Archive for Category: "Recipes / Cooking"

Zokos Aims to Feed Hunger for Real Life Interaction

Zokos Aims to Feed Hunger for Real Life Interaction

Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life – over food- by reducing what they have identified as the “barriers to entertaining.” Last week, the Brooklyn-based startup launched their first tool, a platform designed to help hosts manage an event and share the costs with their guests

What Condé Nast’s Ziplist Acquisition Means for the Startup’s 6.5K “Partners”

What Condé Nast’s Ziplist Acquisition Means for the Startup’s 6.5K “Partners”

What publisher Condé Nast has acquisition of Ziplist means for the future of their existing 6,500 food partner websites and blogs.

Innovator Video: Siansplan.com Aims to Simplify Meal Planning & Reduce Food Waste

Innovator Video: Siansplan.com Aims to Simplify Meal Planning & Reduce Food Waste

Siansplan.com is a new a new meal planning tool designed to help families make cooking and shopping easy, fun and more efficient

Infographic of the Week: Open Source Framework for Cooking

Infographic of the Week: Open Source Framework for Cooking

Studiofeast explores new approaches to cooking based on dish structure, rather than traditional recipe format. They believe this will result in a much more fulfilling experience in the kitchen.

Innovator Video: Design For America Healthy Food (Access) Project

Innovator Video: Design For America Healthy Food (Access) Project

How can human centered design encourage healthier food choices in “food deserts”

Yummly’s Billion Dollar Digital Kitchen Platform

Yummly’s Billion Dollar Digital Kitchen Platform

Armed with a dream investment team, and $6 million in Series A Funding, semantic recipe website Yummly is getting ready to build the world’s first ‘digital kitchen platform.’

My Robotic Kitchen Planned This Dinner Party at SXSW

My Robotic Kitchen Planned This Dinner Party at SXSW

This post outlines the rough prototype of a dinner planning app built r to customize, scale, and shop for a menu, then organize all of the required steps into one master to-do list.

James Beard’s Mitchell Davis on What a Better Food System Tastes Like [Video]

James Beard’s Mitchell Davis on What a Better Food System Tastes Like [Video]

In this video from TEDxManhattan, James Beard Foundation Executive Vice President Mitchell Davis talks about taste as a powerful tool for social change.

Innovator Series: Mihir Desai of Cross (X) Species Adventure Club on Hacking the Food System [Video]

Innovator Series: Mihir Desai of Cross (X) Species Adventure Club on Hacking the Food System [Video]

In this Innovator Series Video, Mihir Desai of Cross (X) Species Adventure Club talks of using science in our everyday lives to hack the food system

Cheese? Lobster? What Would Your Last Meal Be? [Infographic]

Cheese? Lobster? What Would Your Last Meal Be? [Infographic]

“You’re about to die, what’s your last meal?” Anyone who signs up for Studiofeast’s mailing list must answer this question. At the end of the year, the cooking collective then hosts a Last Meal dinner inspired by the responses.

2012 Food Trends Get Technical

2012 Food Trends Get Technical

Speculation on 2012′s food trends are everywhere, from the newest “ethnic flavors” to the next super berry.  But more interesting are the ways experts see technology playing a role in the food industry and how it will help consumers in the marketplace. Over the past few weeks, Food+Tech Connect analyzed three important food+tech trends of

The Flavor Wars

The Flavor Wars

In 1992, chefs Heston Blumenthal and Francois Benzi came up with a “food pairing hypothesis.” Now an article in Scientific Reports disputes the foodpairing concept.

Evernote Food Allows Users to Document Recipes and Restaurants

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.

2011 Trends: Recipe Websites, Apps, & Publishing

2011 Trends: Recipe Websites, Apps, & Publishing

home cooking experience is undergoing dramatic changes, in part thanks to the iPad, e-book readers and mobile phones. This trends report offers a detailed look at the world of recipes in 2011 and our predictions for what’s to come

Mining Allrecipes.com’s Ingredient Networks for Recipe Recommendations

Mining Allrecipes.com’s Ingredient Networks for Recipe Recommendations

A new study analyzes Allrecipe.com’s 46,337 recipes, 1,976,920 user reviews, and data from about 530,609 users to understand the fundamentals of cooking and user preferences.