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
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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
AUGUST 17, 2012 1:46PM
Superhero or Villain? It’s the Martha Stewart Comic Book
Better than a Winston CVap oven and a set of Misono knives; comic
books and graphic novels are shaping up as the hot chef accessory
of the season. Martha Stewart’s got one. So does, Anthony
Bourdain, Iron Chef Chris Cosentino,
[...]
AUGUST 15, 2012 2:38PM
Shouldn’t Robots Be Serving Us Dinner By Now?
(Rosie from The Jetsons; WA-7 from Dex’s Diner, Star Wars II
Attack of the Clones; robot Woody Allen from
Sleeper;Â Mr. Waiter concept design) Where are our
kitchen robots? From Isaac Asimov to The Stepford Wives,
there’s been the fantasy of
[...]
AUGUST 13, 2012 12:46PM
Paul Ryan: Definitely Not a Foodie…
…but yes, he did drive the Oscar Mayer
Wienermobile. As always, here at Gigabiting, we look at our world
through the lens of food. Mitt Romney’s announcement of Paul
Ryan as his running mate posed a bit of [...]
AUGUST 9, 2012 4:37PM
Rich or Thin? Pick One
How did rich and fat become rich and thin? We tend to forget
that this has not always been so. Richer, thinner, smarter. What if
you could change one thing about yourself. Which would
you choose? A recent Harris Poll [...]
AUGUST 7, 2012 1:25PM
Bad tippers take note. They’re naming names.
Do you tip a straight 15%? Do you bump it up to 20% or more
for really good service? Not to worry; you should be in the clear.
If you are rude, if you are demanding, if you totally [...]
JULY 31, 2012 12:29PM
Hot Tea on a Hot Day: Friend or Foe?
It’s hot out there. How about a nice cold drink? You
hear the clink of ice cubes in a tall glass, see the beads of sweat
condensing on the outside, and you just know you’re in for
some serious [...]
JULY 30, 2012 3:07PM
They Call Themselves ‘The Opposite of Yelp’
It seems like everyone is on Yelp. And by everyone we
mean the uninformed, the unqualified, and the perpetrators of
unchecked spelling and grammar. Yelp struck a blow for democracy.
The user-submitted reviews—60 million and
counting—turned us all [...]
JULY 27, 2012 2:17PM
How Big is Your Cupholder?
Car radios have come and gone. Ditto for pop-out lighters
and GPS systems. But cup holders are forever. Yes kids, cars really
used to come without cup holders. As indispensable as they’ve
become, it’s hard to believe that manufacturers [...]
JULY 26, 2012 1:57PM
The Frozen Drinks of Summer: More Fat than a Pint of 1/2 and 1/2
We used to know where we stood with our frozen drinks: A milkshake
was a stand-in for an ice cream dessert when you
didn’t feel like a cone. Smoothies were a
nutritious meal replacement for the health and fitness crowd.
[...]
JULY 23, 2012 2:39PM
The Sports Drink Industry has a Nice Bridge in Brooklyn to Sell You
Is Gatorade just, as the British press put it, lolly water?
Every 8-year old with a soccer ball knows that you have to stay
hydrated. They hear it from parents and gym teachers, coaches and
pediatricians. They’re taught to
[...]
JULY 20, 2012 12:44PM
5 Brain Foods That Really Work
We’re having a national senior moment. Baby boomers,
those born between 1946 and 1964, are a demographic time bomb.
Making up nearly one-third of the population, they’ve reached
the age of memory loss, slowed reflexes, and synaptic glitches.
That’s [...]
JULY 19, 2012 4:00PM
It’s a Hamburger Nation, and We’re Just Living in It
 Hamburger America, the film, the book, the
blog, the photo gallery, the app We’re not just a hamburger
nation; we’re a bigger and a better hamburger nation than we
were just a few short years ago. We have burger
[...]
