Tuesday, March 8, 2011
THEY DRAW & COOK
Out of Kitchen–Onto Couch
A New York Times article
"But here’s what I don’t get: How is it that we are so eager to watch other people browning beef cubes on screen but so much less eager to brown them ourselves?"
GOOD Project: Redesign the Recipe.
I wish I had found this sooner...but it's neat to see that others are intrigued by a similar project.
http://www.good.is/post/project-redesign-the-recipe/
"People are doing less and less cooking. They're flopping down on the couch and watching other people cook on the Food Network.
Maybe that has something to do with the way recipes are written. Cooking should not be like changing a tire or fixing a hard drive. It’s supposed to be fun."
http://www.good.is/post/project-redesign-the-recipe/
"People are doing less and less cooking. They're flopping down on the couch and watching other people cook on the Food Network.
Maybe that has something to do with the way recipes are written. Cooking should not be like changing a tire or fixing a hard drive. It’s supposed to be fun."
Monday, February 28, 2011
FOOD Politics
Attempting to find a better angle for this project and more direct focus..I have begun reading various articles on food production, consumption and prep. One of my favorite articles has been, Food Convenience from The Economist. Some notable areas of the article are:
"For people who think cooking was the foundation of civilisation, the microwave...is the last enemy...The communion of eating together is easily broken by a device that liberates household denizens from waiting for mealtimes...The first great revolution in the history of food is in danger of being undone. The companionship of the camp fire, cooking pot and common table, which have helped to bond humans in collaborative living for at least 150,000 years, could be shattered."
"The amount of time spent cooking meals in Britain has fallen from 60 minutes a day in 1980 to 13 minutes a day in 2002."
"For people who think cooking was the foundation of civilisation, the microwave...is the last enemy...The communion of eating together is easily broken by a device that liberates household denizens from waiting for mealtimes...The first great revolution in the history of food is in danger of being undone. The companionship of the camp fire, cooking pot and common table, which have helped to bond humans in collaborative living for at least 150,000 years, could be shattered."
"The amount of time spent cooking meals in Britain has fallen from 60 minutes a day in 1980 to 13 minutes a day in 2002."
Monday, February 7, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Cooking
I have been trying to think of a way to incorporate cooking/cookbooks into my original path of 3D/paper cut outs and info graphics/mapping. I think I can finally channel everything into an interactive recipe website that offers video demonstrations (stop motion) and then an accompanying cookbook perhaps that has a 3D component. I made a stop motion cooking related video last semester and loved making it...I feel like it could leave a lot of fun opportunities to make interesting things happen on the web page.
Here is an online video cooking school to look off of....http://rouxbe.com/
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