For the past 8 years, Chitra has been working in digital advertising and marketing while always making time to pursue her passion in cooking. Chitra writes the food blog, The ABCD’s of Cooking, which chronicles her adventures cooking American Born Confused Desi recipes and hosts an online cooking show and a supper club featuring Indian-inspired cuisine. She also teaches cooking classes from her tiny kitchen and sells Indian street foods (sometimes yummy Indian tacos!) at events and artisanal markets in Brooklyn. Chitra is an advocate for food education and volunteers for organizations such as Slow Food, The Children's Storefront, Just Food and Added Value Farms.

Evernote Food Allows Users to Document Recipes and Restaurants

Evernote, the app that helps people “remember everything,” recently launched Evernote Food to help people record their food experiences.

Foodfolio: A Recipe Aggregator For You & Your Grandma

What attracted me to Foodfolio is that it is being used by grandmothers and mothers who want to preserve their recipes for the next generation. And if Foodfolio is helping that cause, I’m all for it. Meet Ehab Bandar, founder of Foodfolio, a social recipe website that allows you to aggregate and organize recipes from websites across the web, from family members, and from people you follow on the website. The design is clean, visual and very easy to use

Lilly’s Table: Meal Plan Subscription Service Makes Local, Seasonal Eating Easy

Lilly’s Table, a weekly subscription service that offers seasonal recipes and meal plans, is the brainchild of a former personal chef, Lilly Steirer.  Her idea is very near and dear to my heart, as a member of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and a frequent shopper at local farmer’s markets.  Lilly’s Table makes it easier

Social Tables: Bringing the Social Network to Events

Meet Dan Berger and Matt Tendler, co-founders of Social Tables, a newly launched social networking site geared towards both event planners and event guests. I was first introduced to Dan by a common friend who thought it may be interesting to use his site for a supper club that I run.  I found that Social Tables is not

Digital Platform Helps a Garden Grow in the South Bronx

Meet Ying Guo founder of Growing Gardens Growing Kids, a pilot project in the South Bronx aimed at teaching kids how to grow fresh produce. Ying is currently leveraging a customizable website and social media support provided to her by Pando Projects to bring her idea to fruition.

SXSW Food & Tech Session Wrap-Up

Last week, Jas and I moderated a core conversation at SXSW entitled How Technology is Revolutionizing the Way We Eat. In this forum, the audience was encouraged to participate and share. We had a great turnout from individuals at the Food Network, Martha Stewart to IDEO and developers of new technologies and apps in the