Do you like cooking? Do you wonder what Ben Huh, Dennis Crowley, Craig Newmark, and Dan Ariely would cook for you if they came to your home to prepare a 100-course meal? Well, wonder no more, thanks to the official SXSW Cookbook! I'm a contributor to this one, included in the mix of past South […]
Category: Food and Drink
Bacon Brownies: The Video
You may recall a post last year on baking bacon brownies. At work, we had an international pot luck lunch, so I made the brownies again, and a video explaining why they fit in with an international event: You can view photos here:
Talk to Strangers – and Listen
Originally published in MediaPost's Social Media Insider The famous chicken and waffle brunch at Birch & Barley How old were you when you first learned not to talk to strangers? It's one of those rules parents try to instill at an early age, right up there with eating vegetables and not watching TV before finishing […]
Bacon Brownies – Behind the Scenes with a Bacony, Chocolatey Recipe
This is a little off topic for this blog, but after about 20 comments and counting on photos I posted on Facebook, I had to share a few details on what I was up to this weekend. I was invited to a dinner party, and the host, knowing my sweet tooth, asked if I'd bring dessert. First, […]
Deconstructing Foodspotting
Originally published in MediaPost's Social Media Insider Deconstructing Foodspotting If you were going to create a new application or tool to take advantage of the current trends in social media, what elements would you include? Add your thoughts in the comments, but I'll share my wish list. First, there should be some mobile component, […]
Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Peeps: One More Reason to Believe in Easter, if Just for the Candy
Full disclosure: the product featured here was sent to me by a friend. Fuller disclosure: he wasn’t asking me to blog about these at all. He just had some inside information about the latest Peeps product and knew I loved this kind of stuff. I’m really just blogging it for fun. And since the product’s […]
Social Media Week Panel: Milk, Cookies, and Social Media at Whole Foods
One of the closing events of Social Media Week took included snack time at a grocery store, as Whole Foods presented Afternoon Snack: A New York New Food Media Panel. On the menu were: Liza Mosquito de Guia, Founder & Chief Storyteller, food. curated. Cathy Erway, Not Eating Out In New York. Nick Fauchald, editor-in-chief, […]
Social Brands In The City Of Angels
Originally published in MediaPost A yummy Yucatanian spread at Chichen Itza in South LA, which we found in Zagat Social Brands In The City Of Angels I swore this would be a vacation. It was so weird taking a cab to JFK and not asking for a receipt, but I was ready to embrace it. […]
The Truck Stops Here
Here's today's Social Media Insider, originally published in MediaPost. Photo credit: Me. In the future, will all of our restaurants turn into roving trucks? You may not ask yourself that question every day, but answering it will reveal a few things about the evolution of social media. This megatrend of trucks serving gourmet food is […]
Steve Rubel: Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media at iMedia Breakthrough
Steve Rubel, SVP, Director of Insights, Edelman Digital, as presented at the iMedia Breakthrough Summit today: 7 Deadly Sins of Social Media 1) Lust: Don’t go lusting after the hot social network. Find the right fit. 2) Gluttony: Don’t just go everywhere when you don’t have bandwidth. Start small. Don’t overdo it. Technorati Tags: mediasummit,imedia,steve […]