I wrote this article over three months ago. It’s taken a while to hit publish. I’ve wanted to share my story and be truly transparent but getting fired is a hard thing to talk abou[...]
Real Time Farms launched the FixAntibiotics Food Finder. The first of its kind map enables consumers to find retail locations, farmers markets, farms and restaurants selling meat [...]
Cerealize, a new subscription website that allows consumers to design custom blended, organic breakfast cereal and have a box of it shipped to their home, took first prize for this[...]
Often startups try to attract talented teammates by offering benefits like ping-pong tables, video games, or gym memberships. While those things are valuable, a culture of good foo[...]
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 [...]
One of eight SXSW's Interactive Accelerator Finalists in the Innovative Web Technologies category announced today, AgLocal aims to use technology to empower carnivores to buy meat [...]
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[...]
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[...]
Speculation on 2012’s food trends are everywhere, from the newest “ethnic flavors” to the next super berry. But more interesting are the ways experts see technol[...]
What could be more crowd pleasing than an infographic about coffee? How about an interactive visualization that allows coffee drinkers to chart their own caffeine use and preferen[...]
[This article is part of a series of Food+Tech Connect 2011 Trend Reports. Others in the series include Recipe Websites, Apps & Publishing and Where Does Your Food Come From?][...]
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[...]
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[...]
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, [...]
One year ago, Anne-Victoire Monrozier and Grégoire Japiot, a wine company owner and a tech professional, decided to create a BarCamp - an open, participatory, workshopping event - [...]
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[...]
There are a lot of important lessons about building a successful online marketplace that can be learned from our experience working with Zaarly to source 20 lbs of grass-fed beef c[...]
My current work focuses on creating software that improves the home cooking experience. Over the past two years, I've worked with food writer Michael Ruhlman, and together we've st[...]
The digitization of food has ensured a critical mass of content surrounding many, but not all of the food choices we make. Web and mobile restaurant platforms provide recommendatio[...]
Food+Tech Connect asked me to answer the question, how can information and technology be used to hack the food system? I have seen so many start-ups in the food space that I can'[...]
Looks like Google is at it again, this time with a nifty weather layer you can choose to view in Google Maps. And while handy for city travelers, or in making conversation with you[...]
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[...]