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July 26, 2012
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Not long ago I asked if people thought that the Culinary Arts gallery needed some renovation, and many people agreed that it does. So now I'm opening this journal to discuss if we need new sub-galleries.

Right now we have 5 sub-galleries without further division:

Desserts
"Desserts that encompass cake, candy, pie, pastries, fruit, pudding, ice cream, cookies, or any other food served as the final course of a meal."

Food Art
"Featuring edible food that fits no other sub-category such as ice sculptures, beverages, bread, side dishes, appetizers/canapés/hors d'oeuvres, etc"

Main Dishes
"Main dishes include anything served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as the main course of the meal."

Miscellaneous
Everything else.

Pumpkin Carving
"Photographs of personally carved or decorated pumpkins."

For something as wide and varied as food many people agreed that they're insufficient, and a lot of things end up being mis-categorized or going to miscellaneous.  Of course we want to read the community's concerns and ideas on this issue, so don't hesitate to give your opinion they are all going to be considered.

Some changes that have already been suggested and we're asking for more feedback:
  • Re-structuring all the galleries, but how? All suggestions are very welcome!
  • Change the Pumpkin Carving gallery to "Seasonal" gallery, to include other seasonal foods like Easter Eggs, Gingerbread Houses, etc OR change it to the "Carving" gallery to include carved fruits, carved ice, etc.
  • Changing the name of the "Main Dishes" gallery to include salads, soups, etc.
  • Sub-galleries for desserts. Although, are there enough submissions to justify further division? We already received a suggestion for "Candies and Chocolate", what else?
  • A gallery for drinks and another one for bento.

Those are just a few ideas, if you have anything to say speak up now, this is your moment to be heard :la: we will read and consider all comments, be sure of that ;)


Also, don't forget that Community Week at #projecteducate is starting soon! I really wish I could participate, the past two times were so much fun... but well in case anyone wants to join you can find info here just send them a note with your idea!



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:icondemoncherry:
~Demoncherry Jul 31, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
That's a shame.. :(
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:icontalty:
^Talty Jul 31, 2012   Artisan Crafter
I know :(
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:icondigikijo:
*digikijo Jul 28, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
maybe a Sweets gallery with some subcatergories like cakes/pies, chocolate, candies (I wouldn't submit "Candies" under "desserts"), muffins/cupcakes, ice cream...

and a Fruits category

something like an appetizer gallery and/or side dishes to include salads, soups, hors d'oeuvre, etc.
the Main dishes category is ok, as long as there are other galleries more specific for the rest.

Definitely Drinks and Bento (or maybe Bento and Picnic, I hope I don't offend anyone by putting those 2 together XD)

The word "Carving" in "Pumpkin Carving" is too specific. A Seasonal category with sub-categories for the different holidays would be great (although ppl might get confused if there's another category to submit cookies, for example where to put the x-mas cookies).

maybe Decoration? for food that's less meant to be eaten than more to please the eye.

but where to put bread or cheese?
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~nearisepic Jul 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
hey not to interrupt this conversation..but is it possible I could get this [link] in the pumkin carving gallery? Its kinda old and my cams a little fuzzy..But I think thatd be cool if I could ge tthat in there.
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:icontalty:
^Talty Jul 31, 2012   Artisan Crafter
Yes you can, you can do it yourself if you click the blue button that says "edit" there's an option to change the gallery :)
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:iconmaytel:
Change it to CARVING and Add another for Seasonal (xmas, easter, valentines etc) --- Change the Pumpkin Carving gallery to "Seasonal" gallery, to include other seasonal foods like Easter Eggs, Gingerbread Houses, etc OR change it to the "Carving" gallery to include carved fruits, carved ice, etc.
YES --- Changing the name of the "Main Dishes" gallery to include salads, soups, etc.
YES --- Sub-galleries for desserts. Although, are there enough submissions to justify further division? We already received a suggestion for "Candies and Chocolate", what else?
YES --- A gallery for drinks and another one for bento.

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:icontalty:
^Talty Jul 31, 2012   Artisan Crafter
Thanks for your opinion :la:
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:iconmaytel:
Ohhh...
I should've prepared a list for this but here are my suggestions so far:

- Cake Decorating (for fondant, gum paste, buttercream etc)
- Showpieces (chocolate, pulled sugar etc)
- Drinks (mixed drinks, latte art etc)
- Bento (lunch boxes etc)
- Fruit Carving (not just pumpkin, there are melon carvings etc)
- Cookies (cookies and cookie decoration)
- Chocolate (truffles)
- Pies (pies, handpies etc)
- Sushi
- Recipes
- Egg Decorating (Easter Eggs, Egg faces etc)
- Bread and Doughs (bread bunnies etc)
- Candies
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:icontalty:
^Talty Jul 31, 2012   Artisan Crafter
I would send cake decorating and showpieces to food art, maybe make them sub-galleries there?

Are you suggesting the rest of them as galleries? Because I think that's a looooooooot of them to be the main galleries on culinary arts.
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