By the gang of toques on Friday, December 9th, 2011
Last night, Cellar, Eat St., Maine Food, Foodspotting and nine other food apps made history in the first ever Toque Food Apps Awards. 42 Restaurants garnered wins in two categories, Best Design and Best Restaurant, followed by top honors as Best Overall app.
42 Restaurants wins Best Overall and two other awards
During a 90-minute presentation on Twitter (#foodappawards), Toque founder Erika Kotite and food app critic Steve Cooper announced finalists and winners in 15 categories. Each finalist app was tested, evaluated and scored by independent judges in the culinary and digital media community.
“We were thrilled by the caliber of design, utility and innovation these apps had,” Kotite says. “It was a lot of work as we had more submissions than expected but we all came out of it better informed of the app’s incredible potential.”
Here are the complete list of winners:
Best Social App: Ness
Best Utility: Tip Calculator
By the gang of toques on Monday, December 5th, 2011
This Thursday is the big day for finalists in our first Food App Awards. At 5:30 Pacific Time (8:30 Eastern Time), join Erika Kotite, Steve Cooper (Toque food app critic), editors Elina Shatkin and Amy Zavatto and all the judges to find out who walks away with the prize.
Winners in each of the 15 categories will receive a custom designed badge designed by Zoe Graphics and a year’s worth of bragging rights. In addition, a Best Overall Food App will be selected. All of the finalists are eligible for this award whether or not they win in another category. “Some of these apps have an outstanding balance of features that reach across all of the categories,” comments Cooper.
By the gang of toques on Monday, October 31st, 2011
There’s always been an uneasy link between Halloween and scary food. Growing up you couldn’t shake the fear of poisoned candy and always had to throw away Mrs. Gordon’s handmade candy apples because they were, well, homemade. Scary stories about tainted candy and that dark house on the corner were an essential part of the evening’s festivities.
Are you SURE those are just peanut chunks in your peanut butter?
Now that most of us have traded candy gorging with sewing costumes at midnight for our kids or simply handing out the candy, we have adult horror stories to take the place of those that scared us so much as kids. In honor of today, we’ve harvested some current food trends you can be really scared about.
1. Sandra Lee is one of New York’s 50 Most Powerful Women, according to Crain’s New York Business. We have nothing against Sandra and more power to her, but we’re scared that there were not other contenders more influential than someone who makes semi-homemade food on television.
2. Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of genetically modified crop seeds, is excited about its new product: crops that are herbicide resistant. P.J. Huffstutter notes in the Los Angeles Times that “Soon, people will be thumping melons bred to be a single serving and shucking sweet corn genetically modified to enable farmers to spray the fields with the company’s weed killer, Roundup.”
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