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)…
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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.”
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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!
