When I was a young whipper-snapper my mom normally didn’t have to tell me to stop playing with my food, but that was not the case for my younger sisters. The two of them would construct swimming pools out their…
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Culinary Code
Codifying culinary information into mathematical equations is how Watson, the IBM supercomputer than won Jeopardy, comes up with delicious dishes like Swiss-Thai asparagus quiche and an Austrian chocolate burrito. IBM collaborated with the Institute of Culinary Education to build a…
Roaming Hunger Brings You Closer to Japanese Hotdogs
So just last weekend, I was in Seattle for a conference when I came across a group of food trucks offering all different kinds of delicious food. If you aren’t familiar with food trucks, they are exactly what they sound…
Supercook.com Analysis: Searching for Recipes by Ingredients
Have you ever looked in your pantry at dinner-time, and drawn an inspirational blank? Have some ingredients that have been sitting around a little too long and you aren’t sure how to use them? A new recipe concept has emerged…
Pinterest Crafting: Not Gone Wrong
I have only ever seen one person actually sit down and read a cookbook. These days a recipe is not normally found through flipping through the pages, but through browsing the pages of the Internet, using a specific tool: Pinterest.…
Seeing Your Food Through f/2.8
There are two things that have always inspired me: food and photography. My inspirations led me to Vanessa Rees’ website, which offers recipes and photographs of those recipes prepared. Rees won the 2013 Savuer Best Food Blog Award for her…