Today on Google it’s all about the tasty food and we’re thrilled to be a part of it. To kick off the next 6 week food marathon, Google partnered with The Food Network, Epicurious, various chefs, UrbanSpoon, and Foodzie! Some supplied iGoogle themes and some gadgets. If you load ‘em all up, you’ll have inspiration for recipes, ingredients, local restaurants, and yummy food gifts (that’s where we come in!).

Our contribution to this food fest, is the Foodzie gadget (see cheesecake in jar – top left!). There’s always something new on Foodzie with new producers continuously setting up stores and introducing new products to our customers. Our gadget gives you a quick peek of a few products per category (one at a time) without having to leave your google homepage. If one product doesn’t initiate hunger pains in your gut, just click “see all” to expand the gadget and bam! you’re in cheese or (insert favorite food) heaven.

This gadget is an awesome tool for the holidays that you can quickly browse through to find unique and interesting products on Foodzie. Find it here on the bottom left!

I got to celebrate the launch of our gadget with my turkey-brining hero, Alton Brown, who saved me the first year I had to prepare and serve turkey for the whole family. Today I spent the afternoon down at the Googleplex with most of the festivities led by Alton who gave the most entertaining presentation about turkey. Seriously I have never laughed out loud so much in one hour, especially not about the ol’ gobbler.

The Google folks fed us some awesome food (Google knows a thing or two about feeding people well) including this seasonal fruit tray.

Here are some of the highlights I snapped at the event, although I highly recommend tomorrow you head to YouTube (should be up by then) and check out the video of his speech packed with pinko commies, flaming turkeys, and the always witty, always animated, Alton Brown.

It’s all about the brine!

A rather more complex way (err, the Alton way!) to fry a turkey.

Same turkey. Oops, turkey on fire.

And finally….just in case you were wondering the same thing, I’ll leave you with Alton’s response to the question… “What should I make if I don’t want to make turkey for Thanksgiving?”