Posts Tagged ‘ food ’

TouchPad Microwave Hack Finds Videos That End Right When The Popcorn Is Ready

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TouchPad Microwave Hack Finds Videos That End Right When The Popcorn Is Ready

Your better half is off doing things more important than making you food. Looks like it’s leftovers night! You stick the grub in the microwave, punch in the time, hit start… and you’re bored. A minute and thirty seconds?! To heat CHICKEN !? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL OF THIS...

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Too Lazy To Count Calories? Now You Can Just Take A Picture Of Your Meal

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Too Lazy To Count Calories? Now You Can Just Take A Picture Of Your Meal

Wow. If this app had been pitched to us on the 1st, I would have been sure it was an April Fool’s joke. Coming in a few days later, however, it seems almost genius. Given that my job of sitting in front of a computer and blasting out gadget news isn’t exactly an...

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Google’s Robotic Recipe Search Favors SEO Over Good Food

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Google’s Robotic Recipe Search Favors SEO Over Good Food

Editor’s note : Guest writer Amanda Hesser is a cookbook author, co-founder of cooking community site Food52 , and a food columnist for the New York Times . The entity with the greatest influence on what Americans cook is not Costco or Trader Joe’s. It’s not the Food Network or The New York...

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Counting Calories Online

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Calorie-counting websites recently have ramped up their food databases and added better tools to make it less tedious to monitor what you eat. The Cranky Consumer tries out four websites.

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Google Rolls Out New Search Tool for Recipes

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Google Rolls Out New Search Tool for Recipes

Google began rolling out Thursday a new search feature that makes finding recipes on the web a little easier. Dubbed “Recipe View,” the feature lets users filter search results according to ingredients, cook time, calories and more. Users can search, for instance, for recipes containing brussels sprouts, devised by chef Ina Garten, that...

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