ILCooking group blog?

yes.

I would read

i could maybe get my sister to contribute vegetarian expertise, too? she loves to photograph her tasty dishes.

seafood paella:
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v195/98/84/508198413/n508198413_376928_5814.jpg

that would be fun! i have a food blog (yumh0tp0t.w0rdpress.c0m), but it's a bit more about eating out. a group thing would be interesting.

I would contribute to all this group blog (if you'd have me).

Any preferences where it is/software/etc? I've got tons of domain space at both TheIlliterate and Teqne and am using Greymatter (which is free but not the simplest interface). I'm also using Vox (jaqsez.vox.com) which I like pretty well, but wordpress and blogger, etc are also good. Others? Pros? Cons?

I think the more the merrier, fwiw. Also, anything to do with food, or just with cooking in particular? I'd vote for the more general food free-for-all myself.

lol @ Meat, the press

gah, have not posted in so long there. So much has changed.

i like the food free-for-all concept too. just as long as it doesn't turn into c-hound ;-)

my total lack of tech-savvy is about to become painfully obvious...but I vant to help.

how does group-blogging work editorially? do writers take turns posting? would there need to be an overall administrator or editor in chief? the time commitment is tricky, for all the time we spend on the net we all have lives, jobs, relationships etc to balance, hopefully there's a way to share responsibility for all this.

without belittling anyone else, jaq seems like the most accomplished cook and computer person here, if we need a leader. but i wouldn't want to burden her (or anyone else) with the bulk of the organizational work.

I Love Comics had a group blog of sorts on Wordpress. Worked pretty well as I recall. Freaky Trigger uses Wordpress too, I'm sure.

Wordpress looks good, and we can do a group blog there. I'd be glad to set it up and get things going. The only group blog I currently read is The Ethicurean (http://ethicurean.com/ - which also runs on Wordpress) - basically the authors post their related stories/news bites/etc whenever. When I first started reading it, there were a few posts each week and now sometimes it runs to several each day. I think that works well - people posting things of interest, longer pieces, recipes, cookbook/book/article/study reviews, technique sort of things, hint/tips. Or the idea of a question posed to the group and whoever can respond posts. Or maybe a monthly theme?

But the important question: What do we call it???

I Cove Looking

I think, um, put all your suggestions in here and we'll do the first ever ILCooking poll.

mine, stolen from Casuistry's thread title: "Is that...PIE?"

"Where's Tep?"

wouldn't it be hilarious if we just called it "what's the big deal w/ CHOWHOUND?"

"Puff Pastry, You Are My Mistress"

"Tasty"

i'd post to it

me too

me too

i could provide the that-guy-can't-cook-shit comic relief

I Love Comics had a group blog of sorts on Wordpress

waht??

Yeah, Warlock Magazine.

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,080 for "blogged arteries". (0.16 seconds)

Any more ideas for a name? I'll start a poll this evening with all the contenders.

oh right, warlock.

It has to be is that...PIE?

I'm in

I am registering my interest.

Me too.

Oh, I didn't realize the pie thing was a quote from me. Oh. Well, ok then.

Also even though I rarely cook, I would like in. It would maybe help be inspire-y.

Well, rarely cook these days, I mean. Blah.

The coffee, it does nothing!

yes i am hoping it will prompt me to start cooking more.

So - anyone who would like to contribute to Is that...PIE? please go create a user name at http://www.wordpress.com, then email me the email address you used to sign up there. (Webmail from ILX is my actual email.) Then I can add you as a contributor to the blog.

Here's the link to the blog: http://isthatpie.wordpress.com/

They don't allow capitol letters or special characters in the hostname, but the title can be changed to whatever. I also added ...and can we eat it? as the subtitle.

That works! Rah.

Also it might be fun if people said inaugurated the blog by posting a recipe of some "comfort food" which they can (and maybe do) make in their sleep...

i would participate

Sign up at wordpress Remy and send me the email address you used for the account.

Mmmm, comfort food....

I think somebody with artistic skills oughtta design a swanky logo

Yes. But that person is not me. Do any of us do that sort of thing? I think there should be a fork in it.

stick a fork in it!

Okay instead of working, I wrote a comfort food post.

i think that beth parker could draw something nice?

Is Beth still around? That would be cool.

I can do something, but I have to get past deadline hell first.

Middle of next week maybe.

Oh excellent!

I agree with your views and would like to subscribe to your RSS feed.

Put your suggestions for links for the blogroll in here. lauren, I'll add Yum Hotpot, if that's okay? I'll also link in Harold McGee's blog.

yes, that's fine.

I have a future post in mind for when I get out of work hell. I'm thinking about chefs and food writers who've had to turn their eating habits around 180 degrees, from way-unhealthy to nearly-fat-free. The only names I have in mind right now are Jason Perlow and Graham Kerr -- y'all know any others?

Harold McGee Hath A Blog?!

