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'''John-Bryan Standridge Hopkins''' (born [[September 9]], [[1971]] in [[Birmingham]]) is a food writer and blogger, known for his "[[Foodimentary]]" weblog and Twitter profile, and for compiling a calendar of food holidays that was adopted by Google.

Hopkins spent his childhood in [[Hayden]] and after a few years in Blount County, attended grade school in [[Childersburg]]. He enrolled at  Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tennessee on a choral scholarship at age sixteen and graduated in [[1990]] with a degree in theater set design. He went on to complete a bachelor's of interior design at [[Southern Institute]] in Birmingham in [[1994]] while also operating his own firm, [[Hopkins House Interiors]] on [[18th Street South Homewood|18th Street South]] in [[Homewood]]. Notably, he was commissioned to take over design development for the expansive [[Larry House residence]], which was completed in [[1997]] at [[Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club|Shoal Creek]].

Hopkins and partner [[Terry Finley]] purchased the historic Spanish Colonial-style [[Jacob Salie residence]] at 11 [[Bonita Drive]] in the [[Hollywood]] section of [[Homewood]] in [[2006]]. Over the next two years they remodeled the house, with an extension designed by architect [[Louis Nequette]]. Hopkins published a blog chronicling the progress of the renovations that generated considerable local interest. He continues to work as design manager for [[Frank Stitt]]'s restaurants, and for occasional clients.

Hopkins began his weblog, "Foodimentary", in [[2005]]. He began using Twitter in [[2007]] and has collected more than 854,000 followers on that platform. He received two "Shorty Awards" from Sawhorse Media in [[2009]] and [[2010]] for his role as a social media influencer. Along with entries on food culture, Hopkins collected information on food holidays which he expanded into a year-round calendar by inventing new observances. Google adopted his food holiday calendar into its search results in [[2015]].

Hopkins has participated in Birmingham's "[[FoodBlogSouth]]" conference since its beginning, and has made appearances as an expert guest on the Food Network and the Cooking Channel. He has also been consulted for pieces in Epicurious, ''Slate'' magazine, the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''The New York Times''. He helped to establish the weekly cooking demonstrations at [[Pepper Place Market]].

Hopkins contributed to the ''Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets'', published in [[2015]]. His first book, ''Foodimentary: Celebrating 365 Food Holidays,'', was published in [[2017]] by Wellfleet Press through an exclusive deal with [[Books-A-Million]].

Hopkins purchased the historic [[Florence Jordan residence]] on [[Highland Avenue]] in [[2016]].

== References ==
* McAlister, Laura (July 14, 2011) "A Home to Remember". ''Over the Mountain Journal''.
* Tuttle, Brad (June 17, 2014) "Meet the Guy Who Totally Makes Up the Fake Holidays We Celebrate." ''Money''
* Dougherty, Conor (August 2, 2015) "Need a Reason to Celebrate? Check Online, Where Social Media Fills the Calendar." ''The New York Times''
* Cambron, Caty (n. d.) "[http://bigcom.com/perspectives/qa-with-john-bryan-hopkins-foodimentary/ Q&A With John-Bryan Hopkins (Foodimentary)]" BIG Communications
* Houser, Dave G. (August 28, 2017) "Wait, it’s National WHAT Day?" ''MultiBriefs''
* "[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John-Bryan_Hopkins John-Bryan Hopkins]" (September 22, 2017) Wikipedia - accessed September 29, 2017

==External links==
* [http://foodimentary.com/ Foodimentary] weblog
* [http://twitter.com/Foodimentary Foodimentary] at Twitter.com

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