Happy birthday, Chocolate & Zucchini!
The lovely Clotilde, with whom I have had the pleasure to spend time in London and in Paris, today celebrates the third birthday of her blog. When she started Chocolate & Zucchini, she was an IT project manager. Now, she’s a full-time food writer for magazines and newspapers worldwide, with her own cookbook coming out from a US publisher next year. I love Clotilde’s blog, and I love how she has used it to make her life into something extraordinary.
A little over three years ago, over a dinner of shabu-shabu, I mentioned to Maxence that I was considering starting a food blog. “I think you should go for it,” he said. “But it’s going to take up a lot of my time, and I worry that I might tire of it after the honeymoon phase,” I replied. “I think you should go for it,” he said. A few days later, after a few evenings spent playing around with blogging tools and html templates, Chocolate & Zucchini was born.
Starting the blog was a small, trivial decision to make, but it is one that changed my life. It may sound a bit grandiose when I put it this way, and yet how else could I put it? How I think of myself, how I picture my future, what occupies my thoughts and my work hours, whom I get to meet and interact with, what I reply when people ask “So, what do you do?” (in French: “Et tu fais quoi dans la vie?”) — all of these elements have gradually shifted, making me happier by the day. This is all thanks to C&Z and thanks to you, so thank you.