Oh yes! It used to be better, now it is links to his NYT columns.

rock - a neighbor of mine who's a fairly well known food writer in nyc has been blogging about his diet. his writing schtick is definitely quantity-over-quality and he's a BIG dude so it must be a struggle, the man literally eats for a living and the very idea of fat-free/healthy contradicts his whole stance. back w/a link.

tell him to stop biting our Ian! daily food consumption log

'stop biting' is perhaps not the best choice of words in this case

lol - this guy makes ian look like a vegan

scroll down for diet update

food blogs i check daily:

slashfood
serious eats
curious cook
bitten

What are the pixel dimensions of this theoretical blog header I'm thinking about working on?

760 x 200

Back from a week skiing in France (mmm...tartiflette and raclette); will post soon! It's looking great!

Mmmm - aprés-ski melted cheese

I added the food blog of a Portland-based friend (she of Tillamook 1st-runner-up mac-n-cheese fame), cap'n blog and salty, and her Brooklyn-based sister's Beet Goes On to the Is That...Pie? blog roll. The latter's "thorough borough" post is a long, yummy adventure.

btw, we are getting a respectable 30+ hits/day. I don't think that's all just us (mine aren't counted).

I am enjoying your blog, guys!

tehresa, have your sister sign up for wordpress and send me her email addy if she wants to come post! I should introduce iheartbacon, who is my friend David - we run into him and his partner all the time in local eateries and they are both good cooks. At our last party, when it was music geeks vs. cooks, we hang out in the kitchen area tasting all my cooking fats and came up with the idea of having a Fat Feast. Which with luck we will pull off in March or April.

ooh i just realized i haven't gotten around to posting here yet! maybe i will cook something lovely on sunday :) need to do a major grocery trip. i was going to do a lentils comfort food post, but lauren did, so i will save that for summertime foods posting because the recipe goes well with bright salads, etc.

jaq, i sent the info to my sis. we'll see if she gets around to registering!

Man, 760 x 200 is a tiny canvas. Anyway, here are three initial tries using stock art.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/pieblogheader1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/pieblogheader2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/pieblogheader3.jpg

I may go buy a pie today to get some better shots with. What do you guys think of these?

I like the font and layout on the first one, and the image of the third...

is that irritating?

I like the first one a lot - esp the orange font over the red/purple of the berries. Also agreed with Remy, I like the font on the 1st and 2nd over the one on the third.

But I'm meh on the third image.

is that irritating?

Not at all, the more feedback the better.

One thing I like about the Yard Work (I Love Baseball) blog is that they have a bunch of header images set to display at random. Could we do that? I could do a zillion (well, a dozen or two) pie images, including meat pies, cream pies, fried pies, chicken pot pies, etc. One of the initial roadblocks for me in this was coming across a bunch of images of sweets and thinking about savory pies.

I'm sure we could do the random multiple headers, though might have to crack out some CSS skills and upgrade to a custom level on Wordpress. Also - images could be pie ingredients, or non-pie foods, because while the answer to Is that pie? might be no, we still might be able to eat it.

fwiw i love the first 2 images but am not crazy about any of the fonts. i have yet to post to the blog, though...

turns out the sis has a blog already, though she hasn't updated in a while.

if anyone's interested in veg things: http://veggieliciousfood.blogspot.com/

If anyone wants space, I have it in spades (?) and can install wordpress! Email me at stevienixed at gmail.

I can even add message board if you like (for readers for example)

Okay, I just did an asparagus post and suggest a theme of spring vegetables for this round. Peas, spinach, lettuces, dandelion greens, ferns - have at you!

This is new: Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

Yeah, I saw that. Should I leave it, or see if I can get rid of it? I haven't poked much at the layout or anything.

So, is no one interested in participating any more?

Well, I stil look at it (and indeed have bookmarked that link in the last one).
There's only so many hours in the day though...sigh.

I'm still in, but, you know, have been busy or something.

I'm still interested in microwave coffee-mug cake recipes appearing in my RSS feed, but I haven't had much to say (or to cook!) lately.

that recipe was awesome!

i, however, am not, and don't have much time for the cooking of things until january. maybe then! still like reading it, though!

I made a few changes - added a link to send questions to and a list of active authors that will pull up all the posts for that person.

If we get questions, I might post them here for responses, or maybe just post an answer and let others respond in the comments section.

I had a question about the best way to savor a home-grown but still russet potato.

Scrub it, dry it, rub the skin with butter, roast on a rack (or on a pile of salt in a ceramic dish) in a 350 deg F oven for an hour or so (depending on size). Eat plain.

Or bury it in the coals of a fire in the evening and eat it for breakfast. Except that messes with the skin (which I think is the best part).

I added the tag cloud to the sidebar and may go through and add tags to posts that don't have any yet. We are averaging around 20 hits/day, though I expect to start getting some interesting google hits with lauren's Balls post :)

sorry about that!

LOL, I think it's great :) When we get some good search strings, I'll post them.

Hey, I'd like to participate!!!!

Great! Sign up to Wordpress, then send me the email address you used for that account. Use the email link on the Is That....Pie? site, because the email associated with my ILX signin doesn't work anymore.

Also - it doesn't matter what name you make your Wordpress account, you can always change your displayed name.