Gigabiting
where food meets culture and technology
Gigabiting
- Location
- Philadelphia, US
- Birthday
- September 28
- Bio
- Having fulfilled one of my life's ambitions by starting a food blog, I have turned my attention to another- figuring out how to make a living with the blog.
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you can visit me at www.gigabiting.com
MY RECENT POSTS
- Superhero or Villain? It’s
the Martha Stewart Comic Book
August 17, 2012 01:46PM - Shouldn’t Robots Be Serving
Us Dinner By Now?
August 15, 2012 02:38PM - Paul Ryan: Definitely Not a
Foodie…
August 13, 2012 12:46PM - Rich or Thin? Pick One
August 09, 2012 04:37PM - Bad tippers take note.
They’re naming names.
August 07, 2012 01:25PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Robin,
Little-k
nown Gigabiting trivia- 1/2
Canadian-
Toronto/father's
side.”
July 30, 2010 04:00PM - “I remember an incident
when my young son came home
baffled by
the treatment he
ha…”
July 30, 2010 02:16PM - “Linda,
I am
well-versed on the mighty
Timbit!
And personally, I
am totally
pulling…”
July 30, 2010 02:12PM - “How about a ski trip
instead?”
July 28, 2010 03:12PM - “is it too late to wish
you a bon voyage?”
July 28, 2010 12:54PM
Gigabiting's Links
JUNE 15, 2012 1:18PM
YOU Try Living on $2.13 an Hour
If you thought that the federal minimum wage was rock bottom
on the pay scale, think again. There’s something called the
subminimum wage for tipped restaurant workers, and it’s a
staggeringly stingy $2.13. It’s no big surprise that poverty
[...]
JUNE 14, 2012 10:56AM
Your Recommended Daily Allowance of Food Trivia
Have you had your daily dose of trivia? Today
we’re serving up a big bowl of smarty pants. You’ll be
the life of the party with this stockpile of facts, or maybe just
the world’s leading authority of
[...]
JUNE 13, 2012 4:25PM
It’s Not Beer; It’s Wine on Tap
Don’t sneer. Don’t condescend. Just belly up to
the bar for a cold one drawn straight from the tap. Proponents of
the draft wine trend swear that tasting is believing. Kegged wine
is nothing new. It’s been common in [...]
JUNE 12, 2012 2:15PM
Celebrity Coffee Brands: Not Your Average Joe
Any self-respecting consumer of pop culture knows it:
celebrities love coffee. Peruse the photos of a supermarket tabloid
and you’ll find ample proof. Undersized fashion models with
oversized lattes, LA actresses cooling off from yoga class with
their post-Vinyasa
[...]
JUNE 11, 2012 1:33PM
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Tweet Everything You Eat
Who gives a tweet? Time Magazine calls them ‘contented
little burps’. In GQ, the comedian Patton Oswalt
characterized them less kindly as ‘bowel movement
prequels.’ 340 million tweets are generated every day, and
sometimes it feels like they’re all
[...]
JUNE 8, 2012 1:45PM
Food Tastes Different in Noisy Restaurants
image via Synergy Consultants . A widely circulated study reported
in the journal Food Quality and Preference concluded that
background noise affects the taste of food. We didn’t need a
study to tell us. Drink a glass of wine in
[...]
JUNE 7, 2012 12:06PM
Sriracha-holics Anonymous
[images: The Oatmeal, Corvossalus, Food Beast, Cafe
Press, The Sriracha Cookbook Blog, Jessica Hische] It started out
innocently enough: a squirt in the stir fry, a dab added to
[...]
JUNE 5, 2012 12:07PM
Things You Can Do With Marshmallows
In a world without marshmallows, Rice Krispies would be strictly a
breakfast food, never a treat. There’d be no Moon Pies,
Mallomars, or Rocky Road ice cream. Yams would be a lot less
candied, and Lucky Charms would need some [...]
JUNE 4, 2012 11:47AM
It’s Not Online Dating. It’s Social Pairing.
Socialize with your social network? What a concept.
Social pairing takes all those profiles and all that location-based
data and creates real-world connections. KLM lets you choose your
airplane seatmate from LinkedIn or Facebook, and Ticketmaster does
the [...]
JUNE 1, 2012 11:02AM
The Dark Side of Goat Cheese: Killing the Billies
It’s the dirty little secret of the dairy goat
industry. Most male kids are killed at birth and their carcasses
are tossed out as waste. Birds and bees on the goat farm Male goats
serve little purpose on a
[...]
