Food, Fun and the Stories Behind What We Eat
Welcome to Grubbits, a food and entertainment publication created for people who enjoy discovering the stories behind the things we eat, the products we find interesting and the food-related moments that become part of popular culture. Grubbits takes a broad and sometimes playful look at food, exploring everything from food history and inventions to restaurants, products, trends, entertainment and the unusual stories that can make an ordinary meal or snack much more interesting.
Food has always been about more than simply satisfying hunger. It connects us to memories, families, traditions, businesses, technology and popular culture, which gives us plenty of reasons to look beyond the plate and explore the stories surrounding what we eat.
Where Food Meets Curiosity
Grubbits was created by Tony Medeiros, a Montreal-based writer and publisher whose work has covered food, restaurants, pop culture and entertainment for more than two decades. The idea behind Grubbits was to create a place where food could be explored from a wider perspective, without being limited to traditional restaurant reviews or recipes.
A food product, kitchen invention, restaurant concept, advertising campaign or familiar snack can all have an interesting story behind them. Sometimes that story is about the person who invented something, while other times it is about how a product became part of everyday life or how a particular food found its way into popular culture. Grubbits gives those stories a place to be explored.
Food Has a Story
Some of the most interesting food stories are hiding in plain sight. The packaging sitting on a grocery-store shelf may have an inventor behind it, a familiar snack may have a history stretching back generations and an ordinary kitchen object may reveal something about how people lived and ate decades ago.
Grubbits enjoys digging into those stories and looking at familiar things from a different angle. The archive has explored subjects ranging from food inventions and packaging to unusual food facts, restaurant culture, consumer products and the people responsible for many of the things we encounter every day.
That curiosity is what keeps the subject matter broad. One story might explore the history of a food invention, while another might look at a product, a restaurant trend or an unusual moment in food culture.
More Than What’s on the Plate
Food doesn’t exist in isolation. It connects with movies, television, music, advertising, technology, business and nostalgia, and those connections can sometimes be more interesting than the food itself.
A restaurant can become part of a city’s identity, a food product can become a cultural icon and a simple snack can bring back memories that have been sitting quietly in the back of someone’s mind for decades. Grubbits explores those connections because they help explain why food occupies such a large place in our personal and cultural lives.
The site has also explored food-related entertainment, restaurant stories, consumer products and unusual food phenomena, allowing the publication to move naturally between food and the wider culture surrounding it.
A Different Kind of Food Publication
Grubbits isn’t intended to be a traditional food magazine, and that is part of its personality. The publication can look at food history one day and something completely unexpected the next, following whatever subject happens to reveal an interesting story.
That flexibility allows Grubbits to explore the lighter side of food as well. A strange product, an unusual promotion, an unexpected food trend or a forgotten piece of culinary history can all become worthwhile subjects when there is a good story hiding underneath them.
The common thread is curiosity, combined with a willingness to have some fun along the way.
Created and Published by Tony Medeiros
Grubbits was created and is published by Tony Medeiros, whose wider publishing work includes Sandbox World and MTL Resto Rap. Tony’s interest in food extends well beyond restaurant reviews, covering food culture, restaurant history, cookbooks, products, inventions and the often surprising relationship between food and popular culture.
Tony’s personal writing, publishing history and broader creative work can be found at TonyMedeiros.com, including the About Tony Medeiros page, which serves as the central home for information about his work and publishing history. Grubbits maintains its own identity and editorial personality while remaining part of Tony’s wider publishing world.
Part of a Larger Publishing World
Grubbits, Sandbox World and MTL Resto Rap are separate publications with different editorial purposes, even though they share a connection through Tony Medeiros. Sandbox World explores the broader world of pop culture, entertainment, books, comics, music, technology and nostalgia, while MTL Resto Rap focuses specifically on Montreal restaurants and food culture.
Grubbits occupies a different space within that publishing network by taking a broader and often more playful look at food and the stories surrounding it. The three publications allow different subjects to have their own homes while remaining connected through a common interest in storytelling, culture and the things people enjoy.
An Archive of Food Stories
Over time, Grubbits has become more than a collection of individual food articles. Its growing archive provides a record of the products, inventions, restaurants, trends, stories and cultural moments that have captured attention over the years.
Some subjects are timeless, while others capture a particular moment that might otherwise disappear. By documenting both the familiar and the unusual, Grubbits allows readers to look at food from perspectives they may not have considered before.
That is especially important in a world where food trends can disappear almost as quickly as they arrive. Today’s unusual product can become tomorrow’s forgotten memory, and sometimes those forgotten stories are the ones worth bringing back.
Still Hungry for Stories
There will always be another food invention to discover, another restaurant story to explore, another product with an unexpected history and another connection between food and popular culture waiting to be uncovered. That endless supply of stories is what keeps Grubbits moving forward.
The goal is not simply to tell readers what something is, but to explore why it exists, where it came from and what makes it interesting. Sometimes the answer is historical, sometimes it is cultural and sometimes the answer is simply that the story is too much fun not to tell.
That is the spirit of Grubbits: food, curiosity, history, entertainment and a little bit of fun, all served together.