For the past couple of weeks in Serious Eats Talk, I’ve been meddling with Talk topic titles, trying to help make them more precise and reflective of what’s being asked in the thread. In some cases, I truly think my meddling is helpful. For instance, “Need a butcher in Phoenix” is a better title than [...]
STYLE MATTERS capitalization Watch your caps, folks. I’m seeing weird-ass shit that shouldn’t be capped. And I’m seeing things lowercased that should absolutely be capped. It’s driving me crazy because this is elementary school English. I’m not going to go over the basic rules of capitalization, because you learned that in third grade. Er, maybe [...]
Each week, I keep track of minor style points on Serious Eats and issue an end-of-week email to staff and contributors of things to watch out for. Call it a “post postmortem.” (Get it, “post” as in “blog post”? Groan.) I’m going to post them here on my personal blog for anyone (God help them) [...]