Entries tagged with 'Technology'
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Test Tube Toppings?
Brave new world, eh? Witness: Edible, lab-grown ground chuck that smells and tastes just like the real thing might take a place next to Quorn at supermarkets in just a few years, thanks to some determined meat researchers. Scientists routinely grow small quantities of muscle cells in petri dishes for experiments, but now for the first time a concentrated effort is under way to mass-produce meat in this manner. Henk Haagsman, a professor of meat sciences at Utrecht University, and his Dutch colleagues are working on growing artificial pork meat out of pig stem cells. They hope to grow a...Slice Google Maps in NY Post
This site was mentioned in the New York Post today in a story about Google Maps mashups. Referring, of course, to our Slice Pizza Map. Nyslice.com lets hungry New Yorkers see the city with topographical pizza goggles on. In other words, the way it was intended. Unfortunately, the paper botched our URL. In other words, their hungry readers will remain pizzagraphically challenged and hungry. Off the Charts [New York Post]...Pizza Crust Made From Cheese
In a strange turn of events, a Des Moines, Iowa, radio personality reportedly has invented no-dough pizzas, an idea spawned from a lawn-mowing accident. The Des Moines Register said WHO's Van Harden came up with the idea of making his pizza crusts from a cheese base after losing his desire for bread. Mmm, cheese. You could conceivably make it a trifecta if you used a cheese-based sauce. Way to go, Van! Lawn-mowing accident leads to new pizza [UPI] Van invents a 100% cheese crust pizza [VanHarden.com]...Pie Rollers: The Big Green Pizza Truck
Photograph from BigGreenPizzaTruck.com This pizza wagon one-ups any pizza truck on the streets of Manhattan. And then some: Several years ago Douglas Coffin, a caterer in New Haven, built a portable bread oven that he planned to use at big events. When that did not work out (not cost-effective) he decided to put a wood-fired oven aboard a truck, drive to company picnics and birthday parties and make thin-crust pizzas for his clients. The Big Green Pizza Truck First the Pizza's Delivered. Then It's Cooked [New York Times]...Day Without Foodblogs
Reading Chez Pim today, I came across some alarming info: One of the Internet's great strengths is that a single blogger or a small political group can inexpensively create a Web page that is just as accessible to the world as Microsoft's home page. But this democratic Internet would be in danger if the companies that deliver Internet service changed the rules so that Web sites that pay them money would be easily accessible, while little-guy sites would be harder to access, and slower to navigate. [New York Times editorial desk] So, I'll participate in Pim's Day Without Foodblogs FURTHER...Google Trends: Pizza Search
I saw on Gothamist that Google has released a new whizbang feature: Google Trends, which lets you "see what the world is searching for." Naturally, we ran pizza through the machine: No surprise that the peaks and troughs are due to high-profile pizza news items, which the tool maps out using letter markers, while giving a key as to what the letters correspond to: What did surprise us—and break our hearts—was that New York City was not at the top of the list of cities searching for pizza. It wasn't even in the Top 10. Slice will look on the...Pizzerias Appear in True Crime: New York
I don't really know much about this True Crime: New York City game except that you play your way through a digitally rendered Gotham as a renegade cop. When Gothamist found a gallery of screen captures, I scoured it for any digital depictions of pizzerias. Sure enough. This screen shot (above) sorta reminds me of the pizza-oven scene in Goodfellas. Remember that? Anyone know if this pixelated pie shop is based on any particular pizzeria in the city? True Crime: New York pizza-oven screen shot NYC Crime Is Going Up -- Online!, Gothamist...Blackberry Pies
Papa John's, the nation's No. 3 pizza chain, is offering free Blackberry devices to customers in a limited-time promotion. From Pizza Marketplace: Papa John's is running a limited-time promotion offering customers a chance to get a free BlackBerry 7100g wireless handheld device if their online pizza order includes two 20-ounce beverages, a side item and a commitment to a 2-year voice and data service agreement with PageMaster.... The device is free after participants apply for a $150 rebate. We see a brave new world of wireless pizza ordering. Then again, we already have that option. On our cellphones. Papa John's...piPod in the Post
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...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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