ABOUT EATLIST NYC

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EatList NYC is an online application created by Sandy Ley for Senior Thesis at Parsons School of Design. Cooking at home is a cultural, social, and gastronomic experience. New York City's unique neighborhoods and diverse communities make it a culinary hub of exotic ingredients and worldly cooking cultures. It is also one of the few places in the world where the adventurous can seek out the best masala powder and then hop on the 6 train for dried shiitake mushrooms. But for many New Yorkers, dinner isn't a delicious home cooked meal, but rather, processed or store bought food. For those of us who do cook, enjoying a meal you made yourself can be expensive and laborious. Intriguing recipes often call for too many ingredients that you don't have, while shopping trips take up too much time. This is a problem that is especially common among younger people who tend to go out more and have less time to eat healthy. Younger creatives are also a demographic for which cooking is becoming hip again. Futhermore, a shift from the mainstream cooking television shows to independent, music or culture-driven podcasts or web videos demonstrates that a younger, more tech-saavy demographic of home cooks is growing. This project aims to explore the problems a generation of young home cooks face when living in a busy city. Observational research and case studies will help to define an opportunity for a design intervention that will focus on streamlining the grocery shopping process, saving money and time.