Tomorrow (Sunday, July 31) I will be joining Mike Lee of Studiofeast for the Google+ Hangout cooking lesson he’s hosting at 6pm EST. Mike and collaborator Soo Baik will be de[...]
"What do I want to eat?" In the era of the Web, where everyone is an expert, this seemingly simple question is becoming increasingly more difficult to answer. How do we sift throug[...]
One of the great challenges of building a startup is ensuring that your product meets market demand. This seems to be particularly true for data-driven startups, whose initial prod[...]
You are growing, growing, growing. But alas, you have 80 plums, and no lettuce. What do you do? Well, you can set them outside of your apartment and hope they magically get traded[...]
Lilly’s Table, a weekly subscription service that offers seasonal recipes and meal plans, is the brainchild of a former personal chef, Lilly Steirer. Her idea is very near and dea[...]
Meet Dan Berger and Matt Tendler, co-founders of Social Tables, a newly launched social networking site geared towards both event planners and event guests. I was first introduced [...]
Online business directory eLocal USA created the following infographic to visualize the true environmental, social, and economic impacts of our purchases. (Click to enlarge) Source[...]
Meet Ying Guo founder of Growing Gardens Growing Kids, a pilot project in the South Bronx aimed at teaching kids how to grow fresh produce. Ying is currently leveraging a customiza[...]
Non-technical startup founders often struggle to find technical co-founders. Entrepreneur Emil Petrone has a solution: quit your job, leave your home for two months, and teach your[...]
Media artist and Eyebeam Resident Stefani Bardin is outraged by the way that nutritional information is currently obscured and delivered, which causes detrimental effects to our he[...]
In this video from the INTERACTION eleven conference, Carl DiSalvo speaks about the growBot Garden project. The project brings together designers, researchers, artists, farmers, ga[...]
John Reinhardt recently launched the urban agriculture zoning and food sovereignty ordinance mapson his blog Grown in the City. Among other things covered, Reinhardt and his brothe[...]
Meet Ryan Charles, co-founder of Consmr a new social sharing website for consumer packaged goods. The site allows you to rate, review, and check-in to grocery and drugstore product[...]
Meet Jonathan Shapiro, Founder of the recently launched Grubster, a new iPhone application and website that allows you to search for recommendations on specific dishes at a restaur[...]
My interview with Miriam Simun about her project making cheese from human breast milk, posted on both Food+Tech Connect and Grist, provoked a substantial amount of conversation. We[...]
“We knew that the data contained in the stack of weekly circulars on our dining room table was valuable, but could be much more valuable if it were presented in a more useful[...]
Food is leading the way for digital innovation in the publishing world. Gourmet Live, a whole new kind of interactive content experience, and Foodpress, WordPress.com’s first[...]
The Internet has allowed for a democratization of ‘the expert.’ Restaurants and consumers must contend with the newly empowered voices of authority, whose feedback gets[...]
Health | Tech | Food Infographic ReelView more presentations from Luminary Labs. Last week, Luminary Labs hosted Health | Tech | Food, a Social Media Week event that brought togeth[...]
We go online for restaurant recommendations, recipes, dating, networking, and finding activity or interest groups, among other things. As our world becomes increasingly social, a g[...]
“We also think that if people feel they can use the data for other purposes besides viewing it on Real Time Farms, they’ll be more likely to want to participate. It’s a win-w[...]
What kind of restaurant search experience do you look for? There is certainly no shortage of web-based restaurant social review and recommendation platforms. The first generation o[...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences? Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller[...]