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In this article Danielle Gould interviews Justin Massa, the CEO and cofounder of Food Genius, an application which displays and analyzes dishes for users. Each dish in a restaurant is posted with a picture detailed with information such as ingredients used and cooking methods in order to make a more accurate suggestion for users. The goal of Food Genius is to pre-load data as much as possible and to change the way food recommendations are made.

In this blog article, scholar Elizabeth Hopwood asks followers how Digital Humanities can be used for food studies. People are paying more attention to what is eaten and it's health benefits/negativeness--incorporating digital humanities to such a field would be greatly useful. Other bloggers and Hopwood agree on the need to digitze projects for food studies and mention the New York Public Library online menu database.