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Video Interview: On the Road with James Cunningham

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He was Mr. Emotek in System Crash, he’s been featured on Last Comic Standing, Just for Laughs and Comedy Inc., he’s the creator of North America’s award-winning ”FUN-ancial” lecture for students, Funny Money, and he currently hosts the hit TV series, Eat St. by Paperny Films, which profiles the best street food across North America on Food Network Canada and Cooking Channel in the US.
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The Soured Peach – How to Avoid a Customer Service Nightmare

harry & david, royal riviera, bear mountain gift, customer service, social sales, social media, customer retention, loyalty, branding, food trucks, fan base, food network, eat st, stitches 'n dishesNow, in 2013 more than ever before, any food truck operator who fails to realize social media’s potential for customer interaction and retention are not only being left behind, they’re potentially setting themselves up for catastrophic failure. (more…)

From the Silver Screen to Your Kitchen – Eat St the Cookbook

eat st, food network, cookbook, paperny entertainment, james cunningham, penguin, canada, smokes poutine, poutine, recipe, cooking video, stitches n' dishes As an avid Food Network fan, I don’t think there are any shows on the network that I haven’t seen yet, and when shows like Eat St come out with cookbooks, I’m usually the first in line. I’ve seen them come, and I’ve seen them go. Along the way, a few stand-outs have really become favorites of mine; one of which of course is Eat St. Back in August of 2011, as we explored food trucks and food carts around California while we watched shows like Eat St and Great Food Truck Race, I followed along with some of my favorite foodie bloggers and thought, “why am I not doing that?” (more…)

Sneak Peek of the Eat St. Cookbook: Yellow Burger Recipe

Eat-St-Cookbook-Yellow-Burger-1It all started in Miami, Florida back in 2009 when two brothers, Andreas and Flavio, and their sister, Angela launched their Yellow Submarine Truck. They created a concept that brings together good food and their love for music. The Eat St. film crew hit the road and headed for Miami in search of the Yellow Submarine and its famous Yellow Burger in Season One. (more…)

So You Want to Make Food Porn

Food is an art. It’s a language. It’s emotive and it’s nourishing. For many, in that particular order. Rosalind Coward, feminist food critic, first coined the term, “food porn” in 1984, and we’ve had a steamy, visual love affair with food since. And in today’s mobile world, if you’re not sharing a photo of a cat on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest, you’re probably sharing a photo of your lunch or dinner (or you’d like to). (more…)