Blog Post #7 Technological advancements in the fields of apps, smart appliances, assisted cooking, and artificial intelligence are changing the face of the modern home kitchen for passionate home cooks. My findings echo themes from recent Horizons reports; the prioritization of mobile content and delivery, artificial intelligence, the internet of Read more…
Blog Post #6 Culinary information can be challenging to utilize on an international scale due to poor language translations, the lack of availability of key ingredients, and differences in cultural food norms; however, there are also thornier and more complicated issues at play globally. A simple online search Read more…
Blog Post #5 While culinary topics can be studied online and read about in books, without hands-on experience an individual is simply an armchair gourmand, not a passionate home cook, or PHC. Cooking is the core activity of the hobby and must be learned by doing. Cox et Read more…
Summary of Peer Reviewed Article Hartel, J. (2006). Information activities and resources in an episode of gourmet cooking. Information Research, 12(1). http://informationr.net/ir/12-1/paper282.html This is a 2006 peer-reviewed article and research project by Jenna Hartel, who, at the time this study was published, was a PhD candidate at UCLA. This Read more…
an illustration of Prince’s fridge in 2011, click here to find out what was inside You come home from work, hungry; you scan the contents of your fridge and pull your phone out of your pocket to search for a recipe. This is a common pattern repeated in households Read more…
Berger, J. (2013). Contagious: Why things catch on. Simon and Schuster Viral social media food trends have been on a roll since the corona virus isolated many of us at home with extra free time; dalgona coffee, pancake cereal, and garden art focaccia were just a Read more…
It was late March, 2020; I was staring at a very bare cupboard with a sweet tooth, and a family in need of a morale boost. Luckily, a quick google search produced a recipe for Atlantic Beach Pie; unfamiliar to me, and surprisingly delicious considering the unusual list Read more…
Hi there, my name is Sarah. I have to admit that the first page of this new chapter of my life is not beginning quite as I had imagined it would when I applied to the SJSU MLIS this past winter. I had hoped that my kids would be in Read more…