Interactive design agency Teehan+Lax's "Labs" has developed a milk jug and Android mobile app that alert you when you are low on milk in your refrigerator .[...]
More and more restaurants, supermarkets, universities, hospitals, and food service providers are trying to figure out how they begin to source ingredients locally. FarmersWeb, a ne[...]
Most years there is a dominant tech solution at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA). Not this year. This year, we saw a range of technologies clustered around a common t[...]
San Francisco’s growing Food and Tech community gathered together to explore the state of the emerging sector at the recent Food Startups Meetup, featuring industry leaders from: F[...]
APIs are transforming the way we eat. Whether it’s at home, or when you are dining out, consumers (and developers) are empowered like never before. The combination of a great us[...]
While consumer demand for information about where our food is coming from and how it's grown is increasing, thus far there has been relatively little interest in the people that ac[...]
New York’s first ever Food Book Fair is this weekend, May 4th-6th, in Brooklyn, at Williamsburg’s newly opened Wythe Hotel. The event is a celebration of food wr[...]
Rev Ciancio demystifies 10 social networks, helping restauranteurs learn how to use these platforms to foster brand awareness, online engagement and better customer service.[...]
Two student groups tackling hunger and agriculture management challenges emerged as winners in the U.S. Finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup Software Design Competition.[...]
Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life - over food- by reducing what they have identified as the "barriers to entertaining." Last wee[...]
Food gets it's fair share of bad press these days, and for good reason. Food+Tech Connect wants to help you explore new ideas for how information and technology can be used to chan[...]
What is the human impact of inefficiencies in how your tax dollars are spent? In 2010 the U.S. spent $2 billion total on international food aid, but $491 million of those ta[...]
Studiofeast explores new approaches to cooking based on dish structure, rather than traditional recipe format. They believe this will result in a much more fulfilling experience in[...]
While there are several ways technology can be leveraged to package information about food products and transform it into helpful information for consumers, a main component of any[...]
In this video from his talk at The Long Now Foundation in 2009, Michael Pollan discusses the feasibility of genetically engineered crops designed to support sustainable agricultur[...]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new resource that will make its agricultural development strategy a whole lot easier. The [...]
Armed with a dream investment team, and $6 million in Series A Funding, semantic recipe website Yummly is getting ready to build the world's first 'digital kitchen platform.' [...]
It is clear that there is a real need, and a real opportunity, to use data to tell the stories of the food movement and to support advancements in agriculture, advocacy, science an[...]
Cerealize, a new subscription website that allows consumers to design custom blended, organic breakfast cereal and have a box of it shipped to their home, took first prize for this[...]
This post outlines the rough prototype of a dinner planning app built r to customize, scale, and shop for a menu, then organize all of the required steps into one master to-do lis[...]
The latest infographic from Column Five and Massive Health maps the Satiety Index against the Inverted Glycemic Index to determine which foods fill you up and keep you satisfied.
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