Posts Tagged ‘cooking’

This is one of the hottest summers America has ever seen and YouTuber Jeremiah Warren is taking advantage of the heat wave and doing a little cooking…in his car!

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The U.S. Memorial Day holiday is only three days away, and for many it marks the beginning of summer and related activities like grilling. Omaha Steak has released apps for the iPhone and Android phones that provides a ton of information useful for grilling steak.

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 [...]

Just when you thought the rise of vowel-phobic domain names was yesterday’s news, a new one gets cooked up.

Cookstr offers up 200 star chefs, cookbook authors and publishers, all sharing their recipes and culinary expertise.. Unlike sites that allow any ‘chef’ to share their instructions on how to make ‘perfect grilled cheese,’ this site limits the noise by only allowing industry ‘rock stars’ to post. Current participants include Naked Chef Jamie Oliver, PBS mainstay Jacques Pepin and the immortal Julia Child. Read more

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