{"id":37613,"date":"2004-10-08T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/10\/08\/cooking-for-engineers\/"},"modified":"2004-10-08T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T06:57:00","slug":"cooking-for-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20041008-00\/?p=37613","title":{"rendered":"Cooking for engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All geeks who enjoy cooking (and who have cable television) worship Alton Brown&#8217;s program <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/food\/show_ea\">Good Eats<\/a><\/i>. It&#8217;s the cooking show for engineers.<\/p>\n<p> And recently I discovered a cooking blog that is designed for engineers, named, not surprisingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingforengineers.com\/\"> Cooking for Engineers<\/a>. Marvel at the elegance and beauty of the recipe diagrams. I have no idea whether the dishes are any good, but the recipes themselves are works of art. <\/p>\n<p> (And don&#8217;t miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingforengineers.com\/2004\/10\/off-topic-orange-juice-shelf-life.html\"> analysis of orange juice shelf life<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p> Side remark: I found it somewhat odd that many Slashdotters responded to <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/09\/16\/230388.aspx\"> my spam graph of a few days ago<\/a> with remarks like &#8220;This guy needs to get a hobby.&#8221; I guess they don&#8217;t consider cooking, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/02\/13\/72477.aspx\"> knitting<\/a>, or studying <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/01\/25\/62762.aspx\"> German<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/05\/12\/130455.aspx\"> Swedish<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/07\/01\/170857.aspx\"> Mandarin<\/a> to be valid hobbies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All geeks who enjoy cooking (and who have cable television) worship Alton Brown&#8217;s program Good Eats. It&#8217;s the cooking show for engineers. And recently I discovered a cooking blog that is designed for engineers, named, not surprisingly, Cooking for Engineers. Marvel at the elegance and beauty of the recipe diagrams. I have no idea whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-37613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>All geeks who enjoy cooking (and who have cable television) worship Alton Brown&#8217;s program Good Eats. It&#8217;s the cooking show for engineers. And recently I discovered a cooking blog that is designed for engineers, named, not surprisingly, Cooking for Engineers. Marvel at the elegance and beauty of the recipe diagrams. I have no idea whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}