Putting Quality Into Your Supplies

By Gelato Products

If you’re a fan of baking, cooking or otherwise coming up with amazing dishes, you probably already know how important your ingredients are. Pick the wrong ones and your dish just won’t work. However, if you don’t pick the very best ingredients, your results will still suffer. Have you ever thought about how important your supplies are though?

For example, ice cream shop supplies can be bought at extremely low prices, if you don’t think much about the quality. You can buy all kinds of frozen yogurt spoons, cups, covers and more and do so for practically nothing, compared to other options.

The problem is that a lot of those other options are far better in terms of what they’re made from and could make all the difference where the finished product is concerned. By spending just a little extra though, it works as an investment. Later on, this money will be worth spending because it will mean greater returns down the road.

What a lot of people don’t think about is how these supplies reflect on their business. Customers can tell when materials aren’t quality because of how they feel and the taste they leave behind. So spend a bit more now on something better in the future.

No matter what you need for your ice cream shop, Gelato Products has them at the best possible price. Everything from tasting spoons cups and more can be yours and these are products you’ll be proud to show off.

Cuisine on Computers

This article was written by Samuel Phineas Upham

When Tim Berners-Lee introduced the concept of the Web in 1990, it set the stage for much of the information access we have today. You can basically find the answer to anything if you understand how to ask a search engine.

It’s also important to understand that the Internet, in many ways, was the bi-product of the Cold War era. It was meant as a tool for defense institutions to communicate efficiently, then became an economic and social game-changer. No one really planned for this to happen, which is why the earliest forms of information on the Internet were somewhat random in nature. The first recipe, for instance, was most likely a family favorite of some top-brass military personnel.

Still, there was a growing side of the Internet that was using the service to communicate with others. This was taking the form of moderated message boards, often called newsgroups. These groups would exchange information and encourage others to grow the community. Brian K. Reid, moderator of the gourmand group, is credited with maintaining one of the earliest databases of food on the Internet. He had a few rules for writing recipes, including: no preaching, no fake ingredients and no “mystical” quantities.

If you’re curious about when the Internet started actually giving food to us, as opposed to use getting ideas on how to cook, trace back no further than 1994. It was Pizza Hut that first began accepting orders taken from the Internet, and the service was limited only to customers in the Santa Cruz area.


About the Author: Samuel Phineas Upham is an investor at a family office/hedgefund, where he focuses on special situation illiquid investing. Before this position, Samuel Phineas Upham was working at Morgan Stanley in the Media & Technology group. You may contact Samuel Phineas Upham on his Samuel Phineas Upham website.

When Americans Tasted Asian Food

This article was written by Samuel Phineas Upham

Asian food has a long and storied history in America. It arrived with Chinese immigrants in California during the 1800s. It was like an attempt at reconnecting with their roots, and Asian populations were booming throughout that era. As a result, the food caught on.

Small American twists, like a greater emphasis on meat, were added to suit the American pallet and the food was very well received. In the early days of Chinese food, most dishes for Americans consisted of noodles and fried steak, with just a touch of vegetables like peppers. Better cooks in San Francisco helped to diversify the content of the meals, and bring more popularity to Chinese food in general.

During the 1920s, young bohemians considered Chinese food exotic, which leant even more popularity to the already tasty dishes.

Obviously, much of this food isn’t really Chinese food. The fortune cookie, for instance, is a distinctly American invention designed to add just a hint of sweetness to the dish. Sugar was the main ingredient in many dishes, and could often be found in large doses. MSG also became associated with Chinese food over the years. The running gag was that sugar, MSG and a cheap soy sauce basically created the sauce to all Chinese food. And it wasn’t entirely untrue.

Today’s Chinese food is a bit more health conscious, but America is still a long way off from serving traditional Chinese cuisine. Still, the cuisine is so passable that Asian-Americans might be forgiven for mistaking it with traditional fare.


Samuel Phineas Upham

About the Author: Samuel Phineas Upham is an investor at a family office/hedgefund, where he focuses on special situation illiquid investing. Before this position, Samuel Phineas Upham was working at Morgan Stanley in the Media & Technology group. You may contact Samuel Phineas Upham on his Samuel Phineas Upham website.