In this five part series, Bob Wall breaks down how created the interactive mapping system for the food sovereignty, urban agriculture zoning, and food policy council maps. In part [...]
Have you ever wanted to scavenge for your own edibles? Maybe you passed a neighbors apple tree and saw rotting fruit on the floor or were in a neighborhood park and wondered if any[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Food+Tech Connect is dedicated to building community for the growing food and tech sector- both online and off. I am thrilled to be working with Emily Cavalier of Mouth of The Bord[...]
The Product Group Meetup: Jeremy Fisher on Dinevore from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo. The January Product Group Meetup featured Dinevore founder Jeremy Fisher. In this video, Fisher[...]
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead ti[...]
If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that many of the startups I’ve interviewed are data-driven. Why? Because addressing even the seemingly most bas[...]
If you bake, then you know that it is a science. Experimentation with a recipe may lead to disastrous results. Here are two useful apps, Ratio and Food Substitutes, that are reco[...]
Gourmet Magazine’s closure last year “presaged the death of magazines,” lamented Jeff Jarvis in a blog post about the end of the longest running food-magazine in [...]
I’ve been a pescatarian for 17 years. This past year I made the decision to try my best to eat only sustainably grown and sourced seafood. While there were a number of reason[...]
It was 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Soho, the streets lay quiet and Broadway was not yet filled with shopping tourists. Though one floor above, at co-working space Soho Haven[...]
Thank you so much to everyone who came out yesterday for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon! I will be covering all of the interesting people, projects, and outcomes from the event [...]
Oprah’s is in love it. It’s Cyber Week. Have you bought an iPad yet? When I first played around with an iPad back in April, I didn’t get it. [I didn’t Tw[...]
This Saturday December 5, food enthusiasts of all kinds including hackers, urban farmers, restauranteurs, designers, and public figures, will come together to hack on open food sys[...]
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What’s “the haps” with apps? I love that the word “app” is short for both appetizers and applications. It is also analogous to the mission of this blog, Food + Te[...]
I am thrilled to announce that Nichelle Stephens will be joining Food+Tech Connect as our resident app expert. Be sure not to miss Nichelle’s Monday posts on the latest apps [...]
“Instead of using politics to drive resources in Chicago, in terms of what grocery stores should be prioritized and given incentives and which ones maybe not. I said, how abo[...]
In 2010, the USDA National Farmers Market Directory counted over 6,200 operational farmers markets in the country. That’s more than a 16 percent growth in farmers markets from 2009[...]
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Do you ever feel overwhelmed when trying to make healthy food decisions? Do you find yourself standing in the aisles of your grocery store trying to navigate ingredient lists, nutr[...]