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Email: Feel free to contact me at uy.natalie@gmail.com
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About Obsessive Cooking Disorder:
Obsessive Cooking Disorder (lovingly known as OCD) was originally a random collection of recipes for my record keeping. I started this food blog as a Stanford undergraduate who needed to cook food so I wouldn't starve (or go broke dining out in Palo Alto) during my summer research months. I kept forgetting how I cooked/baked/concocted X, so I started OCD to record my culinary experiments.
My foodblogging endeavors really grew in medical school, once there was no more cafeteria/dorm food. I've always loving baking, but found I couldn't live on cookies / brownies alone, and thus expanded the range of recipes.
My work on OCD has grown to include inventing recipes, food photography, finding the history/science/random facts about food, and writing stories. I miraculously kept foodblogging up in medical school, and now residency - so recipes are geared toward busy people :)
My work on OCD has grown to include inventing recipes, food photography, finding the history/science/random facts about food, and writing stories. I miraculously kept foodblogging up in medical school, and now residency - so recipes are geared toward busy people :)
FAQs:
Are you a real chef/did you go to culinary school?
Nope, I'm just a
Disclaimer: This is a personal blog with my thoughts / musing on life. I do not claim to give professional medical advice on this blog and any patient identifiers are removed / altered for privacy.
Are you a real doctor?
Yes, that's my regular wonderful 80 hrs a week job. I'm currently an Internal Medicine resident at Yale New Haven Hospital (Yale University) and I love it.
How did you make your blog?
I use Google's blogger. Yes, it's not the norm in blogging vs WordPress, and it takes a little customizing with coding, but it's free (ie what a poor college student/med student / resident could afford) and easy to post.
How do you take your pictures/make your artwork?
For the the photos, I've used a variety of cameras over the years. Some are from an iphone but most recipe shots are my Nikon D5100 DSLR. I got this as a Costco set in high school in 2008 and still use it. I used the 2 zoom lenses included in the kit (predominantly the 55-300, rarely 18-55). In Dec 2016, I finally upgraded so I now also have 2 prime lenses (Nikon 50mm f/1.8G and 85mm lens f/1.8G).
I edit the photos using Apple's Photos and Photoshop CS6, predominantly for color and lighting. Food styling is all practice, and I take usually 30 pictures for every recipe shoot. I take all my pictures with natural light and use random items from my closet / cabinets as props.
My artwork/doodles are drawn by hand and colored in Photoshop CS6 with a Wacom Bamboo tablet. I used to draw for every recipe, but I no longer keep them up due to time constraints from my real life job.
Do you work with companies/do sponsored posts? Do you accept guest posts from other bloggers?
At the moment, this blog is a fun hobby; while I love watching it grow, marketing and promotions is never my primary goal (no way am I ever going to quit my day job - I love medicine too much!).
For collaborations, read more here (Work with Me) and email me at uy.natalie@gmail.com if you're interested. Since Obsessive Cooking Disorder is personal place to keep my journaling and doodles, I do not accept guest posts.
How do you have time to cook and do medicine and volunteer and draw and exercise and...?
Short answer: I don't know.
Long answer: I don't know. If you love something (and I do LOVE eating) you find the time for it. Life's a marathon, not a sprint!
If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff -- Ratatouille (Pixar)
