Social Media

As long as there has been food, people have been willing to share their thoughts about the best place to find it and the best way to prepare it. These conversations have taken place at innumerable times and in countless locations—over back fences, in the church basement, on the town common during the Fourth of July pie-eating contest. With social media, these discussions about favorite chicken recipes or “that great new Thai restaurant” have migrated from the fixed times and locations of the past to the indeterminate online realms of the virtual, the never-ending, and the global.