Project: New Orleans Infographic Winners Announced. More Infographics on Good. Flow food. Picture Cook: A Graphic Cookbook. Tote bags, framed art, mugs, and pillows inspired by my book, Picture Cook.Illustration2013 Cover design, section divider pages & logo for DesignFile ebook series. I also designed a full page ad for DesignFile in Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine.Branding, Graphic Design2012 This project was conceived by the late, great Bill Moggridge in his last weeks as director at Cooper-Hewitt.
He wanted to make museum-themed headshots of all staff to hang in our common meeting area. Each staff person had to bring in their favorite object for their photo. He passed away about halfway through the project, and I never got to make a portrait of him. A super cute way to personalize your copy of Picture Cook, the bookplate is a 3 x 4'' sticker designed to be stuck on the inside front cover. Are recipes better as diagrams? » Graphic Sociology. Cheesecake Recipe Diagram | Keys Corner Trick or Treat This post has nothing to do with sociology.
It offers proof that I should probably learn to leave things alone sometimes. Recipes I have long had this hunch that recipes would be better depicted not as lists of ingredients stacked upon lists of instructions but as something more well-integrated. I have many times forgotten an ingredient or messed up an instruction, and I like to think that better graphic design might be able to get me out of this problem. So I found the recipe diagram above which is based on the Nassi-Shneiderman structured flowchart and thought it was worthy of consideration. But… I wasn’t thrilled with it. Here is my modification of the diagram, in grayscale even though I know it would look snazzy in color. Cheesecake Diagram I still have difficulties with this diagram – where are the instructions? What needs work References John. (2005) Key’s Corner Blog. Recipes: What's Their Job, Anyway? | Pastry Chef Online. How recipes should look: streamlined, chronological, minimal. Poor recipes these days are forced to be so much more.
Click photo for attribution to StarSammy Y’all know how I feel about recipes. I think they are limiting. That they make folks think that “this is the only way to make this Thing.” And that’s where the problem comes in: the rules. So now, when One wants to make a special meal for a loved one, or just a “regular” meal on a weeknight, they don’t necessarily understand all the hows and whys of cooking. Having the desire to cook without having the know-how to back it up is a Frustrating place to be. Regardless, once One gets One’s Hands on a recipe, what is that recipe’s job?
I Ventured Forth onto facebook and twitter to ask this very specific question: What, if any, responsibility does a recipe have to actually teach you to cook/bake? If you don’t know what you are doing, a recipe has a lot of responsibility! Oh, poor recipe. So, that’s what I say to you. www.good.is/posts/submission-redesign-the-recipe/ Recipe-formats. MealMaster MealMaster MealMaster is a piece of database software for collecting recipes. Allows searching, printing and creating of shopping lists as some of it's key features.
The software allows import and export of recipes. Have located some publishings of people's recipes in "Meal-Master format". e.g. Recipe Markup Language It was (formerly known as DESSERT -- Document Encoding and Structuring Specification for Electronic Recipe Transfer) is an XML-based format for marking up recipes. Specification The format provides detailed markup for defining ingredients, which facilitates automated conversions from one type of measurement to another. There are some software programs that read and write the RecipeML format. This archive contains 10,000 recipes in Recipe Markup Language RxOL RxOL uses a postfix notation to represent recipes. REML: The Recipe Exchange Markup Language REML on Sourceforge RecipeBook XML Eat Drink Feel Good Markup Language Yum!
Yum! RecipeBook XML - An XML markup language for sharing recipes electronically. RecipeBook XML is a markup language used to write recipes and cookbooks. It is simple and easy to learn, but offers some powerful features. Once a recipe is written in RecipeBook XML it can be reproduced in HTML, PDF, Rich Text formats all from the same source document. The primary goal of RecipeBook XML is to allow people to create, store and share recipes in a variety of electronic formats. Consideration is also given to computer manipulation of the data contained within the recipes. For Authors An introductory tutorial for RecipeBook XML authors A step-by-step guide to using RecipeBook XML with a GUI editor Converting RecipeBook XML to HTML, PDF and Rich Text Sample recipes written in RecipeBook XML For Geeks The RecipeBook XML Document Type Definition (DTD) CSS, XSL and XSL-FO style sheets for RecipeBook XML Extracting data from RecipeBook XML recipes For Developers This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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By the Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine Published in September 2004 to replace the original "The Best Recipe", "The New Best Recipe" includes more than 1,000 recipes from Cook's Illustrated magazine. By Culinary Institute of America This is one of the best cooking school textbooks around. Alton Brown's Gear for Your Kitchen by Alton Brown This book is basically Alton Brown's opinions on kitchen equipment and gadgets. About CfE FAQ's. Simple Tiramisu. Tiramisu is recently become an extremely popular Italian dessert that is now served in virtually every Italian restaurant. Traditionally served in the afternoon as a "boost", tiramisu contains both caffeine and alcohol in a creamy cheese mixture served in layers. Tiramisu can be complex (featuring layering of different flavors and textures) or simplistic. This recipe does not use any eggs (cooked or raw) and provides the simplest blend of ingredients to form a fast and tasty basic tiramisu.
First, start by assembling the ingredients. We'll need one pound of mascarpone cheese, a cup of heavy whipping cream, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 3 tablespoons rum (brandy also works well), ~20 lady's fingers (a light, oblong italian cookie with powdered sugar on one side), cocoa powder, a double shot (about 2 to 3 ounces) of espresso, 1/2 cup of prepared coffee, and shavings of unsweetened dark chocolate to top (1 oz. should do).
Chill whipping cream and bowl. Mix coffee and espresso and chill. Recipes, Food Photos & Discussion at Open Source Food. Salmon Quesadillas. You may have seen these in the produce section of the grocery store and thought “NO WAY”! Well guess what? They’re delicious! These fiddlehead ferns are also very nutritious. What ever you do, don’t just pop one in your mouth raw. They need to get cooked first! Once cooked, you can then eat them hot or cold, alone, or in soups, salads, or stews. Step 1. Fill a bowl with cold water and submerge the fiddleheads. (I stuck them in a colander first and then put the whole colander in the bowl of water.)
Lift the fiddleheads out of the sink and let them drain. With a paring knife trim off the end. Step 2. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP. Put the fiddleheads in a pot and cover them completely with cold water. As they come to a boil they will float to the surface. Boil them for 6-8 minutes. Step 3. Drain the fiddleheads in a colander. Heat 1 Tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan over medium- high and add one clove of crushed garlic… …. and the fiddleheads. Sauté for approximately 1 minute. …a sprinkle of salt… Cookthink | Feel smarter in the kitchen. Recipe Software - 250,000+ Recipes | BigOven. Recipe. Recipes.