Robyn Eckhardt writes: Last week I was contacted by a New York University student about her thesis project. My Food Valentine is a collective storytelling art project in which participants express their feelings for food in the form of love letters. The project's creator describes her effort as...an attempt to explore deeper, emotional connections people have with food, but in a fun way,and adds that she developed the project...as I felt the need to tell stories and share food-related memories that formed a critical part of my identity. Food is an important part of who I am. And an exercise of writing a letter to the food makes me go back and think why my favorite food is my favorite - and ...