Food & Drink

Mapping with Google Insights

In Cartography, Food & Drink, Search on 1 September 2008 with 1 comment

David McRaney recently used Google Insights to discover and map the spatial distribution of Google searches involving the search term “sweet tea”. I love the idea, but I wish that Google allowed us to normalize the data against something like the number of total searches made per state or the populations for each. Or does [...]

Higher food prices mean more community gardens.

In Economics, Food & Drink, Gardening on 5 June 2008 with no comments

Higher food prices mean more community gardens.
Under a common type of community garden model, users pay an annual fee for the privilege of growing plants on a plot of land within a larger garden. In Portland, Ore., the fee for a 400-square-foot plot of land is $50. But the value of food grown on [...]

All the takeout menus in Brighton. Scanned and searchable.

In Brighton, Britain, Food & Drink, Innovation on 13 November 2007 with no comments

Two students in Brighton [wiki, official, map] got tired of hunting down menus from all the takeout restaurants in town so they scanned them all. Brightontasty was born.

Chicago: most caffeinated US city

In Chicago, Food & Drink, Health on 9 November 2007 with no comments

“Chicagoans eat more chocolate and drink more cola than other U.S. urbanites, and are among the top consumers of energy drinks and coffee.”