Holiday gift guides are taking a strong slant on local this year, whether it means heading to local stores, or buying from local food purveyors.
The Washington Post‘s guide includes gift certificates for farmer’s markets.
The Boston Globe is all-New England gourmet.
Food Republic has a delicious round up of “Very Good, Mostly Local” depending on where you’re shipping to or from, the locavore spirit rings true.
Johnny Iuzzini talks about his coffee obsession with Food Republic. He figures as long as he’s going to have to roast chocolate when he opens his chocolate factory, he might as well roast coffee, too.
The first large brewery in decades will open next week in Queens, as reported by DNAinfo.com
Pinterest is now corporate friendly, opening the social media pinboard to business accounts and providing tracking tools. With this new formal opening to businesses, along with it comes rules, tools, and widgets.
Whole Foods is often noted as leading the pack of pinners in terms of quality and quantity.
Is your business pinning yet? If so, we’d love to see the boards.
Two of our nation’s premier cultural institutions are turning the spotlight on food: growing it and the industry surrounding it. Both have opened this week.
The American Museum of Natural History has opened “Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture,” covering the growth, trade, transport, cooking, tasting and wasting of food from prehistoric times to the modern era. It’s a largely interactive exhibit, with food demos and a scheduled tasting series as well.
The Smithsonian Institution has opened “Food: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000,” which explores our diversity of food and plentitude of it. Changes in the cooking and eating landscape are covered, as well as paradigm shifts that have come with new technologies, influential people, and broad shifts in social and cultural life.
If you’re celebrating the holiday, it’s unlikely that you’re still stumped as to what to make for Thanksgiving, but The New York Times has created a clever menu generator for any style of cook.
Visit the Thanksgivingerator.
If the menu’s all planned out and you need help with the finer points, you can reach out to their Thanksgiving Help Line.
We hope you have a wonderful and delicious Thanksgiving.
Portola Coffee Lab is launching Seventh Tea Bar in early December. Named for the Chinese belief that tea is the seventh of seven necessities, a new concept has been developed by Jeff and Christa Duggan, roasters who opened their craft coffee bar Portola last year in Costa Mesa, California.
Seventh Tea Bar will be located next to their main location.
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Urbanspoon, the online local restaurant guide, announced international expansion yesterday. They are partnering with online reservation services Dimmi and Livebookings. Now, Urbanspoon diners worldwide will have the ability to book reservations at nearly 7,000 restaurants with the addition of Livebookings and Dimmi reservation inventory. In the US alone, Urbanspoon is now seating over 2 million US diners per month, a number that has doubled in the last 6 months.
“Our goal is to give diners the best tools along every step of their dining experience, from finding the right restaurant, to making a reservation and giving feedback on their meal,” said Kara Nortman, Senior Vice President, Consumer Businesses, CityGrid. “Partnering with other great companies, like Dimmi and Livebookings, extends our reservations coverage to millions of Urbanspoon diners internationally.”
“Partnering with Urbanspoon highlights our commitment to provide our restaurant customers with access to more traffic,” Guy Halfhead, Vice President of Sales, Livebookings. “Urbanspoon’s user base represents high-quality diners looking to find and book reservations; matching them with our reservation inventory makes perfect sense to our business.”
“Dimmi’s goal is to provide our restaurant customers with access to the best diners in the region and driving new reservations through Urbanspoon allows us to deliver even more value to our restaurants,” said Stevan Premutico, founder and CEO of Dimmi. “Urbanspoon is a popular source of premier restaurant content in Australia and we’re excited about integrating our high-quality reservation product with their website and mobile app.”
Urbanspoon’s expansion into the international market also began with coverage in Ireland, putting information and reviews on more than 2,000 restaurants at the fingertips of Irish (and lucky visiting) diners.
Urbanspoon aggregates restaurant content from across the Web including newspapers, professional food critics, bloggers and diners. It allows diners to make restaurant reservations through its online booking service, both on the Web and mobile. Urbanspoon also offers restaurants Urbanspoon Rezbook – a reservation and table management system built to run on the Apple iPad.
Nation’s Restaurant News reports on mobile payment technology.
A growing number of large-scale brands are attaching their names to mobile platforms. Where do you stand?
We had written earlier this year about Starbucks’ search for tea, it ends and begins with a purchase of Teavana for $620 million cash.
Adding to the list of Teatailers in New York this week is Palais du Thés, a French tea importer and retailer, started in 1987 by François-Xavier Delmas. The chain has 28 boutiques worldwide. The 29th is its first in the United States and the first outside France that is not a franchise.
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