Which chefs should you follow on Twitter?
By Jonathan Bender in Chefs
Tuesday, Aug. 11 2009 @ 12:00PM
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The criteria were simple. The authors all had to be chefs. The tweets had to feel like they were being written by the author. And they had to be interesting for at least consecutive days. Here are our recommendations:
Grant Achatz -- owner and chef at Alinea in Chicago. He tends to have quirky observations about diners, life in the kitchen and what he's cooking.
Christopher Kimball -- the founder of America's Test Kitchen on PBS. It's like Bob Vila on Twitter. With recipes and kitchen tips, this is easily the most useful Twitter account in the food universe.
Popeyes Chicken. Just making sure you're still reading. It's always strange when a restaurant has the disembodied voice of a hipster.
IvyStark. The executive chef at Dos Caminos in New York City. Her feed reads like a friend who just happens to be a much better chef than you.
LA Weekly also has a list of Los Angeles-area chefs on Twitter and the Kansas City Star profiled local chefs with Twitter accounts last month. The difficult aspect is wading through the marketing language (appearances, new products and promotional tie-ins) and finding somebody who manages to avoid over- or under-use of what is essentially an online messaging service. Tweets are so short, yet it seems easy to alienate a reading audience fairly quickly. Food Network Humor suggests that followers are revolting in the wake of chef Tyler Florence's overuse of Twitter.
After looking at dozens of feeds, all we found to recommend was these three chefs. And maybe that's the moral of Twitter -- posting and reading tweets is a matter of personal taste, but you'll probably always ignore more than you read.
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