And we’re at the starting blocks..
The origins… A bunch of largely tech-tweeters that are also kinda interested in food.
@jobsworth reguarly tweets his meal preparations. @hubmum tweets evidence of her cooking related injuries (gore alert). One Sunday afternoon they land on the idea of a synchronised twittercast of meal preparation.
@williamheath reckons this sounds fun, and puts his saucepan on the hob too.
I’m @JayneHilditch and I love to cook, and have been known tweet the odd picture or three of my supper. And I follow three of the above cast of characters and smiled as this little idea came together. So I figured I’d join in too. I pinged a tweet to @Kate_Halls as I figured she might also like to get onboard… Her enthusiasm for cooking is unquestionable, albeit the verdict on the results is more equivocal
I’ve offered to organise… so this is it.
An outline plan folks - feel free to chip in…
Let’s agree a format - are we all thinking the same thing? We settle on a date/time, agree a hashtag, and do a sort of “twitter-commentary” as we progress through our afternoon of culinary endeavours. Pictures of ingredients and equipment laid out ready, progress shots, and finished article. And injuries should any arise.
We could post our diners’ responses to the meals we produce.
This tumblr to document more fully the recipes/instructions.
Thoughts/Questions?
Should we be ambitious and each try to tweet a full 3 course dinner? Or should we take a dish each in order to create a single meal?
Could this be more than some simple fun on a Saturday afternoon? I’ve oft been inspired to try new things by hearing about others ideas. Could we inspire a bunch of non-cookers to try to create something new? Could sharing what goes well *and* not so well, help others to experiment?
I’m guessing we might all share an underlying theme of interest in “real food” and wanting others to enjoy that too… Could this become something bigger?
Let’s see what we learn from the initial experiment :)
So, first things first. As an outline, does that sound like something we’re all up for? How do we make it a better idea?
I figured this URL would come in handy for our little experiment. I’ll set you up with permissions for this tumblr, and I’m about to set up comments in it (assuming I can figure out disqus).
