Article Title:
Adapting Julia Child for E-Readers
Article Author:
Julie Bosman
Article Publication Date:
October 4, 2011
URL:
Adapting Julia Child for E-Readers
Article Summary:
Mastering the Art of French Cooking a book by Julia Childs has been successfully replicated and released for the e-book platform. The process was complicated and requires a certain 2-column format that was previously incapable of being produced. This begins the era of cookbooks in the current digital era with a blast from the past.
Relevance to Class:
Layout and positioning are key roles of the Web Architect. Cookbooks require a certain feel and subtlety in order for the reader to follow and achieve the desired recipe. By waiting until the book could be constructed as a close facsimile to the original, technology and web architecture can bring the past current.
Key Quote:
“When Knopf tried again this summer, the production staff had the entire book retyped by hand, since no electronic file of the book existed. The illustrations throughout the cookbook — tiny sketches of sauté pans and freshly julienned carrots — were scanned at a high resolution so they could be transferred to the e-book. And the publisher managed to recreate the two-column format, just like the original version of “Mastering.”
Other features are purely digital: live links allow readers to jump to other sections in the book, as when Ms. Child suggests that cooks preparing Potage Velouté aux Champignons should also read the recipe for Fluted Mushroom Caps. And readers who are unsure what a roux is can click on the word and gain access to a pop-up dictionary entry. (It’s a mixture of butter and flour.)”
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