Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2010
I have a list of culinary exhibits on the web that have been put together by various cultural institutions. For example, the Smithsonian has an exhibit called Key Ingredients: America by Food. It’s both an online and physical exhibit, and as one of the Museums on Main Street projects, it involves partnership between State Humanities [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2009
I was reading Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, and I thought it would be funny to post that poem in its entirety, with no exposition, because of the line “my vegetable love”. But that awesome line is only one of about 4 dozen in the poem, and none of the rest lend themselves to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2009
Pomological watercolors. That’s what the handout says. I picked it up at the National Agricultural Library table at the FLICC Job Fair this summer. In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, the newly formed Pomology Division of the USDA hired artists to help document fruits bearing species from the American Flora. Now a collection [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2009
watched two fun documentaries.
The Natural History of the Chicken, from PBS & Nat’l Geographic’s Science of Speed Eating
i tend to like things that are titled “natural history of______”. not sure exactly why, but in this instance there were all sorts of diverting chicken related vignettes that spanned from agribusiness to small farms to household pets. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2009
Ya, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is giving a talk on home canning at the Tacony branch of the Philadelphia Free Library on Wednesday, September 2nd at 6:30 pm. So I have a suggestion for you. Spend the evening in Northeast Philly.
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Possible Agenda:
Stop at Jack’s Place on Hegerman Ave. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2009
“Managing food in the library is always a potential challenge, but it is a commitment that students have asked the Libraries to make, and so far it has not been a problem.” Okay NCSU, so, launching a creamery in your library run by your food science program has been a successful (as well as awesome) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2009
I recently stumbled on mathematician Douglas Baldwin’s wonderfully detailed guide to sous vide. French for under vaccum, sous vide is a technique of cooking food sealed in bags without oxygen at relatively low temperatures and long cook times. Baldwin’s site is awesome; it features a bit about his professional work in computer science and math, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2008
2008 San Francisco Michelin Star Restaurants in Google Earth
Here is a map I created. Do let me know what you think of it, won’t you? I’d like to know how to improve it (include more information, change formatting, etc.). Also, I’d like suggestions for what other food related maps would be useful or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 19th, 2008
I’m a little obsessed with data visualization. I’ve been trying to learn about collecting, formating and displaying data recently, after exploring the beautiful and communicative visuals created on Many Eyes. Below is a visualization I created using data on organic farming from the US Department of Agriculture.
I came across a table ranking the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2008
food studies lectures on itunes u from Jason Young on Vimeo.
iTunes U has sooo much stuff! Over the past couple years, I’ve been really jazzed about online learning. Some of the institutions and corporations I respect most, from the New York Public Library and Google, the Smithsonian and MIT, are making information available [...]