Eat Your Books (an ongoing adventure)
Jan. 17th, 2013 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo I have now catalogued 353 of my cookbooks on Eat Your Books, my new favourite website. Of those, the recipes of 114 have already been indexed. That's what, 30%? I thought the number would come down, but not perhaps that far. I am hopeful this won't result in an ongoing neglect of the bulk of my collection, as the convenience of indexing steers me towards that minor third. We'll see.
In the meantime, though, I am excitedly rediscovering treasures that I laid in and then lost sight of; and also amusing myself with incidentals. The website breaks books down into categories: 323 of mine so far have a "country" classification, 159 "ethnicity", so on and so forth - and one, count it, one classifies as "nutrition". (That would be the gluten-free baking book I bought in anticipation of a need that may yet arise.) This kind of accurately represents my interests, and my ignorances too. A friend told my that my risotto was too high-carb for his diabetic metabolism, and I'm afraid I looked at him blankly. I just can't think of food in terms of carbs and proteins and I know not what, just as I can't think of writing in terms of intimate-thirds and beat-points and three-act structures and again I know not what. I have not the mind analytical, I guess.
Also I now have Kipling on Mars and I have no idea what to do with him. None.
In the meantime, though, I am excitedly rediscovering treasures that I laid in and then lost sight of; and also amusing myself with incidentals. The website breaks books down into categories: 323 of mine so far have a "country" classification, 159 "ethnicity", so on and so forth - and one, count it, one classifies as "nutrition". (That would be the gluten-free baking book I bought in anticipation of a need that may yet arise.) This kind of accurately represents my interests, and my ignorances too. A friend told my that my risotto was too high-carb for his diabetic metabolism, and I'm afraid I looked at him blankly. I just can't think of food in terms of carbs and proteins and I know not what, just as I can't think of writing in terms of intimate-thirds and beat-points and three-act structures and again I know not what. I have not the mind analytical, I guess.
Also I now have Kipling on Mars and I have no idea what to do with him. None.