About
Hi! I'm Sarita. I'm a recent college engineering graduate with a passion for creativity and discovery. I wanted to share my experiences with you all on this blog. The two main focuses of this blog are the flour and flâneuse that help shape who I am and who I want to become.
FLOUR | I've been a home baker for almost 15 years. Besides baking as a young child with my mum or sister, the first real event for me that formed an obsession with baking was when my brother bought my mum the Bouchon Bakery cookbook by Thomas Keller. I remember flipping through the pages, bookmarking so many recipes and techniques I wanted to try. This book was where I made my first attempt at macarons, and utterly failed. Little did I know then that it would be the first of many macaron failures... but that's a story for another day. The recipe I made the most from this book was the Palet d'Or, a multi-layered chocolate cake consisting of devil's food cake, a chocolate mousse, and a chocolate glaze on top. Thinking back, it is slightly humorous to imagine my 9- to 10-year-old self obsessing over weighing my ingredients and trying to be "precise." I remember that every time I made the chocolate mousse I would never combine it properly; there would always be flakes of chocolate... an added texture bonus if you ask me. But anyways, the point here is that this is when my obsession started. 15 years later, baking is simply a part of me, often second nature. I love baking that brings smiles to people's faces. I'm still learning though, and in this blog be prepared to see many of my failures, but hopefully growth and some successes!
FLÂNEUSE | You may have heard of the word flâneur before, which describes an "ambivalent figure [a man]... representing the ability to wander detached from society, for an entertainment from the observation of the urban life." The term is French masculine, and flâneuse has the same meaning, just in a feminine form. I find that this word describes my aim for when I travel. I am obsessed with nature and vast landscapes, and once I get to the cities, I don't long for an exact planned itinerary. I love the art of the wander, observation, seeing how locals live their lives. I've always been obsessed with the word "sonder," the realization that everyone's life is just as complex as your own. When I'm in a new place, I want to embrace my inner flâneuse and truly find the "feeling" of the place I am in. In this blog I hope to write some examples of how I do this, so that maybe others are inspired to do the same. I love that when I look back on the places I've been, I don't really remember the things I saw or even the food I ate (crazy for me to say), but instead it's the feeling of being there. I can search in my memories and find that feeling, and crave to feel it again.