
Cooking and Social Media
I am just now beginning to immerse myself into the online wealth of information and community there is surrounding cooking. I have always seen and heard about these tools before, but have never quite gotten how to use them, or how they would apply to me. On the other side, I have always tried to search around on Google for information about cooking, and have always ended up at the same few places: About.com cooking, Epicurious, FoodNetwork.com, etc. Not that these are bad places, but I am beginning to see that there is way more out there.
For starters, I am now finally actually using Twitter, rather than just having an account (http://www.twitter.com/dgabriner). I have started off by following a dozen or so people, but I could see how that list could expand rather rapidly. I am only following people who talk about cooking or food, rather than the boring tech people I used to follow. Already I have been blown away by how much information is out there, way too much for me to handle right now. However this is only the beginning, and I realize that I will soon have way more information, and need a nice way to process it all.
By scouring through everyone's tweets, I found a link to a baking book that is hosted on Google. I've known about the Google Library for some time, but never had a reason to use it. My library not only serves as a resource for others to look at what I am interested in, but is a tool for me to stay organized. I've added this first book, "Baking: From My Home to Yours", written by Dorie Greenspan, who worked a bit with Julia Child. It's got some amazing pictures of food, and the recipes look fairly simple. Can't wait to really dive into it.
