Tweet In The Holiday With Recipes On Twitter
Yes, you can fit a recipe into a tweet.
Just ask Maureen Evans, author of Eat Tweet: A Twitter Cookbook. She has been sharing recipes with friends and families for years from the Twitter account @Cookbook, and realized early on that not only is it entirely possible, but it can also be fun.
"I try to pack in all of the necessary basics, so that a person can look at the instructions and the ingredients and start exercising their own expression of that recipe, because that's what real cooking is," she says.
There really is an art to this — a code, if you will. Evans uses slash marks to help group or separate steps and measurements.
"I've got a cranberry sauce recipe for Thanksgiving that says to simmer a cup of H20/a cinnamon stick/three whole cloves," she says.
Cranberry Sauce: Simmr c h2o/cinnstick/3whlclove/cardamompod/strip lem&orange zest/2c cranberry to burst; +½c sug(+to taste). Yld 2c.
— Maureen Evans (@cookbook) November 15, 2014
An "&" (the symbol for "and") gathers ingredients added at the same time and in the same amounts. Steps in the recipe are separated by semicolons, and vowels are almost entirely absent. You can find the entire code book here.
Here's her recipe for pumpkin pie:
Pumpkin Pie: Mix,heat10½oz candpumpkin/c brsug/2T SweetSpice/½t salt; +½c crm&milk. Beat+4btnegg. Fill PieShell. 25-30m@400F(center jiggly).
— Maureen Evans (@cookbook) November 16, 2014
Although you might have to cut out some of the instructions and detail, Evans promises that that might not be such a bad thing.
"I think it's what's not said that allows for that creativity," she says.
Share your recipes throughout the holidays with the hashtag #NPRcooks on Twitter.
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Transcript
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
What do you say we create a cookbook together? It's a project...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
OK.
GREENE: You're game for that, Steve?
INSKEEP: Sure, why not?
GREENE: I'm glad. It's a project we're starting for the holidays, and we are hoping you, our listeners, will submit favorite recipes on Twitter using the hashtag #NPRcooks.
INSKEEP: Yes, yes, you can fit a recipe into a tweet.
GREENE: No way.
INSKEEP: Just ask Maureen Evans, author of "Eat Tweet," which sounds kind of like an insult, but, anyway, "Eat Tweet: A Twitter Cookbook." She's been sharing recipes with friends and family on Twitter for years, and realized early on that not only is it entirely possible, it can also be fun.
MAUREEN EVANS: I try to pack in all of the necessary basics, so that a person can look at the instructions and the ingredients and start exercising their own expression of that recipe because that's what real cooking is.
GREENE: Expression of that recipe - there really is an art to this, a code, if you will. Evans uses slash marks to help group or separate steps and measurements.
EVANS: I've got a cranberry sauce recipe for Thanksgiving that says to simmer a cup of H2O/a cinnamon stick/three whole cloves.
INSKEEP: An ampersand - the symbol for and - gathers ingredients added at the same time and in the same amounts. Steps in the recipe are separated by semicolons, and vowels are almost entirely absent.
EVANS: Pumpkin pie - mix,heat10.5ouncescannedpumpkin/cbrsug/2T sweet spice/...
GREENE: And I can even follow normal recipes. This is crazy. Now, although you might have to cut out some of the instructions and detail, Evans promises that that might not be such a bad thing.
EVANS: I think it's what's not said that allows for that creativity.
INSKEEP: OK, there you go. We will share some of Maureen Evans's recipes, as well as her codebook. You need a code book to understand these tweets. On our Twitter account, of course, @MorningEdition, we will also be using the hashtag #NPRcooks to share and collect recipes throughout the holidays - hope you will too. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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