JULY 18, 2012 12:31PM
The Strange Diets that Fuel Olympic Athletes
The elite athlete is a finely-tuned machine. It starts with
good genes. There are years of training and conditioning. Coaching
and facilities are top-notch. And of course nutrition, which fuels
the energy and stamina needed to achieve peak performance,
[...]
JULY 16, 2012 2:26PM
Fast Food Workers Tell Us: These are the Menu Items You Don’t Want to Eat
A Reddit user posed the question: What is the one menu
option at your employment that you would recommend people never
eat? In the first 24 hours, more than 6,000 restaurant workers
responded. They warned us of vegetarian items
[...]
JULY 13, 2012 12:13PM
Things to Do (and one thing not to do) with Kool-Aid
 Look at all the things you can do with Kool-Aid: You
can make lip gloss It takes just a little Vaseline, a little honey,
and enough Kool-Aid to get the right shade. Clean a toilet
Lemon and orange flavors
[...]
JULY 11, 2012 12:25PM
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Not this year, Billy Boy, Billy Boy. Three-fourths of the
nation’s tart cherries—the kind baked into
pies and cooked into jam—come from Michigan, and
the latest report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts
that virtually all of Michigan’s [...]
JULY 10, 2012 10:26AM
How to Eat Roadkill
Should we eat roadkill? In theory, it’s an excellent
exercise in ethics, environmentalism, and self-reliance. Why leave
it to rot when you can take it home and cook it for dinner?
According to PETA, roadkill is a better choice [...]
JULY 9, 2012 4:29PM
Fast Food Chains Push Soda for Breakfast
The vaguely mimosa-like Mountain Dew A.M. Some rules really
aren’t made to be broken. Like the one about eating a healthy
breakfast. It’s not like it’s one of the Geneva
Conventions, but this is important stuff none the less. [...]
JULY 2, 2012 9:17AM
A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Monk Walk Into a Burger Joint.
No joke, the trio was there to remove a curse. Holy water was
sprinkled, the four corners received a Buddhist blessing, and a
mezuzah was installed in the doorway. The new tenant, New York
Burger Company, wasn’t taking any chances;
[...]
JUNE 27, 2012 12:07PM
Don’t Give Away Your ‘Like’ Button
The Facebook ‘like’ button is perhaps the most
valuable technological innovation of the last few decades.
It’s the keys to the kingdom, the feature that turns social
networks into something more than the sum of its users, the revenue
[...]
JUNE 26, 2012 5:31PM
Are You a Coffee Person or a Tea Person?
Tea is the most popular beverage on the planet. But not in
the U.S. where it’s way down the list behind soda, coffee,
beer, and milk. Industry experts still point to the Boston Tea
Party to explain this cultural [...]
JUNE 22, 2012 3:03PM
Why Twitter’s Founders are Going into the Fake Meat Business
Mock, faux, vegan, fake That hunk of seitan isn’t
getting you to pass on a ribeye anytime soon. Let’s face it,
meat substitutes are no substitute for meat. So why are Twitter
cofounders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, guys
[...]
JUNE 20, 2012 1:25PM
Funny, you don’t look Jewish…
image via Kosher Ham Why is it that nearly half of all the
food in American supermarkets is kosher-certified? There are
roughly 6.5 million Jews in the U.S., just about 2% of the
population. Maybe a million of them [...]
JUNE 19, 2012 11:27AM
Intelligent Kids Grow Up to Drink More Alcohol
It seems contradictory, but it’s true. The smartest
kids are the ones who grow up to consume more alcohol, more
frequently. They are more likely than less intelligent individuals
to drink to get drunk and to engage in binge
[...]
JUNE 18, 2012 2:44PM
Extreme Dine-and-Dash: The World’s Most Prolific Freeloader Banned from Ever Eating Out
Britain’s Christopher Travis still eats for free, but
now it’s on the taxpayers’ 5 pence. The serial
dine-and-dasher has a record 86 convictions, plus innumerable
arrests that went unprosecuted—13 of those in
just the last two years. Stiffing a
[...]
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