Posts Tagged ‘Foodista.com’

Hell’s Kitchen Winner

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
David Levey, winner of Hell's Kitchen

David Levey, winner of Hell's Kitchen

David Levey, a resident of San Diego, CA won Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen challenge. David will now work at the British Columbia restaurant, Araxi Restaurant and Bar. I am a huge fan of all of Gordon Ramsey’s shows. He is brilliant with the turn arounds he accomplishes on Kitchen Nightmares and the behind the scenes look into his family life we are given in The F Word. I am sure David Levey must be a genius if he garnered Gordon’s support. Hopefully, the kitchen at Araxi is in view of the diners. People will want to look at David(did you see his picture?). During a visit to Araxi Restaruant and Bar, James Walt, executive chef, presented David with local meats and seafood, including fresh scallops to cook. Walt was impressed with David’s cooking talent. Congratulations, David!

Mmm…scallops. Here is a terriffic recipe for scallops:
Bacon Wrapped Scallops on Foodista

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Foodista.com and Wikia.com

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

In this week’s issue of Time magazine, Joel Stein discusses two food websites: Foodista.com and Wikia.com. The idea behind the creation of these websites it to provide food information where collective expertise collaborates to create the best recipes, not unlike  Wikipedia (only with food dishes). People are able to post and combine and change recipes online. You will see, if you read the article, that there are a lot of critics saying that there are too many variables, opinions, a lack of continuity, etc… But, I feel, this is true with all of the thousands of recipes you find online anyway. How do you pick with so many to choose from? I like the idea of people joining efforts to get the kinks out of different recipes or provide helpful tips that others may not know. It sounds efficient and simple to have everyone work on the same project. But, like with encyclopedias, you will get the facts without the passion. Sometimes a good biography with a little love and drama are more interesting than the encyclopedia version. Hence, reading the experience along with the recipe, hopefully for writers like myself, will be more entertaining to the reader. Check out the websites anyway and see what you think.

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