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Podcast: New Books in Food
Episode: Signe Rousseau, âFood and Social Media: You Are What You Tweetâ (AltaMira Press, 2012)
Description: The other day I found myself in a cooking situation thatâs fairly common: I had a few odd ingredientsâsome oxidized strips of bacon, a withered red pepper, a bunch of half-wilted parsleyâand needed to use them before they went bad, but how? The cookbooks on my counter didnât have an index in which I could search for multiple ingredients, and I didnât have time to flip through all of the recipes for each ingredient in the hopes of a possible hit. So I popped them into Google, along with the search-term ârecipe,â and in .31 seconds I had...