My name is Ivan Cauldwell, I grew up in a house that ate mostly international food. My parents both studied abroad (Mom in Hungary, Dad in Japan) and to this day i have never known my dad to cook food from the same country two days in a row, most of the time not from the same continent. This gave me a great application for food, and given the fact that I really like to eat, when I got depressed last year food cheered me up... It also fattened me up... I gained a little more than fifty pounds since last year, and now that I'm feeling better I wanted to lose some weight. A big problem with a lot of "cool" diets is that they cut out all the fun things... Like bacon... who wants to live in a world where they cant eat bacon? I know I don't. I am poor, so all of my recipes will be cheap, easy, and I hope you think they're delicious!