first of what will be many Sandwich Love Days, and our hopes is that this idea will grow and spread into your lives and the lives of both Chicagoans and people that live in other major cities.

thanks and keep reading!

  

  -Cooper