“Blogging”. It works for me.
January 7, 2008
Maybe I’m preaching to the choir, or stating the obvious, but I really am digging this whole “blog” format.
For a long time, I wanted to try writing a book regarding many of the things I am writing here. But I never got around to that, well, for a lot of reasons. Besides the fact that I didn’t really know enough to round out all that I wanted to say, I found it pretty hard to get past “outline form”, because the topic I had set my sights on writing about was gigantic, and the whole project was very intimidating to start trying to get even a small part into a draft form.
With this blog thing though, I can break my thoughts into easier to chew chunks, leave the stuff I’m not sure about until later, AND get instant gratification and feedback when I post thoughts on one topic. Its nice. And it works for me. Book can wait until I have done more school, because I really would like to limit how precocious I have to be. Veganism forbid I make a false claim or overlook something in print!
And because I hate to post without a picture, here is what I think is REALLY funny lately: Brewing my morning espresso in a 50 mL beaker.
I amuse myself way too easily. I sit in the kitchen, alone, drinking my coffee out of my beaker and laughing at my own joke. Its great. (Lame, but great.)
January 7, 2008 at 11:04 am
I agree. It does work for you. I so much enjoyed reading about your brioche experiment. I am so excited about this blog.
January 7, 2008 at 11:26 am
susie you are so fun!
January 7, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Ha! I totally get the whole beaker thing. I have a tea mug( with matching cereal bowl) that has duck feet. I don’t use them as much as I would like because the legs are unsteady and they keep threatening to tip over!
January 10, 2008 at 8:10 am
It does work! And this way we don’t have to wait. Keep up the good work
January 21, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I often wonder if some day I could turn my rants into some sort of memoirs, but upon thought I think there’s that whole online/offline shift there.
Some things I think will forever have more heart when they’re tangible, but information available online, openly, sort of changes everything.
February 13, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Susie, I just recently started reading your blog (via the PPK) and I really enjoy reading about all your fascinating food science experiments. Kind of like watching Alton Brown–except I find you more interesting…. Blogging IS great, but if you’d ever decide to compile some of your recipe-experiments into a zine or something, I’d definitely be in line for a copy.
February 29, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Hi Susie, I really love what you’re doing on this blog — first time I’ve seen real vegan baking science, and I can’t wait to see your egg white replacer recipe! [Dreams of vegan cream puffs droooool...]
I’m also an editor at a book publisher in Berkeley, CA, and I’d love to talk to you more about someday working on a book. There are a few good vegan baking books out there, but none (as far as I know) that get into real food science details, and I think such a book would do really well. Please email me if you’d like to talk more about it! (I realize you’re still in school and all, so this might be a years-down-the-road sort of thing, but perhaps worth discussing, at least.)