Pinterest is unveiling a new pin structure for different types of products and an integration with a large number of retail brands, as it continues buildng up the platform and paving the way for growth.…
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Feast brings the online academy model to cooking classes
Feast CEO David Spinks is combining the e-learning model pioneered by education sites like Udemy and Coursera with his experience in building online communities, and he's applying it all to building on online cooking school.…
Read MoreBitcoins burning a hole in your pocket? Try ordering some takeout
Online food delivery and takeout portal Foodler is now accepting Bitcoin alongside credit cards and cash-on-delivery for orders from more than 17,000 restaurants.…
Read MoreYC winter 2013 demo day: Five startups to watch (afternoon edition)
Y Combinator's winter batch launched on Tuesday in Mountain View. Here are the second batch of startups we'd pick out of the day's line-up that are worth a look.…
Read MoreYummly opens up its recipe API to food app developers
As Punchfork gets ready to shut down its API post Pinterest acquisition, Yummly hopes to step into its shoes, proving recipe content to food sites and apps. Yummly's semantic search technology, however, has a lot to offer.…
Read MoreJamie Oliver goes live with Food Tube on YouTube
Jamie Oliver's new Food Tube channel is live on YouTube - and it's going to feature some familiar faces for people who scour the video site for unique food videos.…
Read MorePinterest gets serious about recipe inspiration with Punchfork buy
Cooking inspiration is already one of Pinterest users' biggest reasons for using the popular social network, and Pinterest has decided to make the most of that trend. Its first acquisition is recipe aggregator and culinary inspiration portal Punchfork.…
Read MoreHow Food Genius built the ultimate test kitchen out of menu data
If you've ever ordered a dish off a menu, chances are it's in Food Genius's servers. The startup has compiled a mammoth database of menus with the goal of tracking what America is eating. In January it begins selling that data to food companies.…
Read MoreGojee jumps from food recipes to add high-end fashion discovery
Looking for high-end fashion ideas in addition to the perfect lasagna recipe? Gojee's new fashion verticals might seem like an odd fit, but when you look at the company's approach toward quality products and visual discovery, suddenly the new additions make a lot of sense.…
Read MoreEvernote Food 2.0 wants to inspire meals, not just record them
Evernote Food wants to be the only food app users need. With the upgrade to Evernote 2.0 for the iPhone and iPad, users can not just remember past meals but get restaurant recommendations and recipe ideas for future meals.…
Read MoreChef Alton Brown on adapting the recipe to the social media age
In a digital world, the recipe has transformed from a static set of instructions into a kind of open-source code which any cook and adjust or reformulate. Food Network's Alton Brown proposes to embrace that trend to create a form of living recipe.…
Read MoreMeet Chefs Feed, the anti-Foodspotting
Crowdsourcing may have liberated the restaurant review from the critics, but Steve and Jared Rivera think its also produced a lot of bad food recommendations. There answer was to create Chefs Feed, a food app where recommendations come solely from professional chefs.…
Read MoreThanksgiving isn’t just big for m-commerce; it’s big for m-cooking as well
Community cooking portal Allrecipes.com recorded record traffic over Thanksgiving, but what's most surprising is where that traffic came from: 41 percent of its visits came from a smartphone or tablet. Allrecipes started out as a web enterprise, but it's quickly turning into a mobile one.…
Read MoreFood Network is eyeing YouTube for exclusive online content
Food Network wants to partner with YouTube to produce exclusive content for the site as part of its professional channels initiative. For the cable network, it's part of a bigger initiative of embracing online content. But can Food Network find an audience on YouTube?…
Read MoreWalmart Labs launches Goodies, a Birchbox-like service for food
Walmart Labs, the retail giant's innovation arm, on Wednesday launched a subscription food service called Goodies. Similar to beauty startup Birchbox, the service charges subscribers a monthly fee to receive a curated box of sample-sized items, which they can then purchase in greater amounts online.…
Read MoreWhere’s that delivery guy? GrubHub intros meal tracking
GrubHub has souped up its mobile apps and web portal with new order tracking features, allowing its diners to track the status of their meals from the moment they leave the restaurant to the moment they arrive at the front door.…
Read MoreRecipe curator Gojee launches iOS, Android apps
Gojee has been using ingredient data to recommend recipes and track pantry staples on the web for a year. Now it's final ready to make its service portable. Today it launched mobile apps for Android, the iPhone and the iPad.…
Read MoreWine site Snooth builds a virtual sommelier for Springpad
Snooth is making wine recommendations on every recipe that Springpad users clip. Rather than hire an army of sommeliers to suggest pairings for the countless recipes on the web, Snoot has built an algorithm that deconstructs recipes and matches them to their ideal wine profiles.…
Read MoreCue the protein printer: Peter Thiel invests in artificial meat
Sounds creepy, but someday we may need to change out the blood cartridges in our printers before we can print out dinner. Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs is investing in a cultured food startup called Modern Meadow, which aims to combine in-vitro meat with 3D printing.…
Read MoreGerman start-ups seek e-commerce opening as U.S. ‘leaves rest of world open’
The online food-ordering firm is emblematic of a new breed of aggressively expansionist German e-commerce startup. And, according to CEO Fabian Siegel, the race is on for pretty much anywhere that's not the U.S.…
Read MoreFood search site NutritionRank aims to quantify healthy eating
The folks over at iFood.tv are no longer just proffering up cooking videos and recipes. IFood.tv's founders have launched a nutrition search engine and database called NutritionRank with the rather ambitious goal of making it the web’s top repository of dietary health information.…
Read MoreA startup’s plan to turn Evernote & Facebook into digital cookbooks
Cooks are increasingly using services like Evernote, Facebook and Pinterest to store their culinary ideas, storing recipes as notes, likes and pins for later viewing. The problem is none of the three is designed to be a culinary tool, but Say Mmm plans to change that.…
Read MoreSocial dining startup Grubwithus orders up $5M in new funding
Social dining network Grubwithus has raised $5 million in Series A financing, which the startup will use to expand its basic business premise: getting likeminded strangers together in a physical restaurant to share a meal.…
Read MoreFoodspotting moves to ensure you don’t need Yelp’s app
Foodspotting is putting great services offered by Yelp right into its social food-finding app: reviews, as well as OpenTable reservations and menu pages from Single Platform. Plus: Restaurants will find more informative dashboard pages and users will see far more data on their profile pages.…
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