Food and the media have long gone together — just think cooking shows, Martha Stewart, and the zillion food and wine magazines out there. But food and social media is an even tastier combination. These days, whether you’re interested in food trends, inspiring recipes, or personality chefs, tweets are a hot spot for information, especially when you check out these 20 Twitter users. Read more
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Maybe it’s all of my Top Chef and Hell’s Kitchen watching, but I feel the need to dish out the juice on GigaChef, a new Website designed by professional chefs that aims to connect cooks.
With an estimated six million employees, the food service industry can definitely use a social network of its own. Since many chefs are worried about slicing and dicing, they don’t have time to learn the ins and outs of technology. To this end, GigaChef purposely keeps the site’s functionality simple. Read more
The ever-popular music streaming Website Pandora has built its success largely on the Music Genome Project, using hundreds of attributes to describe songs and a complex mathematical algorithm to organize them.
Now the recipe for the perfect meal is complete with Cookthink, a culinary resource that’s main ingredient is the Recipe Mapping Project. Much like Pandora, Cookthink has created a database that breaks down the components of each recipe, analyzing dozens of characteristics about what goes into a dish – what it tastes like, smells like, feels like, and how it makes you feel to eat it. Read more
