The June Food+Tech Meetup featured five startups that are revolutionizing the restaurant industry, including Yumspring, Clean Plates, Mirth, Single Platform and BuzzTable. Presente[...]
The 5th Annual Computer Cooking Contest invites individuals, research groups and companies applying AI technologies to home cooking - such as case-based reasoning, semantic technol[...]
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 [...]
In anticipation of the impending challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050 , the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute [...]
PBS's America Revealed released a short clip visualizing a New York City Domino pizza delivery route, which went viral thanks to some influential blogs. The spread of the video off[...]
What can tweets tell us about global food consumption and its impact on emotional well-being? FoodMood is an interactive data visualization project that aims to measure global food[...]
Americans may be spending less money on food, but dollars saved are just being spent on the resulting costs of poor health that plague the nation.
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The winning project of the Quirky + GE Project is Milkmaid, is a quart size glass milk jug that can sense when your milk will go bad. Milk is becoming an object of interest for tho[...]
Snack Data is a visual database of snack foods. Created by Beau Johnson, each food illustration includes a description and tasting note with each of his snack illustrations- 176 t[...]
Two innovative Kickstarter campaigns providing insights into future trends for home cooking tools - video, increased focus on technique, interative iPad experiences and voice-enabl[...]
Peer-to-peer sharing, traceability and enterprise software are just a few of the ways technology is catalyzing a flexible, resilient and sustainable food system. With food tech as[...]
"How do I use the internet to attract more customers?" is one of the most frequent questions asked by restaurant and bar owners. While listing services and online ordering websites[...]
Interactive design agency Teehan+Lax's "Labs" has developed a milk jug and Android mobile app that alert you when you are low on milk in your refrigerator .[...]
More and more restaurants, supermarkets, universities, hospitals, and food service providers are trying to figure out how they begin to source ingredients locally. FarmersWeb, a ne[...]
Most years there is a dominant tech solution at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA). Not this year. This year, we saw a range of technologies clustered around a common t[...]
San Francisco’s growing Food and Tech community gathered together to explore the state of the emerging sector at the recent Food Startups Meetup, featuring industry leaders from: F[...]
APIs are transforming the way we eat. Whether it’s at home, or when you are dining out, consumers (and developers) are empowered like never before. The combination of a great us[...]
Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life - over food- by reducing what they have identified as the "barriers to entertaining." Last wee[...]
While there are several ways technology can be leveraged to package information about food products and transform it into helpful information for consumers, a main component of any[...]
ScanAvert, a mobile application that helps consumers with dietary restrictions to choose safe groceries is much more than a mobile grocery advisor, allowing users to find and track[...]
In this video from his talk at The Long Now Foundation in 2009, Michael Pollan discusses the feasibility of genetically engineered crops designed to support sustainable agricultur[...]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new resource that will make its agricultural development strategy a whole lot easier. The [...]