Well, I didn't see this until today, but I guess our handy little invention that goes by the name of piPod was featured in the New York Post on Sunday.
Oy: We really need to do some updating to our piPod database.
From the story:
"I used to keep all my to-try information on Post-it notes," says Adam Kuban, 30, inventor of the piPod, a free program at piPodNY.com that gives mini-reviews of several dozen pizza places in the five boroughs.Since it was put online last summer, it's been downloaded by 1,300 pizza-lovers.
"I started putting pizza-location info onto my iPod because I always carry that with me - it's something I'm not trying to lose. From there, I just thought I'd offer those notes to readers of my website [sliceny.com].
Read the entire thing after the jump.
March 13, 2005 -- Sure, iPods can carry music, phone numbers, even games. But who knew they could help you make a martini?
Thanks to a handful of new programs available for downloading online, you can use your iPod to figure out how to make a Bacardi Collins, bake an apple cobbler or find Brooklyn's best pizza joint."I used to keep all my to-try information on Post-it notes," says Adam Kuban, 30, inventor of the piPod, a free program at piPodNY.com that gives mini-reviews of several dozen pizza places in the five boroughs.
Since it was put online last summer, it's been downloaded by 1,300 pizza-lovers.
"I started putting pizza-location info onto my iPod because I always carry that with me - it's something I'm not trying to lose. From there, I just thought I'd offer those notes to readers of my website [sliceny.com].
"It's certainly not comprehensive, nor is it meant to be," he says. "It's a list we made first and foremost of my favorite pizzerias the."
Each entry contains the pizza place's phone number, address, hours, a comprehensive review and sometimes even a brief, informed history of the place.
Lombardi's in SoHo is called a "frayed page in Gotham's gastronomic history book ... [but] genetically speaking, every pizzeria is indebted to it."
Franny's in Park Slope gets "major props," but other places are described in words that border on the poetic.
"Islands of mozzarella float on a bed of sauce, an appearance that promises the proper balance of crust, sauce, cheese," Kuban writes in what turns out to be a less-than-favorable review of Nunzio's in Staten Island.
Emeril Lagasse has caught on to the idea of using the iPod to influence eating with his mFinder, a free downloadable program at emerils.com/fun/iPod_downloads.html that directs eaters to his restaurants in Oralndo, New Orleans, Miami Beach, Las Vegas and Atlanta.
And an enterprising Californian student, Enrique Quinero, is offering drink recipes, gourmet recipes and even vegan recipes on his site, enriquequintero-design.com.
Samples can be downloaded for free, but it costs $10 to download complete versions of each recipe.
To date, close to 50,000 people have downloaded the programs, which work on third- and fourth-generation iPods.
Quinero has compiled over 500 recipes - desserts, sauces, beef dishes and tofu concoctions et al. - and some 900 drink recipes.
So, if your bartender seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time thumbing a click wheel behind the bar, he's probably just reminding himself how to make a Manhattan.
But mixing drinks directly over the apparatus should be avoided.
"I've tested this out with my own iPod," says Quintero.
"I like to read the recipe first, commit it to memory and then proceed to mix the drink. It's probably best not to do it when inebriated. I haven't heard of any iPods being ruined, yet."
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