[Sca-cooks] Note taking

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Now that I have a brief moment in between customer calls...

I keep notes in a spiral notebook and sometimes on loose-leaf. In either
case, I try to write up the redaction and process once I come up with a
useable result as if I were writing an article. That way I have a record
of what I did in something approaching a readable form plus the extremely
chaotic original notes.

Margaret FitzWilliam


On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, A F Murphy wrote:

>
> My previous question reminds me of another. What do people like to use
> to take notes? What do you find works best for experimentation? (OK, I
> know I'll get a dozen answers, I want to hear them all.)
>
> Loose-leaf notebook, so you can add pages when you come back to a recipe
> three months (or years) later? Index cards, ditto? Bound books so you
> can keep track of the order in which you worked? Something I haven't
> thought of? (I can't take the computer into the kitchen, so that won't
> work for preliminary notes, though I may well keep some information on
> it.) Do you at some point separate the final version from the
> experiments? Do you keep a list of "Sounded good but didn't work" ideas?
> Eventually, I'm going to start playing with food, and want to be sure I
> do keep track of what I do.
>
> Anne of the Bright Questions