Foodandtell is not supposed to be about me. But I have to share this early moment I found on Youtube, featuring a very young me, frowning at ice cream in a 1985 Mother’s Pizza commercial. I am still repeating the performance in restaurants nightly.
Google released their yearly Zeitgeist detailing the year’s searches with an improved visual interface. Below are the fastest rising search terms in Food & Drink, which aside from cupcakes and guacamole show a keen common interest in not much.
Fastest Rising Search Terms in Food & Drink
masterchef
食べログ
cupcakes
jimmy johns
как жрать суши
dominos [...]
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen! Scanwiches. Let’s start scanning everything!
Foursquare is augmented reality crossed with social networking in the form of a game. And at the end of the day, what you get is a pretty cool user-contributed city guide, lost somewhere beneath a childish and enthusiastic mobile app.
Zagat has now thrown in with the Foursquare guys in their quest to stay relevant in [...]
Forget the urbanspoon city ranking. If you want to find some food writers on steroids, check out the wefollow foodie rankings. Even if posting to twitter isn’t your idea of fun, you are bound to find some fun content via these great twits.
The first annual Tasty Awards were held on Thursday in San Francisco, honouring the web’s best in food and fashion. New awards shows are another sign that food is taking over the web.
OFFICIAL HONOREE AWARDS
Person of the Year Award
Anthony Bourdain
Tastemaker of the Year Award
Gary Vaynerchuk
Pioneer Awards
Martin Yan, Paul Prudhomme, YouTube
Lifetime Achievement Award
Alton Brown, Jacque Pepin
Outstanding [...]
Following on Youtube’s revelation that most users rate the occasional video as 1/5 stars and the rest as 5/5 stars, Yelp did an analysis of their restaurant reviews (pictured). With most restaurants “excellent” this renders the metric fairly useless for helping you decide where to eat. It raises the question: do people prefer to [...]
Christopher shows us his “very nice pears” and displays some cooking chops, perhaps the least likely performance fit for the food network. I would have expected him to cook with pineapple.
this is more what i would have imagined
Thanks Lindsay (you rock) !!
Montrealer Nadia Giosia has scored a deal with the Food Network, after a year of spectacular audience growth for her youtube-based cooking show, Bitchin’ Kitchen. Sporting quirky humour and numerous tattoos, Nadia works her spunky appeal while drawing on her Italian roots to serve up simple, gourmet meals with a smirk. At first glance I [...]
Admiring the burger has come a long way recently, first with Padma’s Sordid Bacon Cheeseburger Sex Tape.”, and now with this burger Rolodex, that may be pure marketing, but it’s still 100% burger. I can’t say why its so much fun to flip the rolodex, but it is. Enjoy!
via urbandiner.ca