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How is the internet changing the way we think about food?
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The internet is making the way we think about food change because it makes it more accessible. To make a new dish is not something so difficult anymore. You can look up just about anything and figure out more then one way to make it.
The internet has made food more exciting – more accessible.
before the internet, when I wanted to cook something new, I had to make sure it was in a cookbook that I already had. Now I just think – Gees, I’d really like a better recipe for Broccoli soup. So I look it up, select the bits and pieces that I think look like the best and make up my own recipe. I do that all the time. My recipe file on this computer is the largest file except for music and photos. I love it love it love it!
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The internet is changing the way we think about food because it is making the processes used to create food more transparent. Before the internet, I had no idea about GMOs or anything related. I didn’t really know what went into making the food we consume.
In the past, many world cuisines were inaccessible to the average cook. The internet has allowed us all the same access to knowledge of the food of cultures all around the world, and the tools with which to turn out fare that was once reserved only for the ‘elite’.
The internet provides a space where people can reintroduce each other to the pleasure and process of making delicious food. Many people are estranged from basic food preparation. Foods come pre-packaged with instruction labels and broad nutritional data. The internet encourages people to share the experience of making food from the ground up with others – alluring them with beautiful photographs, encouraging them with good and simple instruction, and humanizing the process with personal anecdotes and advice. It allows everyone a second chance to learn from ‘mom’ first hand, or to be ‘mom’ to anyone else. So, in that sense, the internet is opening doors for people who want to connect with what they put in their body, but do not know where to start, and this transforms the game entirely.
The change is a combination of various elements, which can be summarized as:
- increased access to information and
- increased access to people.
Access to information includes not only recipes, but also news and stories about food, food culture and agriculture from all over the world. In some cases, access to information can become access to a specific food item, if online order is available.
Access to people includes not only experts in many areas related to food (from nutrition to food justice to agricultural science, etc.) but also access to peers, which makes the experience of cooking and learning about food a shared one, regardless of physical boundaries.
Increased access requires increased attention and critical appraisal on our part, as not only information but also misinformation spreads fast through the internet. I think this is good, on balance, as a recent example shows, namely a journal article reporting the results of a meta-analysis performed by researchers at Stanford on the nutritional content of organic and conventional produce. The so-called mainstream media did a poor job reporting on the article and that sparked a debate on many news outlets and websites that ultimately, if one read several sources, painted a more accurate picture of what the article said and what its limitations were.
The internet is changing the way we think about food in the same ways it’s affecting daily life in many other ways—availability of information is at an all-time high. Now, not only can you look up a recipe for just about any obscure dish, you can see what hundreds of other people thought of that dish or similar ones, or look up a video on how to avoid poached egg disasters. Food has always had a strong cultural and social aspect: the internet is the perfect medium for expanding the way people think about food and how it can impact their own and other people’s lives.
The internet makes recipes accessible to everyone. Now at the click of a button you can find anything from grilled cheese to molecular cooking. It has truly re-shaped the home cook. No longer do we have to run to the library to find new recipes to feed our families and at the simple click of a button we can find new way to sneak healthy foods for picky eaters.
I think the internet is helping people who were never taught proper cooking techniques considerably. With the abundance of how-to videos and food blogs things like making caramel or doing a specific knife cut easy to access.
It would be naive to say that the internet is not changing the way we think about food but I think I’ll say it anyway: the way I think about food has to do with what I find in a market or in the fields or by the river or on the mountain top, or by the ocean. It’s about textural excitement, colors, flavors, ingredients that scream out to me and say: “Cook me.” It’s about the smell that comes from a bowl of Concord grapes that I just discovered above my compost pile, bursting purple fruit that smells of autumn air. It’s about the sage that lingers after all the other herbs have gotten frost bite and disappeared, the earthy, musky scent that makes me want to roast apples and pork and top it with the green herb.
And then, after I have had a first hand, hands-on, five sensory experience with raw food I can go to the internet and hear about all the ways that people around the world cook with the foods i have found, the foods that I am excited to cook. Then I will turn on my computer and let the wonders of the world come to me with the push of a button and the click of a mouse.
is kitchen aid going to come out with these toasters in all the colors that match the mixers
the internet, including pinterest, has changed the way we view food. now we can share recipes through pictures, blogs and tip websites.
The internet is changing the way we think food by showing many different ways to make food. No longer do we have to suffer through the same boring meals. Now with a few clicks searching on food websites or on pinterest we find ways to use what we have to make a completely different meal.
I see people becoming more aware of vegan/vegetarian/gluten-free options and embracing them! From the internet exposure of such dishes, I see more tolerance and acceptance of these various options.
the internet is definitely changing the way we think about food by giving us a lot of more information on the foods we eat, what’s good and what isn’t. telling us how many calories are in the food, and by giving us opportunity to share our recipes with others so we can all try out different foods!
For me, the most important way it has changed how I look at food is that it has opened many doors to food and dishes from other cultures that I would have never known about otherwise. I think we are also exposed to much more information about choices and health.
The internet is changing the way we think about food by not getting stuck with “boring” recipes. There are so many ideas out there and new ways of eating (like raw foods). We don’t have to go by traditional ways of preparing food (like making cookie dough with a blender).
The internet is changing the way we think about food by providing endless facts about the pros and cons of each item. Not to mention, endless recipes and reviews by food critics. Instead of just trying things for ourselves, we have the internet and food critics to judge things for us instead. I see the positives, providing home cooks with new ideas for meals and providing people with healthier alternatives. However, it takes the fun out of being ~ adventurous with our taste buds because there are a bunch of people telling you how awful tasting or wrong for you something is.
The internet helps me expand my palate. I am able to find nutritional information. It is also easier to find recipes