New Content 2010-07-21
Welcome, and please look around. For the latest news, don't miss the blog.
We've updated the Cooking School with a write-up on FAT TOM, an important food safety mnemonic if you're not looking to make people sick. Most of the article came from an entry for the blog, which is itself starting to show some life.
And while we're not famous yet, this is encouraging:
We're currently hit number 5 at when you Google "mother sauce mnemonic" (without the quotes). And we've updated the mother sauce entry to give credit where due to the good folks at CPCC.
Hi, Mom 2010-07-05
The A-L site is work in progress, but we're still mostly a blog. The page you are reading now hosts more-or-less permanent content; it doesn't (yet) change often. Head here for content updated at least four times a week.
Happy Father's Day! 2010-06-20
Don't miss our First Annual Father's Day Double Post over at the blog. Colors are still work in progress here at the main site.
Watch Your Eyes! 2010-06-17
phrits is going to be messing with colors and background images. If something's unreadable, he'll fix it quick. Simply ugly might hang around for an hour or two.
New Content 2010-05-29
We've cleaned up the appearance on our sections on either side of your browser screen, and we've launched Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes. That page needs some CSS work. As does this one.
You might have noticed that our banner now includes our site's host provider. They didn't ask for the recognition—hell, at this stage they probably haven't noticed—but they're part of our infrastructure and its support team, so they deserve some appreciation. If you're reading this sentence about the time you're intended to be reading it, they're doing something right.
The glossary of cooking and food terms continues to grow. We're up to 72 terms, most of which have been populated. Unless we've missed something, all the terms are appropriately cross-referenced and hyperlinked, even where definitions have not yet been written. There are blanks, but everything we have is tied together nicely.
The Cooking School has a new lesson on how to make a Béchamel sauce. You know you shouldn't be eating that stuff from the blue box anyway: Learn the right way to make Macaroni & Cheese. You'll never look back.
This page is going to look a little bit like a blog for a while, in the sense that we're not going to immediately delete previous updates such as the one you're reading. We'll come up with some sort of archival system when it makes sense to do so. Part of what we're trying to capture, though, is our own growth and lessons learned along the way. We've already lost a few capsules of time. We're trying not to lose more.
New Links. Still more CSS work, but at least there's no longer nothing there. Others are coming soon. If you want to be included, let us know and what you'd like us to say about you. We reserve the right, etc., but drop us a line if you'd like to be featured.
New Content 2010-05-24
We've added a new section, Cooking School and a first lesson, How to Boil Water. phrits will use more exciting subjects and "recipes" going forward, but the focus will be on how to make good food good rather than on preparing a particular dish.
The Cooking School led to a couple more sections that should continue to grow with the rest of the site: Food Terms (to the right, under "Resources", still with some undefined terms) and Analtyical Life Rules of Thumb (to the left).
The book list has been cleaned up a little bit, but there's still more to do there. Colors and presentation are still very much in flux. There is no more greeking on the front page, the To Do List has been removed from the main menu as have bogus links at the top and bottom menus, and debugging text and formatting (e.g. "Draft Page" banners) have been deleted from behind the scenes. Just a little more stability in the real thing and we'll need to set up a development environment.
We've also fixed a few minor bugs and cleaned up here and there. As always, feedback is welcome on content, layout, broken things, or anything else that might be relevant.
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