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Putting your money where your mouth is

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Dec 15, 2009, 1:34 pm
image courtesy of Saving with Shellie Blame Thoreau. In the mid 1800’s he engaged in an experiment in simple living and self-reliance, moving into a small, self-built cabin on an isolated piece...
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Food Gone Wrong

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Dec 12, 2009, 1:25 pm
Kanye Wurst courtesy of Food’lebrities Food can be funny. Cake Wrecks tapped into this big time. Documenting the sad, silly, creepy, and inappropriate from the world of professional baking, th...
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Pomegranates are here to stay

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Dec 10, 2009, 12:31 pm
It took a few centuries, but it looks like the pomegranate has finally gone mainstream. There are few foods that can match the pomegranate for cultural power and mystique. Pomegranates inspired poets...
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Tweet 'n Eat

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Dec 8, 2009, 1:23 pm
image courtesy of City Food Magazine Are you a Twitter skeptic? Have you been slow to warm to the charms of microblogging? We all know the pitfalls: the time-sucking potential; the relentless strea...
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Crazy for Infographics

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Dec 7, 2009, 11:58 am
Infographics are hot! Infographics have moved well beyond the food pyramid. Visual representations of data and information are the perfect tool for our time. They’re like shorthand that cuts thr...
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Gingerbread Houses 2009

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Dec 3, 2009, 2:19 pm
What’s up with gingerbread houses in 2009? Plenty, it seems. Gingerbread houses have gone green and organic, like the 10
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Trend Watching 2010

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Dec 1, 2009, 1:06 pm
image via Free Republic It’s that time of year. We look back at this past year and ahead to the next. The media are full of lists enumerating the best and worst of 2009 and prophesizng the tr...
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Cool Coffee for a Hot Planet

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 27, 2009, 1:05 pm
There’s fair trade and organic coffee, shade-grown, and even bird-friendly. You can drink it in a recycled cup with organic soy milk and sugar from plants that haven’t been genetically alt...
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Let the Games Begin!

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 23, 2009, 1:03 pm
// Foodie Gamers. Who knew that was a demographic?! Apparently they are out there. The Food Network is hoping to captivate them with its first foray into video gaming. I’ll confess that I...
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Casting Call: So you think you can cook

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 20, 2009, 11:55 am
image courtesy of Eat Me Daily 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 ca...
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The Champagne Bubble

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 19, 2009, 11:56 am
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 ...
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Do You Eat Like a Conservative or a Liberal?

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 17, 2009, 9:59 am
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 Mo...
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Buzzkill: FDA looks to ban caffeinated alcohol beverages

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 16, 2009, 11:55 am
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 ...
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Flavor Tripping

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 12, 2009, 9:17 am
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 ...
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Do the Math: You need to eat more chocolate.

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 11, 2009, 10:57 am
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 c...
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Such a deal!

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 10, 2009, 6:45 am
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 chan...
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Community Supported Foods

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 9, 2009, 8:35 am
It started with Community Supported Agriculture. CSA programs invite consumers to buy advance shares of a local farm’s harvest. Each week of the growing season shares of the harvest are distrib...
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Agriculture's crown jewels

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 6, 2009, 8:54 am
700 miles from the North Pole, tucked away in a sandstone cavern in a frozen, Arctic mountain, is the making of future dinners. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in early 2008 as a sort of back-u...
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Cracking the Code: Egg Essentials

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 4, 2009, 7:37 am
Are you uneasy in the egg aisle? You’re not alone. Egg cartons are plastered with stamps and seals and jargon-filled labeling: authority over egg-production standards is shared by a web of fed...
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A bone of contention

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Nov 2, 2009, 1:38 pm
Infographic courtesy of Good Magazine Just try to sort out the information on fish. It’s undeniably healthy: low in saturated fats, high in essential fatty acids, and an excellent source of pr...
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Must love sandwiches

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 31, 2009, 10:34 am
Sexy ovo-lacto vegetarian on the hunt for the perfect creme brulee. - ad courtesy of TuttiPersonals/TuttiFoodie.com Would you date someone who doesn’t like Chinese Food? Or chocolate? Or wine?...
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The "healthy" new mini Coke

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 29, 2009, 10:30 am
. “The Coca-Cola mini can innovation reinforces the Company’s support for healthy, active lifestyles.” . Sandy Douglas, President, Coca-Cola North America Pardon my cynicism, b...
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Message in a bottle (140 characters or less)

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 27, 2009, 9:39 am
Twitter is launching a wine label. The micro-blogging social media site is venturing into wine making as a side project and charitable endeavor. Twitter has partnered with Crushpad, a DIY winery and...
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A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a meat eater in a Prius

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 26, 2009, 1:00 pm
That’s the assertion made by author and food activist Michael Pollan while speaking on a panel as part of last weekend’s PopTech 2009 conference. What a notion! The EPA estimates that ...
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Whatever will you name your bacon?

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 23, 2009, 7:50 am
A documentary film about ice cream trucks. A graduate student who would rather be making chocolate. A sculptor who wants to cast endangered apple varieties in porcelain. These are some of the projec...
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Gourmet, Unbound: an online celebration of a magazine's legacy

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 22, 2009, 11:30 am
The food world has been reeling from the shock. On October 5, 2009 Condé Nast announced that Gourmet will cease monthly publication due to a decline in advertising sales and shifting food interests...
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Making Sense of the Sugar Wars

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 21, 2009, 10:19 am
ad courtesy of the Center for Consumer Freedom The Corn Refiners Association is causing quite a stir with its print ads and television commercials pushing an image makeover for high fructose corn syr...
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What recession? A girl's got to eat.

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 15, 2009, 10:27 pm
The economy might be slowing, but not our appetites. We’re not eating any less, but we have made budget-driven adjustments to what we eat, how we shop, and where we are having our meals. Most ...
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Cupcakes: the clock is ticking for their 15 minutes.

Gigabiting posted an article on Gigabiting - Oct 14, 2009, 10:54 pm
It’s a classic tale of American-style capitalism. A good idea, a new business model. There’s some revenue and a whole lot of buzz. The funding starts to trickle in. There’s critical...
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About Me

Food– love it. Love everything about it.

Technology– the jury’s still out. But there is no denying the impact it’s had on how we eat.Gigabiting.com will bring you the latest news and tips from the online world of food. Posts will be sometimes useful, sometimes informative, and always entertaining. Together, we can learn to love technology. And really, wouldn’t you rather get tech tips from a foodie than food recommendations from a techie?!

Gigabiting.com is based in Philadelphia– a better food town than you probably think.

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