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I was fortunate enough to meet the author of eat-tweet, Maureen Evans, known on twitter as @cookbook. Maureen is a fellow Canadian originally from British-Columbia and currently lives in in the UK with her partner Blaine Cook, the original programmer of Twitter. She has spent years traveling the world sampling food and tweeting about it.
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Me, Maureen, and her book.
Eat-tweet is one of the coolest concepts I have come across on Twitter. As a fellow foodsy, ex chef, and father, @cookbook has given me the ability to find quick, easy, and tasty meals to satisfy my tastes buds on a daily basis. I admire the passion and enthusiasm @cookbook has put in over the years. If only I had thought of it first …
So what exactly is eat-tweet? For over three years now @cookbook has been tweeting 140 character recipes on Twitter, and for any one who uses Twitter, you know how difficult 140 characters can be! She has managed to amass over 30 000 followers, yes 30 000! Not only has she managed to create a micro community of foodies on Twitter she recently published a cookbook containing over 1000 of her tweeted recipes entitled eat-tweet.
You may be wondering how she managed to tweet recipes in only 140 characters, well, she created her own dictionary of easy to understand short terms. Remember when you were in high school and you had to read A Clockwork Orange and your teacher had to give you an accompanying dictionary to understand the fictional language Anthony Burgess crafted for the novel? Well the eat-tweet dictionary is nothing like that. It’s very easy to understand but blew me away at how in depth it was, hence the Clockwork Orange analogy.
Over the past week I have been sampling from her book and here are a few I really like, plus a couple from her twitter feed:
Tourtiere: Quebec. Bake,mash lrg tater; simmr~h+2lb grndpork/mincd onion&garlc/?c h2o/½t cinn&pep/¼t clove. Fill,vent dblpieshell; 50m@350F.
Soupe au Pain et au Chou: Quebec. Saute onion&carrot&celery/3T oil. Simmr15m+4c stock&cabbage/2c crouton/2T tompaste/s+p. Top w parm&parsly.
Cold Avocado Soup: Puree1½avocado/½shallot/peeldcuke/3c buttrmilk/s+p; chill. Top w pulse-blended ½avocado&shallot/tom/2T lime&yogurt&basil.
Cheddar Dumplings: cut c flour/6T suet or buttr/4T aged cheddar/T chives/t Dijon/s+p; mix+4T h2o. Roll~8balls; tuck into simmering stew~30m.
And my favorite …
Banana Bread: cream 3brwn banana/4T buttr&sug/.5c brwnsug; fold+c flour/.5c whl flour/t bkgpdr&soda&spice/.25t salt. h@350F/175C in loafpan.
Hopefully this has inspired you to follow @cookbook and buy her book eat-tweet.