Grimgrains.com has always had a mascot, a loaf of dark bread named Kuropanman, a tribute to Anpanman (a hero with a red bean paste filled pastry for a head).
I only became very interested in cooking when moving to Japan in 2012, the site came online shortly after that.
I got some bamboo charcoal while in Japan and went a little cooking crazy... (I don't cook with it anymore).