In the chaotic kitchen of a recipe developer, you get a food blog called FoodMayhem.
I'm Jessica, an Asian-American, born and raised in NYC, and that's Lon, my Jewish, white husband. While professionally trained as a French culinary- and pastry chef, many of FoodMayhem recipes are my attempt to preserve and share authentic Chinese and Taiwanese recipes learned from my mom. We don't eat Chinese food every day, so you'll get a little bit of anything we find delicious enough to share: from our Eastern European side; recipes and techniques learned from my restaurant days; restaurant reviews, food travel tips; and a few other juicy bits along the way. Welcome to FoodMayhem!
We’ve realized that over 20% of our readers are outside the United States. And many of our readers struggle through the blog because English is not their first language. So we’ve added a new feature: language translation! Now foreign readers can struggle through our blog in their own language 🙂
We’re using Google’s automatic translation tools, which are pretty good; but they are machine translations and are not perfect.
Let us know what you think…
That’s pretty neat! Before I got to the part where Google was doing the translation, I thought you were getting some interns to help. I noticed that the Chinese is simplified characters instead of traditional. Not sure if that would affect your readers…
Hi Lon, The line indicating choice of languages is not visible in Firefox 2 on a PC running Vista. All appears good in IE 7. Hope that’s helpful.
Thanks Tammy… Yea, we went with simplified Chinese as I’ve heard it’s better translations. There is also a traditional Chinese, I may end up doing both.
Marcos, I was concerned this may happen. It’s most likely a browser cache issue with the CSS. It will fix for most users in time. To force it, try holding down the ‘shift’ key while hitting the refresh button on the browser… Hope it fixes it 🙂 If not, call FoodMayhem’s tech support hot-line at 1-900-EAT-FOOD. Rates start at $2.99 per minute. (p.s. for those tragically born without a sense of humor, please don’t dial that number, I’m just kidding).
Dear Tech Support: Your fix did not work. I think you broke the internets and I would like a credit for the support you didn’t provide. Is this support transferable to shoes in case my arches fall? I’ll refrain from asking for other kinds of anatomical support in deference to the G rating of foodmayhem. Mil gracias amigo.
very nice!
although i’d prefer traditional chinese 🙂
Very cool–what a great idea!