Google Hangouts, a feature of Google+, Google’s new social network, lets people video-chat, watch YouTube clips together and even take turns belting out rounds of karaoke.
As it turns out, the service can also be a good way to host a cooking show.
Lee Allison, a technology consultant in New York, runs the Google+ Cooking School, hour-long cooking classes conducted over video-chat. Mr. Allison got the idea to create a casual culinary school after he began playing around with Hangouts and realized he could use it for one of his personal passions, food.
“A good friend of mine and I are foodies and we’ve been showing people how to cook for years now,” he said. “The opportunity to do it face-to-face using technology was a light bulb kind of moment.”
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