Is Twitter the Newest Cooking School?
By the All Culinary Schools career research team—Your source for Culinary School news, trends and programs.
Food enthusiasts have long known that the Internet is a source for vast numbers of recipes posted by everyone from amateur chefs to professionals with cooking school backgrounds. But move over, Epicurious.com and RecipeZaar—it looks like Twitter is the newest craze for spreading the word about recipes and kitchen tips.
Online foodies ranging from bloggers to celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Martha Stewart are using the platform to "tweet" 140-character suggestions, advice and links to outstanding recipes. The most recent trend is even more incredible: using Twitter to transmit entire "micro-recipes" in a single tweet. Not for the faint of heart, these super-abbreviated recipes—if you can decode them—can tell you how to make anything from baba ghanoush to strawberry shortcake. Even award-winning chefs are getting on board, turning Twitter into a miniaturized cooking school.
One of the most-lauded authors of "Twecipes" is Maureen Evans (twitter.com/cookbook), a 27-year-old writing graduate student and home cook in Northern Ireland with over 16,000 followers. A typical recipe might look like this:
Lemon Lentil Soup: mince onion&celery&carrot&garlic; cvr@low7m+3T oil. Simmer40m+4c broth /c puylentil/thyme&bay&lemonzest. Puree+lemonjuice.
If you aren't already in cooking school—or even if you are—next time you're stumped for recipe ideas, try turning to Twitter for a quick fix.
Sources:
- Downes, Lawrence. "Take 1 Recipe, Mince, Reduce, Serve." The New York Times.
- Hill, Michael. "Smthg gr8 4 brkfst? Twitter's hyper-short recipes." The Seattle Times.
- Jamieson, Ruth and Morwenna Ferrier. "Stuck for a recipe? Just use Twitter and find a top chef." The Observer.
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