In this video from TEDxManhattan, James Beard Foundation Executive Vice President Mitchell Davis talks about taste as a powerful tool for social change. [...]
Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle have produced a beautiful stop-motion film that uses vegetables to visualize Pollan's "Food Rules" talk, given at the Royal Society for the enco[...]
This week's infographic is a series of charts and graphs with fascinating information culled from an online survey by Nielsen of more than 25,000 people from 56 countries. [...]
Two interesting surveys about technology use in restaurants predict trends for 2012. But the specifics of those trends seem to be lacking, and to find out more, Food+Tech Connect [...]
Americans will purchase 5 percent of the year's chocolate this week for Valentine's Day. But where does that chocolate come from and how is it grown, picked, processed and shipped[...]
For several months our team at Good Eggs has been researching the local food phenomenon around the country. We’re looking for ways in which technology can help grow and sustain loc[...]
Last Friday, Food+Tech Connect posted “Carbs are Killing You” as the Infographic of the Week, and we received almost 70 comments on the visual. The responses are interesting and ex[...]
Processed food like ramen noodles and gummy bears are bad for you. Now, for the first time ever, you can see how for yourself.
Artist and provacateur Stefani Bardin's newest pro[...]
As modern technology is adopted in widespread regions of our planet, it can provide poor people with access to many forms of media. Innovations like the internet and satellite tech[...]
After all those years of not eating red meat and cutting back on the mayonnaise, science now tells us it's carbs, not fat, making Americans overweight. This interesting infographi[...]
If you could plan your diet so that you got paid every time you chose a salad over a burger, would you chose the salad? would you chose the salad?
IBM “Master Inventor” Michael[...]
Public protest of the government's attempt to restrict information on the internet through SOPA / PIPA has postponed the debate for the time being. But the question of open and fr[...]
The tech industry has brought about many recent innovations in business, but perhaps one of the most important for those in food+tech is the trend toward monetizing knowledge. No l[...]
The advice awaited me in my inbox Monday morning. “Use fat-free or low-fat evaporated milk in place of cream in coffee and tea for a smooth taste, more calcium, and little or no fa[...]
Looking for programs in the farm bill related to public health, international development or commodity support? The Visualizer is an invaluable tool that allows viewers to interac[...]
Any company building apps or platforms to improve the consumer shopping experience knows that grocery product data is EXPENSIVE, costing $100,000+ annually to license. This data is[...]
You have likely heard the paradox: 40 percent of food produced in the U.S. is thrown away (enough food trash to fill the Rose Bowl every day), yet it’s now estimated that one[...]
The U.S. Agency for International Development is celebrating 50 years as an organization. And after so many years of focusing on agriculture, the organization clearly has much know[...]
Several new initiatives have boasted high tech help for farmers in the face of climate change. But what do we currently know about how global warming will affect agriculture and c[...]
On the Friday before Christmas, Food+Tech Connect brings you a graphic from the USDA's Economic Reporting Service to help put things into perspective.[...]
A comprehensive study released in October by Agro-Insight confirmed that while farmers in developing nations want access to agricultural information through instructional videos, [...]
This week's graphic compares the money given in subsidies to eight cotton farms in California to that spent on the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program supplying snacks to elementary [...]
FarmPlate.com is offering one year of free online marketing to farmers and small food-related businesses affected by Irene. Listing over 35,000 businesses across the country, FarmP[...]
The National Research Council released a report today stating that "publicly posting enforcement and testing data...on the Internet could have substantial benefits, including the p[...]