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KARACOOKS
KARACOOKS
Good Food · Honest History · Strong Opinions
  • The karacooks logo: a hand-drawn pepper cross-section in forest green, burgundy, and gold, with three seed chambers arranged around a burgundy center.

    A Logo, a Pepper, and a Year of Trying to Look Like Myself

    ByKara May 17May 16 Behind the Blog, Personal

    So I’ve been redesigning the blog. I’ll spare y’all the full backstage tour, but if you’ve been around here for any length of time, you’ve watched me cycle through enough visual identities to fill a small museum. Or possibly a cautionary tale. There was the cursive script phase, when the header looked like a wedding…

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  • Julie, Julia, and Old School Food Blogging

    ByKara October 30May 16 Behind the Blog

    I saw the news on Twitter first, and then the nearly immediate follow up by the NY Times; Julie Powell had died of cardiac arrest on November 1st of this year. She was 49. Julie was maybe the first real average person food blogger who became famous off of the internet. There have been plenty…

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  • Category title card: the karacooks pepper mark above the words "Behind the Blog" in forest green Cinzel on a cream background.

    Behind the Blog

    ByKara January 1June 1 Behind the Blog

    A blog post takes five to ten hours to make. This is where I write about the production: the camera, the pizza-box reflector, the cat on the focaccia.

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