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Weekend links #2

Two rather random links this week.

Scientific:

Could camel milk come to Europe?

Healthier than cows milk, would you give it a try?

Misc:

Robot learns to flip a pancake

I don't think it takes a human 50 attempts to learn to flip a pancake but once mastered...

Weekend links #1

So this is the start of a new weekly feature where I will post interesting food related links that I stumble across, feel free to use the contact form to send in your own link suggestions.

Scientific:
Eating to Live or Living to Eat?
Every time you are about to take that...

A culinary tour of lebanon

The only time I have had Lebanese food before was when I went to the Levant restaurant in London for the 2009 Food Bloggers Connect event – and it was delicious. So when I saw that Bethany Kehdy of Dirty Kitchen Secrets (she is the one who organised the Food...

New feature - RSS feeds

As a content provider, we want users to be able to pick up content from the site as easily as possible, in a way that is convenient for them. We are a big fan of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as it allows users to get updates from multiple websites directly into their RSS Reader - meaning that users do not have to keep visiting several websites in order to check for new or relevant content.

We have added RSS feeds for Articles, Blog...

Competition Tickets to the Royal Bath and West Show (2nd - 5th June, Somerset, England)

Prize information:

We are giving away 2 tickets to the Royal Bath and West Show to 1 lucky winner.

Each ticket allows access for one person, plus 3 children (ages 5-15 inclusive).

Each ticket would normally cost £17, so this prize is worth £34. See the

Apple iPad - take your recipes into the kitchen

We haven't optimised getmecooking.com for touch-screen devices yet (give us time - it is on our to-do list!) but we have optimised it for a screen resolution of 1024x768, which is the same as the Apple iPod (in landscape orientation).

So we would be really interested to know if people are viewing this site on their iPad and reading recipes from it in the kitchen. How are you finding the experience?

One advantage of the iPad (and other state tablet devices)...

Some key features of GetMeCooking

• Great usability
  • Really easy to use, while being very clever behind the scenes
  • Real-time validation on user forms, so no getting to the end of a form and pressing submit before being told that you got something wrong at the top!
  • Easy to use navigation (no drop down or hidden menus)
  • Easy sharing of recipes, blogs and articles via e-mail, twitter, facebook and...

Review of food bloggers connect, London, November 2009

I attended Food Bloggers Connect today and... it was very good!

It was good to see the faces behind the blogs. I wasn’t too sure what to expect – a room full of cooking nerds, budding Delia Smith's... Actually I was met with a around 40-50 ‘normal’ people who just happened to enjoy writing about their experiences of cooking or consuming food.

Upon arrival I...

Attending food bloggers connect, London, 28th November 2009

I will be attending the Food Bloggers Connect event in London on the 28th November.

Food Blogger Connect is the first Food Blogging conference to take place in the UK and I will be there to talk to food bloggers to get a better understanding of what they would like from a recipe site such as GetmeCooking, what they like and dislike about other food sites and how we can possibly integrate aspects of their food blogging sites into our and visa-versa.

It sounds like it is going...

Added "change number of servings" feature

If a recipe was written to serve 2 people and you want to cook if for 5, you can now see the quantity of ingredients without having to calculate it yourself!

Please note only the ingredient listing is calculated so you will need to allow for different cooking times and temperatures yourself.