MAY 30, 2012 9:10AM
The New Hybrids: Anarchy in a Fruit Bowl
This week a New Zealand grower is launching the papple. A
tasty but disconcerting eating experience, you look at it and say
‘apple,’ and then proceed to bite rather harder than
necessary into its mottled apple-shaped exterior. The flesh
[...]
MAY 29, 2012 11:22AM
Foods That Fill You Up: The Satiety Index
You know the saying that we feel hungry soon after eating
Chinese food? It turns out that there is truth to it. According to
the satiety index, steamed rice or Chinese noodles have less than
half the filling power [...]
MAY 25, 2012 1:02PM
Take This Vitamin and You’ll Remember Your Dreams
Every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which
has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in
the mental activities of waking life. –SIGMUND FREUD, The
Interpretation of Dreams Do you put much stock
[...]
MAY 24, 2012 12:39PM
A Book Club is as Good as a Health Club: Highbrow is Lowfat
The heath community is baffled by this one: a massive 17
nation study shows that leisure time readers are thinner than
non-readers. Same for museum, theater, and movie-goers. In fact an
interest in ideas, art, and knowledge is associated
[...]
MAY 23, 2012 4:46PM
Can a Restaurant Refuse to Serve You Because of Your Politics or Lifestyle? In a word: yes.
No shirt, no shoes, no service; we’re all familiar with that.
You’re not barefoot or half-naked, so you should be good to
go. Race, religion or national origin. We know that the Civil
Rights Act protects us from those forms
[...]
MAY 21, 2012 1:22PM
Facial Recognition Advertising: They’re watching you watching them
image via CEPro Facial recognition: once the stuff of
science fiction and high-tech crime fighting, it’s become the
latest tool in marketing. Picture this: you walk by a digital sign
in the supermarket and up pops an ad touting
[...]
MAY 18, 2012 12:09PM
Campaign Swag: It’s Obama by a Landslide
You know the Presidential election season is in full swing because
both candidates have flung open the doors to their campaign
merchandise shopping sites. Obviously you’re making a
statement when you wear an Obama t-shirt or slap a Romney bumper
[...]
MAY 16, 2012 12:10PM
Should You Be Buying Your Groceries Online?
Clicks or Bricks: which is cheaper, easier, greener? Who
wouldn’t want to cut out all those trips to the supermarket?
Hopefully you’ve already cut way back, with a larger portion
of your food coming from farmers markets and other local
[...]
MAY 15, 2012 2:42PM
Intermarriage and the Price of Skirt Steak
One in seven marriages in the United States is between
spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. That was
the big news earlier this year when the Pew Research Center
released its Social and Demographic Trends
[...]
MAY 14, 2012 1:31PM
Shameless Act of Product Placement: James Bond Will Drink Heineken
Everyone’s got their price. Apparently James Bond’s is
$45 million. That’s the rumored value of the marketing deal
with Heineken that turns Daniel Craig’s James Bond into a
beer guy. Vodka martinis have always been James Bond’s
signature drink. Ian
[...]
MAY 11, 2012 10:17AM
Obama, Clooney & You: Menu Revealed
The event was officially known as Obama, Clooney & You. It was
alternatively dubbed Starmageddon. I don’t know about you,
but this is what Obama and Clooney had for dinner: artichoke salad
roasted duckling ‘Peking style’ with tiny steamed buns.
[...]
MAY 10, 2012 12:33PM
The Cone is Always King but Ice Cream Sandwiches are the Trendier Choice
It’s shaping up as the summer of the ice cream
sandwich. We’ve seen it before with cupcakes, whoopie pies,
and donuts. Now ice cream sandwiches are the latest humble,
familiar snack to get the upscale treatment. The classic slab
[...]
MAY 9, 2012 1:57PM
1 in 10 Americans is Employed by a Restaurant
Forget about manufacturing, healthcare, and technology; the
real jobs are in food. According to the National Restaurant
Association, restaurants have added more than 560,000 jobs in the
past year, with 200,000 of those positions created in the last six
[...]
MAY 8, 2012 1:24PM
Behold the Round Saltine
Round Saltines have been showing up on supermarket shelves
throughout New England. After a century of quadrilaterality,
Nabisco is test-marketing the new geometry. If it’s well
received in the region, there could be a national roll out by the
end [...]
MAY 7, 2012 3:27PM
Cool New Cooling Gadgets
How do you cool the drinks when it’s hot outside? Mankind has
wrestled with this one from the beginning of time. From fire and
ice, radiation and resistance, to exothermic and endothermic
reactions, we’ve tried it all. We’ve put a [...]
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