“Last year, IDEO announced their Startup-in-Residence program. Their first adoptee was Food Genius, an app to find restaurants by the dish you wanted to eat. But when they left IDEO’s program, Food Genius was no longer another foodie tool.” Read More: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671770/food-genius-scours-menus-to-turn-food-trends-into-infographics#1
Monthly Archives: February 2013
“NEW YORK – February 6, 2013 – Hot off the grill – Bravo’s Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series and the No. 1 rated food show on cable, “Top Chef,” will be returning for an eleventh season.” Read More: http://eater.com/archives/2013/02/06/top-chef-season-eleven-is-coming-bravo-announces.php
Reading: “Top Chef Season Eleven Is Coming, Bravo Announces”
“Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the perfect soda-drinking experience, your own notion of cola consumption in its purist Platonic form. Sure, your favorite beverage will likely differ from mine (R.I.P.” Read More: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671769/crazy-eating-utensils-designed-to-stimulate-all-the-senses
Reading: “Crazy Eating Utensils, Designed To Stimulate All The Senses”
In a conversation with Bill Moyers, the scholar Joseph Campbell said that “if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are […]
Things I Discovered About eLearning from Writing for a Food ...
“Who in the world needs a specialized milk pan? Pfft, not me, that’s for sure, especially after trying to heat up milk for a matcha latte yesterday.” Read More: http://www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com/accessories/kaico-enamel-milk-pan/
Reading: “Kaico Enamel Milk Pan — ACCESSORIES”
“1. On Seattle: “For a long time now, one of the best and most interesting food scenes in America, period.”2. On the Tesla he rented while in Seattle: “They’ve got internet on this motherfucker, I can watch porn while I’m driving.”3.” Read More: http://eater.com/archives/2013/02/05/the-layovers-series-finale-in-seattle-just-the-one-liners.php
Reading: “The Layover’s Series Finale in Seattle: Just the One-Liners”
“I thought it was about time I had a new header more appropriate for a historian. And since I enjoy collecting and dissecting pictures of people grinding grains, I’ve put up this engraving entitled “L’art du fair pain à l’âge de pierre” (The Art of Making Bread in the Stone […]
Reading: “The Art of Making Bread in the Stone Age”
“In January 2012, I started Paper and Salt. The past year brought a lot of new things: new jobs, new friends, new recipes, new books, new travels.” Read More: http://paperandsalt.org/2013/01/19/of-books-and-cooks-5-lessons-from-year-1/
Reading: “Of Books and Cooks: 5 Lessons from Year 1”
“When James Joyce sat down and wrote, in Ulysses, “Her griddlecakes done to a goldenbrown hue and Queen Ann’s pudding of delightful creaminess,” he probably did not imagine that decades later, bloggers in the 21st century would be attempting to cook the very foods he described.” Read More: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2012/08/cooking-like-a-character/
Reading: “From the Page to the Plate: Bringing Literary Dishes ...
“The Federal (FDRL) is a Canadian design agency based in the nation’s capital of Ottawa. In a project entitled Maple Set, the Federal prototyped an incredible series of kitchen knives made from Maple wood that are designed to draw attention to the high polished blade.” Read More: http://twistedsifter.com/2013/02/wooden-kitchen-knives-by-the-federal/
Reading: “Kitchen Knives Made from Maple Wood”
“The Tampa Tribune food writer Jeff Houck boldly makes the call that television personality Anthony Bourdain is “our generation’s foul-mouthed Julia Child.” Read More: http://eater.com/archives/2013/02/04/breaking-anthony-bourdain-is-our-generations-julia-child.php
Reading: “Is Anthony Bourdain This Generation’s Julia Child?”
“Is your lemon juice really citrusy sugar water? Is that hunk of white tuna sushi actually escolar, a cheaper fish associated with its own kind of food poisoning?” Read More: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2013/02/dont-get-duped-six-foods-that-might-not-be-the-real-deal/
Reading: “Don’t Get Duped: Six Foods That Might Not Be ...
“Hot German beer soup. The History Beer soup! Soup made from beer! And there is no cheddar cheese or Guinness in sight–this is a sweet, German lager soup. This recipe comes from the generically named Practical Cook Book one of the most popular German cookbooks of all time.” Read More: http://www.fourpoundsflour.com/the-history-dish-beer-soup/
Reading: “The History Dish: Beer Soup”
“France came out on top at the Bocuse d’Or this week thanks to the efforts of team captain Thibaut Ruggeri. Ruggeri, who works as sous chef at the Lenôtre restaurant in Paris, devised two preparations for the competition: a meat platter using Irish beef and a fish dish using turbot.” […]
Reading: “Here’s How France Won the Bocuse d’Or 2013”
“Sweet potatoes most likely were carried to Polynesia well before the Spanish took the native Andean crop with them on voyages.” Read More: http://foodmuseum.com/entries/agriculture/sweet-potatoes-traveled-far-early
Reading: “Sweet Potatoes Traveled Far, Early”
“With the Super Bowl around the corner, it seems that buffalo chicken wings may have become the country’s favorite football-watching food.” Read More: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2013/02/a-brief-history-of-the-buffalo-chicken-wing/