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Armed with a dream investment team, and $6 million in Series A Funding, semantic recipe website Yummly is getting ready to build the world's first 'digital kitchen platform.' [...]
It is clear that there is a real need, and a real opportunity, to use data to tell the stories of the food movement and to support advancements in agriculture, advocacy, science an[...]
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[...]
Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farm[...]
A new food recognition scanner developed by Toshiba Tec may change the way we shop, and potentially the way we maintain information about perishable food. The Object Recognition Sc[...]
There are two interesting pieces of news from last week on the ways social media is being leveraged to share information about food safety concerns, as well as to predict outbreaks[...]
Our SXSW food picks for those attending or following SXSWi on Twitter this week. I will be organizing some impromptu Food+Tech happy hours. Follow the hashtag #SXfoodtech for more [...]
In this senior thesis project, German interaction design students Benedikt Burgmaier and Fabian Kreuzer re-imagine the meat, cheese and fish counter to provide customers with detai[...]
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[...]
This week's infographic is a series of charts and graphs with fascinating information culled from an online survey by Nielsen of more than 25,000 people from 56 countries. [...]
Food and agriculture know are low margin industries. Paul Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer of BrightFarms, a company that designs, finances, builds and operates greenhouse farms [...]
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 [...]
Americans will purchase 5 percent of the year's chocolate this week for Valentine's Day. But where does that chocolate come from and how is it grown, picked, processed and shipped[...]
Despite the media's fixation with the latest, greatest gadget, often times innovation takes place behind the scenes, using technology we don't often hear about. Radio-frequency id[...]
McDonalds recently announced it will no longer include “pink slime” (ammonium hydroxide) in its burgers. But what about all the other chemical additives we’ve never heard of and ca[...]
For several months our team at Good Eggs has been researching the local food phenomenon around the country. We’re looking for ways in which technology can help grow and sustain loc[...]
Today's infographic follows on the heels of last week's amazingly popular Carbs are Killing You visual and the lively conversation, and wish list for health and nutrition apps, tha[...]
Last Friday, Food+Tech Connect posted “Carbs are Killing You” as the Infographic of the Week, and we received almost 70 comments on the visual. The responses are interesting and ex[...]
As modern technology is adopted in widespread regions of our planet, it can provide poor people with access to many forms of media. Innovations like the internet and satellite tech[...]
Looking for programs in the farm bill related to public health, international development or commodity support? The Visualizer is an invaluable tool that allows viewers to interac[...]
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[...]
Chefs Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche of Moto in Chicago, have been experimenting with new ways to prepare and eat food for years. Now, the duo are exploring how the innovations pioneer[...]
Monday, Food+Tech Connect announced the winners of the Farm Bill Hackathon, but several other interesting projects were also created.[...]
Over the weekend the Farm Bill Hackathon brought together (in person and virtually) 120 designers, data scientists, developers, marketing professionals, food policy experts, and US[...]
Knowing where food comes from and how it was grown is a top priority in an increasing number of American households. But aside from costly technological solutions employed by larg[...]
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