Giunta- Blog Post 1

Hello class, my name is Nick Giunta. I am a third-year communication student and looking forward to participating in this class forum. As for this discussion post, there are a lot of social media accounts and outlets that I follow that interest me. The one in particular that I keep up with the most is "Cooking with Darryl". This summer, in particular, I really tried to enhance my cooking ability. This Instagram page does a good job of connecting with the viewer so that the recipes are easy to follow at home. Some cooking accounts make it difficult to follow as they do not take into account the accessibilities of the viewer. This account specifically, made me learn a lot of new techniques about cooking while also keeping me engaged with humorous content. For example, for my birthday I wanted to cook a two-inch tomahawk steak but I did not know how to cook it. So I scrolled through his posts and saw that he posted how to cook a tomahawk medium rare. I followed his easy steps and the steak turned out to be perfection. This was a fun and easy way to learn that made it less stressful for me to cook this precious steak. I will continue to follow his page and look forward to learning more about cooking and other different recipes. 



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  1. Connor McLeodSeptember 22, 2022 at 8:14 AM

    Hi Nick. I have also seen Darryl on TikTok and am very interested in his videos. I agree with what you said about how he is someone that gives very good instruction and is easy to follow along, unlike other cooking accounts. Over the past 4 years I have worked on and off as a chef but never really had any interest to cook at home. But I found that with these videos it gave me inspiration to cook different things I did not realize I had the ability to do at home.
    Overall great post, Connor.

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