I discovered that using Blogger outside the Blogger platform — that is, on this site, not Blogger’s — was more hassle than it was worth, and switched the blog over to WordPress, which I’m still learning. I will ultimately have much more control of things this way, and the blog should be easier and more enjoyable to read as a result, but it might take me a while to get it there. Thanks for your patience!

I do have to ask you to do one thing, however. For those of you who have subscribed by a feed, you need to change the feed address. The new address is

http://feeds.feedburner.com/breakawaycook

You could also just click on “subscribe by RSS,” above right.

My deepest apologies for the inconvenience. For those of you subscribed by email, no action on your part should be necessary.

And while I’m at it: if there’s anything you’d like to see changed, or covered, or expounded upon, or anything at all, please let me know! WP has a much easier-to-use comment section, so I’m hoping that that encourages all of you to speak up more often! Thanks.

My friend Brady has been slaving all day on integrating this blog into the main breakawaycook.com site. It’s nice to extricate myself from the Blogger look, and to bring it all into the main site. Your feedback is hugely appreciated! Thanks.

Welcome to the all-new breakaway blog! I’ve ended my association with Yahoo. It’s now time to pop some bubbly and finally get cranking.

After a long and exhausting search for the best way to incorporate a blog into my website, it finally dawned on me: as they say in Japanese, shimpuru izu besuto (simple is best). So here it is, in good old Blogger. No endless screwing around with code, no techie headaches . . . all the more time to experiment with global flavor blasts.

I’ll be writing regularly, so I hope breakaway cooks the world over will stick around and become part of whatever this thing becomes.