Grub Street

“How can information and technology be used to hack (or reimagine) meat?” It's a pretty safe bet that only one food event this weekend will tackle this question. The aptly named Meat Hackathon is a three-day affair sponsored by Grace Communications Foundation, Food+Tech Connect, and Applegate, which produces sustainable meats. The event is designed to produce new ideas about animal farming and production modes through the imposition of constraints and competitive challenges with specific rules. So, basically, like Road Rules, but with more brains and poultry. There will also be, of course, a butchery demo on Sunday afternoon with Tom Mylan. Meat-hack the planet! [Hack//Meat via Green/NYT]

Keavy Landreth of Kumquat Cupcakery and Allison Kave of First Place Pies are teaming up and using their blind baking skills for the forces of good. They'll be opening a dual-use cocktail bar and sweets shop next spring in Brooklyn, called Butter and Scotch, and if you haven't collapsed under the weight of this profound cuteness, you should follow the buttercream dreamers and their eventual build-out on Tumblr as they try to "figure out how two people go about creating a dessert haven in this crazy food world we call Brooklyn." We believe in you, ladies. [DrunkBakers/Tumblr]

Current Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold will be the subject of a forthcoming documentary directed by Laura Gabbert, who made 2009's No Impact Man, according to The Hollywood Reporter. When he started out 30 years ago, Gold shifted the food conversation away from white tablecloth restaurants by turning attention to a broader array of mom and pop noodle shops, burrito stalls, undersung smokehouses, gas station sandwich shops, and more, giving them the same consideration as the rest of the Los Angeles dining scene, then coming down from a fever dream of spa cuisine and oversteamed snow peas.