New year - new blog name

I've been thinking for a while that this blog needed a new name. See, the CSA thing was fun - I'm still part of that meat CSA - but winter in Ontario does not really allow for vibrant vegetable CSAs. (Yes, there is one that I'm aware of - but I wasn't in the mood to experiment with winter greens grown in a basement.) That, and I'm not sure we'll be doing a vegetable CSA come springtime, since the schedule really did make doing the other necessary grocery shopping a bit of a pain. 

So, in light of this shift, I've rechristened the blog. The name originates in something I did during my post doc, when my supervisor would get peeved when anyone would use the word "data" as a singular (for instance, saying "The data indicates," instead of "The data indicate"). Now, let's not get into whether this is right or wrong - one can find support for the argument that using the word data as a singular has now entered enough into common English usage for it to be considered correct. When your boss gets mad when you misuse a word, though, you don't get into this argument. 

To relearn this - I seemed to have missed the lesson in graduate school by avoiding using the word "data" at all - I started to substitute the word "cookies" for it in my head. No one says "the cookies is" - at least, that sounds blatantly wrong to me. And it worked! One might argue it worked too well; I ended up deciding to leave traditional academia, and to pursue my love of baking. Despite a full-time job not in pastry, I'm continuing to take classes in pastry (next class: The Art of Cakes, in April 2010), and pushing myself to develop my skills further. 

Welcome to the new blog!