Guest post by Chris Holman, co-owner of Nami Moon Farms. The views expressed here are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the views of Food+Tech Connect. I’m often fasci[...]
In September, we spoke with The Orange Chef Company about Prep Pad, its soon-to-launch quantified cooking kitchen scale. The company had raised 155 percent of its Kickstarter camp[...]
The advent of artificial food dyes has resulted in a bevy of out-of-this world-looking products, like electric colored yogurt sticks, pastel sandwich cookies and numerous nearly-ne[...]
Investments continue to pour into startups tackling healthy eating and meal subscriptions. Last month, Real Food Works, a healthy meal delivery startup, announced it had raised $17[...]
Earlier this year, we spoke with David Spinks, co-founder of online cooking education platform Feast, about how he planned to bring cooking education to the masses. At the time, th[...]
This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
The food and health care industries should collaborate to make each other successful, which would also result in a healthier workforce and society. [...]
Despite the fact that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Network (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) helped lift 4 million people above the official poverty line in 2012, on N[...]
Four months ago, we hosted Hack//Meat Silicon Valley, a hackathon that brought together 250 food industry leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives to develop hardware [...]
In an attempt to scrape massive datasets and “produce something wonderful,” Wired crawled and visualized the Food Network’s database of 49,733 recipes to shed lig[...]
As consumer technology adoption grows, restaurants are trying to figure if and how they should integrate it into their operations. From payment products that aim to boost check ave[...]
A little over three months ago, we hosted Hack//Meat Silicon Valley, a hackathon that brought together 250 food industry leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives to de[...]
While over 60 countries around the world have banned genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or require their labeling, the United States does not. In fact, only recently has the deb[...]
Today is Food Day. More that 4,500 events are taking place across the US to empower people to eat real food. From farmers and health officials to advocacy groups and students, peop[...]
A little over three months ago, we hosted Hack//Meat Silicon Valley, a hackathon that brought together 250 food industry leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives to de[...]
Americans are addicted to sugar. On average we each consumed 130 pounds of the stuff in 2012. To get an idea of just how much that is, check out Jamie Oliver’s wheelbarrow d[...]
Multinational food corporations spend approximately $2 billion annually influencing what kids eat through advertising, promotions and sponsorships. And it’s working. Nearly 1[...]
Many of you have probably heard about the pending doom of inflated food prices. You may have caught a blip or two on the television or seen a headline in the money section of the n[...]
From throwing away your spoiled vegetables to restaurant kitchen scraps, food is the largest single contributor to municipal solid waste in the US, at more than 36 million tons a y[...]
For the past five years, Civil Eats has been the go-to resource for the “good food movement.” It’s published daily news and commentary about the American f[...]
Counting your calories may become much easier thanks to The Orange Chef’s new quantified cooking products. The company will soon be releasing Prep Pad, a digital scale that calcula[...]
Ever wonder why cooking chicken always seems less desirable than preparing a juicy steak or why wine and cheese are a match made in heaven? The answers to such food pairing queries[...]
Thanks to the proliferation of the Food Network, online cooking education websites and recipe blogs, just about anyone can access inspiration for great DIY meals at the click of a [...]