Greek Home Cooks Harness Technology to Share Meals with Strangers

Greek food © Steven Depolo

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Human nature is behind the success of the Internet. We are hardwired to want to share.

While we may cringe at the oversharing that happens online — and I can certainly live happily without ever again seeing someone’s ultrasound results posted on Facebook — there’s no denying that the web has created unprecedented opportunities for sharing, and the Sharing Economy is a positive development made feasible by its existence.

Now, cooks in Greece are using the Internet to share the most basic of things that we inherently love to share: food. Cookisto is an online community that matches up home cooks who have extra portions of their family meals with hungry people looking for an affordable, home-cooked meal.

Check out more about this on BBC News

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