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New York Times Throws Down a Twecipe Challenge
Source: Posted: 04-22-2009 at 05:00:14
| pFiled under: a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/recipes/" rel="tag"Recipes/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/newspapers/" rel="tag"Newspapers/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/on-the-blogs/" rel="tag"On the Blogs/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/food-news/" rel="tag"Food News/a/pimg hspace="4" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2009/04/nyt-tweet-425.jpg" /br /Note: this post comes with a glossary.br /br /"Twecipesamp;sup1;" are a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/29/twitter-recipes" target="_blank"the moment's micro-obsession/a and a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/slashfood"we/a hearts; the New York Times' Dining staff -- certainly a href="http://twitter.com/bittman" target="_blank"active/a and a href="http://twitter.com/pete_wells" target="_blank"useful/a Twitizensamp;sup2; themselves -- for flying into the eye of the storm in conjunction with a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/dining/22twit.html"today's profile/a of Twitter's marquee recipe condenser Maureen Evans, aka a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/cookbook"@cookbook/a. Still, must all prose now be condensed for optimal Tweetabilityamp;sup3;? Yup, it's been an addictively (though ADD) good time watching the 140-or-fewer-character Challenge responses stream into a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23nytrc#search?q=%23nytrc"#nytrc/a?:br /span class="status-body"blockquotea href="http://twitter.com/betaphen" target="_blank"@betaphen/a span id="msgtxt1579783545" class="msgtxt en"Prep chokes w/lemon. Stuff w/zest, crumbs, parm, parsley, r-mary, garlic, carrot, capers. Roast in veg amp; liquid, covered @ 400 for 90/spanbr /br /span class="status-body"a href="http://twitter.com/rorycberger" target="_blank"@rorycberger/a span id="msgtxt1581033839" class="msgtxt en"clean chokes stuff:lemzest/breadcrumbs/Parm/parsley/rosemary/garlic/carrot/capers/samp;p. braise w/wine,carrot,onion,evoo @ 400 1.5 hr/span/span/blockquote/spanWe soundly applaud (and ever so slightly fear) their efforts, but our response was this:br /blockquotespan class="status-body"span class="entry-content"a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/kittenwithawhip"@kittenwithawhip/a Sometimes the answer is just "Go here: a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/bhf92"http://bit.ly/bhf92/a" Not all recipes need be tweetable./span/spanbr //blockquotePerhaps it's terribly 2008 to think this way, but there's a near visceral joy in the reading of Melissa Clark's a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/dining/221arex.html" target="_blank"Stuffed Artichokes with Lemon Zest, Rosemary and Garlic/a recipe in its original form. The title alone (55 characters) vividly evokes the action and sensory experience of crafting, then savoring this dish in a way that spare, if technically correct Tweets can not. It makes for excellent editorial muscle flexing -- like a digital a href="http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/" target="_blank"lipogram/a -- and it's an efficient way to circulate links, but we can't help but hope that a href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/15/appetite-cookbook-of-the-day/" target="_blank"Nigel Slater/a and his ilk of culinary poets never sign up for an @ handle.br /br /Oh - and a href="http://twitter.com/pete_wells" target="_blank"@pete_wells/a, a href="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/take-the-twitter-recipe-challenge/" target="_blank"serial tweets/a are for wusses.br /br /1. Twecipe: 140 character recipebr /2. Twitizen: Participant in the Twitter communitybr /3. Tweetable: Expressible in a 140 character Tweet, or Twitter messagebr /4. # : Hashtags are added in front of terms to make Tweets including them more easily searchable.br /br /[via: New York Times Dining a href="http://twitter.com/nytimesdining/" target="_blank"@nytimesdining/a on Twitter]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/22/new-york-times-throws-down-a-twecipe-challenge/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.slashfood.com/forward/1524145/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/22/new-york-times-throws-down-a-twecipe-challenge/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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