May 2009
14 posts
April 2009
22 posts
Food.com Recipe Search →
As Lifehacker describes it, “Food.com Searches Pretty Much Every Recipe Site at Once”:
Not only does it pull basic recipe links and descriptions from all those third-party sites, but it grabs the full ingredient lists, pictures, user ratings, and preparation/serving instructions, then categorizes them for search refining. So if you’re looking for a Vietnamese dish to whip up...
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Recipes on Twitter (the NYT is doing it wrong)
The previous post hinted at this, but I think the NYT’s twitter recipe challenge goes in exactly the wrong direction. They challenge their readers to compact a complex recipe into a type of code that can be tweeted as modeled by @chef140, @cookbook, and @tinyrecipes.
Twitter recipes should not be an exercise in deciphering clues and a complex code. Rather, the constraint of 140 characters...
140-character recipes
I love Twitter recipes because they’re inspirational: you think you don’t have time to cook, or maybe you don’t know how? Well, how hard could it be to follow 140 characters’ worth of directions?
Plus they challenge recipe-creators to make simple foods — so often the best foods, especially as summer approaches and fresh produce is abundant. You want to do as little...
Saveur: Clever By Half →
leilacohan:
Saveur shows how to cut batches cherry tomatoes in half all at once! Brilliant!
