The Library of Congress will archive all public messages on Twitter. How was this announced? Twitter. The Twitter corporation is pleased.
The Library has the very first tweet, the Twitter equivalent of the Gutenberg Bible. It preserves Barack Obama’s presidential victory tweet as well as George Washington’s diary.
This month’s Washington, DC Blogger Meetup is Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 7 PM at a Dupont Circle watering hole (near Metro). RSVP by 4 PM Wednesday (requires free Meetup registration).
Founded in 2002, this Meetup provides opportunities for Metro DC area blog writers and readers to share experiences and tips, drink beer, socialize, drink beer, and plan collaborative blogging projects and other events. Did we mention that beer is available?
Spend a couple of hours with other DC bloggers this Wednesday. You can blog about the Nucear Security Summit afterwards.
Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.
Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.
Here’s a fresh serving of Blogs with Bite:
HotSauceDaily.com – Brian Meagher’s blog is “a guide to all things hot and spicy – reviews, recipes, BBQ and more.”
Honey.com – Website of the National Honey Board, “a federal research and promotion board under USDA oversight.” Consumer and honey industry information, recipes, research and more. NHB also has an online Honey Locator – search for honey produced from the nectar of specific flowers or in your area. Kosher honey? No problem.
Culinary Types – Engaging writing about food by T.W. Barritt.
Bricole – “An idiosyncratic and opinionated dictionary of Italian words related to food, with audio accompaniment” by Simona. The chronological entries are charming but there is an alphabetical index if you need one.
Seventh-day Adventist Dietetic Association — Adam and Eve were vegetarians; so are many Seventh Day Adventists. This is the website of SDA registered dietitians.
It’s All About the Bacon – It’s all about cured swine flesh. Photos and hyperlinks, with occasional recipes for dishes like Bacon Baklava with Pomegranate Molasses.
Heat Eat Review – Abi Jones reviews convenience foods for “ease of preparation, deliciousness, and bang for the buck.”
Global Crop Diversity Trust – Perhaps you have heard of the “doomsday vault” full of seeds in a remote part of Norway that will preserve food crop varieties in case of global disaster. These are the folks who run it. The seed bank and cryopreservation are not just tools for food security; they preserve living culture as well.
Taste of Beirut – If anyone has the right to make Lebanese Nachos, it’s Beirut-born Texan Joumana Accad. Her blog features “Lebanese recipes for home cooking.”
Canadian columnist Margaret Wente wrote a column called “Why are bloggers male?” You can read it on her blog.
Okay, it’s a newspaper website, but it’s online. Other online women wonder what universe Ms. Wente lives in, chief among them Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon‘s Broadsheet:
The logo for British chef Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution crusade is strikingly similar to that of Mark Bittman’s New York Times blog. Coincidence?
Mr. Oliver’s revolution will be televised, on the ABC Network.
The Bitten logo is likely a trademark of the New York Times; the JOFR name and logo are no doubt trademarked by someone-or-other. They are used here in the spirit of inquiry under the Fair Use Doctrine. Since both logos mimic Spanish Civil War, Soviet, and Vietnamese posters and echo Delacroix, lawyers should probably stand down anyway.
Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.
Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.
Here’s a fresh serving of Blogs with Bite:
Plate of the Day – Daily recipes of outstanding interest from New York’s Simon Dang.
Cooking With Kangaroo – “Kangaroo meat is used by some of the worlds best restaurants ….” Recipes from the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia.
18thC Cuisine – 18th century French cuisine “as a habitante in Nouvelle France may have cooked.” Carolyn Smith-Kizer re-enacts history in the kitchen and blogs about it, with recipes.
Kopiaste — Ivy Liacopoulou welcomes you into her kitchen for Greek, Cypriot, and international recipes.
Cooking Gadgets — Flatbed toaster. Adjustable rolling pin. Salad dressing mixer. Dry ice maker. All this plus Cyndi Lavin’s recipes.
Pizza Today – ”#1 Magazine of the Pizza Industry.”
Kumquat Recipes — Kumquat Growers, Inc. of Dade City, Florida provides 41 recipes and answers that age-old question, “What is a kumquat?”
The African Cookbook – Selected recipes from Bea Sandler’s 1993 compilation, via the University of Pennsylvania African Studies Department.
Food Moulds – The website of noted culinary historian and educator Ivan Day displays historic food molding devices, dishes made with them, and associated recipes. There are additional period recipes, sugar sculptures, and table settings from museum exhibitions curated by Mr. Day.
My Colombian Recipes – Columbian cooking; good notes about ingredients.
So Good – Jon Eick blogs about food marketing and the kind of foods that get “marketed.” Hilarity prevails.
Hungry For Change – ”Posts on genetic engineering, school nutrition, pesticides, urban farms, and more.”
Wednesday’s Washington, DC Blogger Meetup is canceled due to inclement weather. Like everything else in DC.
Next Meetup: Wednesday, March 10th. Details here.
Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.
Lift your spirits this Wednesday at the DC Food Blogger Happy Hour. This month’s venue is the AGAINN gastropub. More information and RSVP here.
DC Food Blogger Happy Hour
February 3, 2010, 6 to 8 PM
AGAINN
1099 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
202.639.9830
Near Metro Center and Chinatown/Gallery Place Metro stations.
Image (“Blogger Happy Hour at the Folies-Bergère, after Édouard Manet”) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not boring or obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.
Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here.
Here’s a fresh serving of Blogs with Bite:
Fancy Fast Food – “Yeah, It’s Still Bad for You — But See How Good It Can Look!”
Cicerone Certification Program – Education program to develop sommeliers for beer.
International Central Services Toaster Museum – “The world’s largest online toaster exhibition.” Jens Veerbeck’s beautifully designed site features US and European bread-browning devices and answers mankind’s eternal question, “What’s my old toaster worth?”
Chakali – Recipes, primarily from the state of Maharashtra in western India. In English and Marathi. Read more about Maharashtrian cuisine here and here. There are cooking videos (in several languages), too.
The Candy Wrapper Museum – ”… where wrappers are to be enjoyed as art, nostalgia, and humor.” In the name of paper preservation, the curator ate most of the perishable, corrosive candy bars, an astounding act of professional sacrifice.
White on Rice Couple – Todd Porter and Diane Cu cook, garden, write, photograph, and blog with élan. They offer readable tips on all these topics, plus a recipe index. Sierra and Dante help (they recommend the flax seed dog biscuits).
