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.[...]
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) helps farmers around the world share the risk and bounty of their harvest with those in their region. But what happens when your “community” [...]
Looking for new and interesting gifts for the food nerds in our life? We’ve got you covered with our top product, app, book, and tasting box picks. These gifts are per[...]
Windowfarms, the open source hydroponic farming system and social network, has raised over $257,307 dollars on Kickstarter. The Windowfarms Project's success is a clear indication[...]
The average American in 2009 consumed almost an ounce and a half of cheese a day, according to the Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System of the Economic Research Service (ERS)[...]
A new study analyzes Allrecipe.com's 46,337 recipes, 1,976,920 user reviews, and data from about 530,609 users to understand the fundamentals of cooking and user preferences. [...]
San Francisco’s growing Food and Tech community gathered together to explore the state of the emerging sector at a Food Startups Meetup, organized by Matthew Wise, Q&A p[...]
The weather has not been kind to farmers this year. Extreme Thanksgiving, designed by Resource Media, visualizes how your Thanksgiving dinner may have been affected by the element[...]
This week’s Infographic of the Week is a collection of data essential for those interested in the restaurant, shopping and meal preparation habits of those in the U.S.[...]
Grocery list and recipe search startup Ziplist uses a cadre of advanced technologies to make shopping and marketing easier and personalized, including natural language processing, [...]
The History Channel created an elegant infographic about Halloween (yes, elegant – look at the colors!) detailing everything from the number of children who trick or treat, t[...]
Entrepreneurial Opportunity: There is huge potential for creating recipe, restaurant nutrition and grocery shopping tools that cater to non-English speakers. Additionally, educati[...]
In recognition of National School Lunch Week held this week from October 10-14, 2011, the University of Southern California’s Masters of Arts in Teaching Program has develope[...]
The recent “Food Dialogues” - organized and funded by the year old U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance - has a multi-million dollar annual budget, and the membership of some of the [...]
What attracted me to Foodfolio is that it is being used by grandmothers and mothers who want to preserve their recipes for the next generation. And if Foodfolio is helping that ca[...]
When I was a kid in the 80s, my Mom would tell me to eat everything on my plate - because kids were starving in Ethiopia. There came a time when that argument started to seem ridic[...]
Only one year after launching, semantic recipe site Yummly just broke through to 2 million monthly unique visitors, says CEO and co-founder Dave Feller. What’s been the secre[...]
*Jameson is a guest blogger for Food+Tech Connect and a middle school student at Sts. Philip and James School in Long Island, NY.* One in three Americans suffer from obesity[...]
In what interesting ways are food tech innovators using Google+? Joining Studiofeast founder Mike Lee for his first Google+ cooking demonstration two weeks ago opened my eyes to ju[...]
Meet Carly Chamberlain, co-founder of Gusta, a new platform that aims to help supper clubs, pop-up restaurants, and artisan teachers connect with 'foodies,' manage events, and buil[...]
This past Sunday I got to join Mike Lee of Studiofeast for his first Google+ Hangout Cooking Class. Google+ Hangouts is a free video conferencing service that allows you video cha[...]