Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'Twitter'
Ordering in from Otto
As a New York based food blogger, I often make an effort to vary my posts so that those of you not in New York--which, I imagine, is actually the large majority of you--can feel like I'm speaking to you too. But this post, despite its New York specificity, has what I imagine is universal appeal--mostly because of a chef that I've loved and admired for as long as I've been interested in cooking. That chef is Mario Batali....
Pot Roast
When I think pot roast, I think Americana, I think 50s sitcoms and a beleaguered housewife who intones: "Oh, darn it, I burnt the pot roast!" It's not a dish that I ate much growing up, eating--as we did--most of our meals out. My first real pot roast memory, actually, comes from Atlanta. I ordered pot roast at one of my favorite, kitschy restaurants there--Agnes & Muriel's--and got very sick afterwards. I don't blame Agnes & Muriel's, but I did blame pot roast. I avoided it for years....
Porchetta
My Twitter followers are a fervent bunch. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was in the East Village, getting a haircut at Sei Tomoko (the best haircut deal in town), and thinking of going to Porchetta for lunch. "Ooooh!" they cheered, "you've gotta go!" "I'm jealous!" "Porchetta is AMAZING." Then, later, when I confessed that I skipped Porchetta for Hummus Place--where I had a lighter, healthier lunch--the Twitter crowd was not happy. "Boooo!" they booed. "Grrrr!" they growled. "Hiss!" they hissed. (Wow, this post sounds like a children's book.) I thought they'd unfollow me and spurn my name forever, but now they should be appeased: I went with Diana to Porchetta for lunch last week and now I get what got them so worked up....
Pim's Tweetcipe
For those who thought my Kimchi Fried Rice post used too many words, check out Pim's Tweetcipe version: "hot wok, oil sizzles, garlic+grnd pork to brown, toss kimchi, push aside, crack eggs, whip&in goes rice, TOSS+s&p+pinch sugr, grn onion DONE." I hate to admit it, but hers actually sounds better....
Tweeting vs. Blogging
On February 5th, 2004, I wrote my first Tweet. This was before Twitter, so it wasn't an actual Tweet, but it may as well have been: I'd just gotten the news that CNN was coming over to my apartment to do a segment about my Janet Jackson Breast Cupcakes. I wrote a post called BREAKING NEWS!!! that said: "CNN IS COMING OVER TOMORROW TO DO A STORY ON MY JANET JACKSON BREAST CUPCAKES! THIS IS NOT A JOKE! I REPEAT, CNN IS COMING OVER TOMORROW! THE STORY WILL AIR MONDAY NIGHT!" Granted, this was 32 characters too long to be an actual Tweet, but the spirit of it was certainly Twitteresque. In fact, the spirit of my blog, in general, before Twitter was so Twitter-like that now that Twitter's here, it's hard to know what's blogworthy and what best belongs on Twitter....
James Beard Award Nominees 2009
I never get the scoop on anything (I leave that to Eater, Grub Street, and The Feedbag) but just for the fun of it, I'm going to take advantage of following @beardfoundation on Twitter to be the first, perhaps, to announce the James Beard Award Nominees 2009 (these are like the Oscars of food)......
Almond Cake in a Food Processor
You know the author photos you see on the back flap of cookbooks? Imagine if one of them started talking to you. That's how I felt last week when I announced on Twitter that I was making Amanda Hesser's almond cake (one of my all-time favorite desserts, recipe here) and Amanda Hesser herself, who's a prolific Twitterer, Tweeted back: "I have a new way of doing the almond cake: mix butter, sugar, almond paste, eggs, sour cream & extract in a food processor."...
Twitter Updates, On The Side
You'll notice on the left side of the page, above our Flickr pool (which is so awesome, by the way; thanks to all of you uploading pictures!) you can now follow my Twitter feed. So now there's an extra reason to visit my page a thousand times a day: you can see what I'm doing EVERY SECOND of EVERY MOMENT of the day. What am I doing right now? I don't even know, I better check my Twitter feed. I'm all atwitter with Twittering. Thanks to Ben my old/new programmer for setting this up!...
Twitter & Plodt
Amanda Hesser e-mailed me recently to tell me about the new project she's working on called Plodt: "It gives you a way, using Twitter, to keep track of things in your life. I've been keeping track of (and rating) the food I cook and eat, and there are a handful of other people doing the same." Plodt plots a graph of various elements which you create and score by putting a word and number at the end of your Twitter post framed by two asterisks. For example, "I just had the best sandwich of my life! *food 10*." It makes much more sense when you follow other people who are doing it; so, to that end, here are the links to both my Twitter page and my Plodt page as well as Amanda Hesser's. Adam's Twitter Adam's Plodt Amanda's Twitter Amanda's Plodt Why don't you join us? Leave the links to your Plodt page in the comments....
