On our WordPress blog we have two ways to organize our posts: tagging and categories. WordPress has these two tools for different reasons and to help make our blog better I did some research into both tagging and categories. I’m…
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Meal-making for a dairy allergy
I live with a roommate who is allergic to all forms of dairy. Because we make “community” food/meals for everyone who lives at our house, we need to make accommodations for his allergy in all our meals. I had to…
Analysis of the first American written/published cookbook
It is the first known cookbook written by an American, for Americans, and the first cookbook to use decidedly “American” ingredients. Before this cookbook was published, people in the American Colonies used cookbooks which were both written and published in Great Britain. American…
Living with an Autoimmune Disease
As most of my friends know, I have been recently diagnosed with an autoimmune disease — Hashimoto’s. I have spent the past few weeks looking at food blogs dedicated to making life easier for those with my illness. I was…
Mapping the World through Food
Food: An Atlas is a great example of how contemporary publishing projects can work. A UC-Berkeley lecturer and cartographer put out a call for maps from all of the world and then launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of the book. You can download the whole PDF at the Guerrilla Cartography website. It contains a lot of terrific information design that should be of interest to people interested in technical communication as well food.
Mission Possible: A Neighborhood Atlas
Also check out “Mission Possible: A Neighborhood Atlas,” another project of Jensen’s—more awesome information design and inspiration.
The Kitchn–Helping cooks live happier, healthier lives in the kitchen
The Kitchn is a daily web magazine that offers tips, recipes, kitchen tours, reviews & design ideas. Since they are a magazine, they do not accept posts from others; however, they love to hear from readers/bloggers who would like to share…
Small Blog for Small Kitchen
SmallKitchenChronicles.com is a small kitchen website ran by Christina Lazarakis. This website it very small simple and well put together. One of the first tabs on the website introduces the reader to the creator Christina, giving her full bio. There…
The art of Illustrations
There was a time in the past when I could have almost call myself as a cookbook hoarder. I did not only purchased cookbooks only because of the exciting new recipes, I did it sometimes purely based on the beautiful…
Accuracy is Important
In any field you go into, there are going to be those small issues that no one even thinks about until the less experienced start to make their way in. The people at Bon Appetit have compiled a list…
Cookie Cutter
The term cookie cutter has become synonymous with sameness and a lack of originality. While we spend most of our time within a cookbook, it would be remiss to forget that the framing of our recipes can be just as important…