Comments on: The internet is sometimes wonderful https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 31 Jul 2017 09:37:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Amanda https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2238364 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 09:37:34 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2238364 Appreciated! something similar happened to me while looking for some precautionary steps after when my dog had chocolate last night. I came across a website it was a nice read, If only may want to read it: http://www.petriculture.com/can-dogs-eat-chocolate/

]]> By: Esther https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234734 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:49:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234734 That’s a funny book. Though I grew up in the 60’s in New York and never saw any food in real life that looked like that, did you?

Makes me wonder how people in the future will look back at us.

]]> By: Susanamantha https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234477 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:54:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234477 The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks is one cookbook to look at with wonder! The photos of unappetizing food are amazing. It would be a hoot to have a dinner party and serve some of the ugliest food imaginable.

]]> By: Esther https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234414 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:05:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234414 There are two bookcases of cookbooks framing a big window in my kitchen. It doesn’t seem like much for some reason, when you’re in the room. But whoa, it’s 60 feet!

I use them all the time, usually several simultaneously, it is interesting to cross reference recipes. How can you not cook with 5 books at a time? How can you have only 1 edition of the Joy, they’re all different? How can you resist the cookbook section at the annual library sale?

Most of them are vintage, I love the Time Life world history of food, the Larousse, the esscoffier, old frigidaire and molasses pamphlets… I’m also a sucker for new books on Viking and Israeli cuisine — mixed household:-)

Then there is the file drawer with clippings, the pile of family scrapbooks, and of course, the internet.

None of my friends cook, everyone I know hates cooking, besides my brothers, for some reason. we text each other recipes, or curiously, photos of the prices of canned fish at the supermarket.

]]> By: I'm with Decius https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234410 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:53:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234410 The internet is great if you know exactly what you want to cook; your recipe file will remind you what you’ve cooked before; but a cookbook can inspire and take you in new directions.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234382 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:29:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234382 Susanamantha:

I was something like that years ago. I still have several notebooks of recipes, many of which I’ve never made (and never will make at this point). I was VERY into cooking when I was cooking for a family, and also used to have guests with some regularity. Neither are still true, which is easier but makes me a bit sad.

]]> By: DN3 https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234378 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:20:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234378 I work in a used bookstore. For the longest time we have slowed down taking in cookbooks to a crawl. It is as you write because of the internet. What we have determined is that cookbooks have to be regarded in the same manner as coffee table books – decorative furniture. Not too be used so much as to be seen.

]]> By: Susanamantha https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234354 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:09:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234354 I have an obsession/addiction, possibly both, and it’s recipe collecting. My mother was a professional cook and my sister and I inherited her love of offering delicious meals to ourselves and others. I have her cookbooks, my own collection (somewhat weaned out now), and thousands of recipe clippings, annotated with improvements or comments. The advent of internet cooking sites spelled doom for me. I have saved thousands in virtual files and thousands in paper files.

If I live to be 500 I could never begin to cook the ones I have. So, the contents are being sorted into “Cook Later” and “Cook Soon”. The “Cook Soon” file soon gets divided into a separate “Cook Really Soon” file as well.

Yes, I do cook from my files as well as my loose-leaf notebooks of “favorites”, about 150. And still at 5:00, I wonder, “What’s for dinner tonight?”

]]> By: Gringo https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234334 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:25:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234334 huxley, what was the name of the pressure cooker cookbook with a disastrous recipe? As I like cookbooks for reading, it would be of interest.
I have seen some pressure cooker cookbooks that do not agree with my experience in pressure cooking, e.g., how long to cook beans.

]]> By: Ed Bonderenka https://thenewneo.com/2017/07/17/the-internet-is-sometimes-wonderful/#comment-2234330 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:49:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=70194#comment-2234330 Just did a neighbor’s brakes. There were a couple pins that were slightly different that I didn’t notice until reassembly.
Five minutes of time on the computer in the garage and we knew which was which.

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