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Satisfy Your App-etite : iPhone Apps Foodies Should Never Dine Without

Published on April 23, 2010 in Food Blogs Unwrapped. View Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

If you are a hardcore tech geek (present!), uber foodie nerd (yes!) or chef then your smart phone is probably attached at the hip. Do you have a love affair with your iPhone? As self confessed iPhone addicts we take our phone everywhere and use it for everything imaginable, a gazillion things to be exact. Our  iPhone serves as an alarm clock, calender, address book while allowing us to stay connected with friends and surf the web (and our favorite food sites). Not to shabby!

Whether you are a foodie, amazing cook or amateur chef, we all  can’t resist delicious mobile apps that make cooking, finding restaurants and ingredients much easier. With such an array of iPhone apps that cater to our love of food we can now browse menus, read restaurant reviews (the good and bad), use the gps to find a nearby eatery or trendy hot spot,  make reservations, check in, calculate tips and find a plethora of scrumptious recipes. Grocery shopping, recipe hunting and discovering new restaurants has never been so effortless. We have all seen the commercials of Apple touting “there’s an app for that” , well we would have to agree. If you don’t have an iPhone yet this is surely gonna make you wish you had one.

Mobile devices like the iPhone are making the dining in or out experience even tastier. Hungry? Hosting a dinner party and need a menu? Just pick up your iPhone. The app store is dishing out some amazing app-etizers to get your dining experience off to a good start. In order for us to accomplish our mission to find good eats we have enlisted the help of our iPhone and some of the best foodie apps for guidance. There are so many amazing, fun, user friendly and FREE apps out their that we use on a daily basis to help ease our hunger pains. Well, we don’t want to be stingy and want to share them with you. Trust us there is enough to go around. Satisfy your “app-etite”! Dine a la carte and download a few of our foodie favorites until you are full.

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Food Tattoos: Seriously Tasty Ink

Published on April 23, 2010 in Food Blogs Unwrapped. View Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

In a recent food blog we did about a mobile crepe company @TruckinGoodFood we couldn’t help but realize we’ve been noticing more and more chefs & foodies with food tattoos. Come on – a Nutella tattoo is pretty awesome! If you love a food that much getting inked shows some serious dedication.


Nutella Tattoo >> Photo Credit: Bloggin’ Good Food

With our interests peaked we decided to surf the interwebs to dig deeper into this tasty food tattoo trend. It didn’t take long to find a plethora of food blogs chronicling the ink’d food trend.  You can read them here, here, here, here and here.

Rather you like savory or sweet there seems to be a food ‘tat for you! So what is your flavor?  – A Chicago dog, grapefruit or sweet cherry pie. The detail is amazing – some serious time and talent when into these.


Credit: flickr.com/butterfat

Fruit, sweets and produce seem to be a very popular option.


Credit: flickr.com/myjuly

We are partial to the pork products and fresh veggies. mmm…Okra & Beets.


Credit: flickr.com/marcwcarroll        /emilycamilla                         /luckyplanet

Food tattoos aside one of the next most popular trends are kitchen appliances and utensils.


Credit: flickr.com/bennettedwards                             flickr.com/sylviels

We hoped you enjoyed our culinary tour of food tattoos as much as we did. Please leave a comment below and let us know…if you got a food tattoo – what would you get?

Now we are off on another foodie adventure, so taste buds stay tuned!

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Top food trends for 2010: Eggs are the new bacon

Published on April 14, 2010 in Food Blogs Unwrapped. View Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

We were recently reading several blog posts about top food trends for 2010. They were written in 2009 and we wanted to see so far in 2010 which ones rang true. (In our opinion)  Some of the predicted trends were spot on and others were way off. You can read the plethora of 2010 food trend posts here, here, here, here and here.

Food Trend: Eggs are the new bacon. This one couldn’t be more spot on. Case in point our last blog post about a pulled squash sandwich topped with a fried egg. We are seeing fried eggs being topped on everything from burgers, sandwiches and pizzas. Biting into a sandwich topped with a sunny side up “dippy” egg is just so perfect – warm goodness running everywhere and mixing with all the flavors. #NomNomNom

Now is bacon a dead trend? We don’t think so but it had a good run – deep fried bacon, bacon chocolate, thick cut bacon on a stick….hey we love bacon as much as anyone does but bacon everywhere is getting a bit much.

Some of the other trends we feel are spot on are:

  • Local, Local, Local

Locally grown, locally sourced and produced. People are seeking out local restaurants and eateries that are small & family owned. You want to know where your food came from and how it’s made and who made it.
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