{"id":9019,"date":"2011-01-01T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2010-12-31T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T22:22:37","slug":"new-years-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=9019","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greetings, readers, and happy 2011!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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As usual at this time of year I\u2019ve been thinking about what lies behind me and ahead of me\u2014in general and also on this blog.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I have adored our time together \u201cIn Our Grandmothers\u2019 Kitchens,\u201d and I don\u2019t want to end it.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I do intend to curtail it a bit. Here\u2019s why.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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My hope when I started writing here in September 2008 was that I would grow as a writer and a cook by having a regular outlet.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I also hoped to\u00a0strengthen my \u201cbrand\u201d\u2014the recognition and readership of Tinky\u2014so that when it was time to transform the blog into my second cookbook I would have a ready-made audience for that book (and thus a great argument to any publisher that I should be included in its lists).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I got halfway there. I think I\u2019ve DEFINITELY improved as a writer and a cook. Nevertheless, my career hasn\u2019t\u00a0prospered as much as I hoped it would.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I have a small but loyal readership, for which I am grateful. But my blog\u2019s statistics actually went down this year instead of growing. So clearly I\u2019m doing something wrong.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Part of my problem, I\u2019m sure, stems from timing. I first started writing about food more than 15 years ago because it was one of the few areas of journalism in which there seemed to be a growing demand for writers. Most newspapers had weekly food pages, and they didn\u2019t seem to have the staff to fill those pages.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Since I loved cooking and knew that I could relate food to just about any topic, I was happy to move into this niche.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Things have changed, however. Today, the U.S. has more food writers than ever before. And it has a ton of food bloggers. So my blog and I simply don\u2019t stand out.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I will keep posting here from time to time in the hope that I can figure out how to turn around my fate and that of \u201cIn Our Grandmothers\u2019 Kitchens.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Much\u00a0of my creative energy will be devoted to a new project, however. As regular readers know, I have been busy lately trying to keep up with my aging mother.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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My new writing project will explore our journey together as her dementia progresses.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I plan to put vignettes from our life and from this new writing project on the internet on a blog called \u201cPulling Taffy\u201d<\/a> (Taffy is one of my names for my mother, thanks to her affection for swimming in salt water.)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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So please do keep up with me here and there as we try to be true to ourselves and each other.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, happy New Year to all….<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Tinky<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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P.S. You DO deserve a recipe on January 1–but since I don’t have a new one here’s something appropriate from this past year: black-eyed peas<\/a>, a traditional (and hearty) new year’s dish! Enjoy……..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Greetings, readers, and happy 2011! \u00a0 As usual at this time of year I\u2019ve been thinking about what lies behind me and ahead of me\u2014in general and also on this blog. \u00a0 I have adored our time together \u201cIn Our Grandmothers\u2019 Kitchens,\u201d and I don\u2019t want to end it. \u00a0 I do intend to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}