Gigabiting
Blog URL http://gigabiting.com
Located Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Tags food, technology, cooking, sustainability, social media, phone apps, green, local, gadgets
Where food meets culture and technology.
Latest Blog Posts
- Casting Call: So you think you can cook on Nov 20, 2009 in Entertainment diversions games reality tv
Be a chef. Or just play one on TV. There are no secrets to getting yourself cast on a reality TV cooking show. You need to check a few websites to learn about open casting calls and applications for auditions. Often this information is posted with ve...
- The Champagne Bubble on Nov 19, 2009 in food business shopping wine agriculture recession
Champagne has always been prone to cycles of boom and bust. It takes many long years for production to be established, but demand fluctuates with the vagaries of the economy. Earlier this decade the Champagne industry saw three straight years of reco...
- Do You Eat Like a Conservative or a Liberal? on Nov 17, 2009 in food trends social media dining Obama
Remember the defining moment in the 2008 election? In the still wide field of Democratic presidential candidates, the senator from Illinois strode into a Rural Issues Forum on a farm outside of Des Moines, Iowa and asked this question: Anybody gone i...
- Buzzkill: FDA looks to ban caffeinated alcohol beverages on Nov 16, 2009 in Uncategorized food business food safety beer caffeine diversions
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration notified a few dozen beverage manufacturers that they have 30 days to provide evidence that beverages with added caffeine and alcohol do not pose a risk to health or safety. While singly the substances are...
- Flavor Tripping on Nov 12, 2009 in Entertainment trends diversions food games
Let’s get some of those miracle berries. About a year ago synsepalum dulcificum, known as the miracle fruit or miracle berry made some ripples in the food press. In case you missed the story the first time around, these are berries that rewire...
- Do the Math: You need to eat more chocolate. on Nov 11, 2009 in Health chocolate diet diversions
Just in case you needed another excuse, the list of benefits from chocolate keeps getting longer. For years medical studies have been telling us that dark chocolate can be good for our health. But can chocolate really make us better at math? In a nut...
- Such a deal! on Nov 10, 2009 in Web 2.0 food business shopping social media diversions local
Wheeling a shopping cart through Costco piled high with enormous bottles of olive oil and 24 can cases of tuna fish. That’s what most of us think of buying in bulk. Groupon is looking to change that with its bargain-hunting meets social media...
