About Me

I am Burcu, classic but real truth, I have always loved food. But up until my mid-twentieths, I limited my self most of the time from really enjoying the food in its every bite. Why is that? I guess because I was thinking it is cool to eat a lot of stuff actually not good for my body and my weight/physical appearance were more important than having the pleasure and love affair with food in its every bite. Than something happened, I moved to Bay Area (I love you Oakland! I love you Berkeley!), for 1.5 years and my life began to rapidly changed. I was changing every other day in every way and food/diet was a big part of it. Most of my time in Bay Area I live with host families, which was a blessing of an experience. During my stay with my host families, I started to cook and bake for them on certain days of the week. Every time when I cooked something, I found I would get so excited to get their response, their reflections, their feelings about the food that I made. Slowly, I realized, how much I enjoyed cooking, as well as learning more about cooking, baking, nutrients, healthier choices, trying different foods and so on..

While all this happening, I also found the man of my life! He is the one that supports me to follow my passion about cooking, baking, creating new foods, making soul foods that are full of art. Plus it’s a win for him because he gets to try all the dishes. Shhh don’t let him know I know. Actually He doesn’t eat a whole lot. I eat way more than him (he made me write this part lol) Guess why?? Because “I LOVE FOOD”. So now I am a person that gets all the spices in the world at least all the ones I can fit in our home and I try them. ………? I am not a perfect cook, at least not in the professional world 🙂 but I am a passionate cook.  I love learning and experimenting with cooking and how to make every bite of the food that I make delicious and unforgettable for people.

Just to let you know, this is not just a food blog, this is my sacred place that I document my life and I will experiment a lot. So, there would be days, I will just share what I experiment, and maybe we would do it together. In any ways,  judgements are out of the room, when you read this blog.

Lastly, I just love blogs. Any type of blogs related with cooking, designing, travel, life… So if you are also one of those people, who love blogs, get your hot, cold, spicy or whatever drinks you like and enjoy with “bonjourburcu.com”. Maybe, my life and food will give you different feelings and inspirations because there are lot of people out there give me inspirations and motivations about my dreams every single day with what they share. Therefore, never give up to try new foods and reading new people’s life to get more inspiration!

Welcome to my world, still building a piece of art every day.