Jomaree Pinkard, co-founder and CEO of Hella Cocktail Co., outlines concrete steps businesses and investors can take to foster equity in the food, beverage and hospitality industri[...]
Image Source: New York Times Every week we track the business, tech and investment trends in CPG, retail, restaurants, agriculture, cooking and health, so you don’t have to. Here a[...]
Welcome to our newest series: How to Start a New Career in the Food Industry. For many people, breaking into the food industry can be an intimidating process. Whether you’re [...]
In the recent history of fine dining, there have been a handful of notable dishes that transcend the table and make a statement about how our food system should operate. To name a [...]
The Future of Protein Dinner explores innovations in protein production & consumption from grass-fed & plant-based proteins to insects & cellular agriculture.[...]
Challenging the belief that healthy organic food is expensive and inaccessible, Edible Impacts cooked 3 meals/day for $5-7/person and open sourced the results. [...]
Amid the CA drought, using data from the UNESCO Institute for Water Education & the Water Footprint Network, this graphic explores the water footprints of our food. [...]
We chat with Hampton Creek CEO Josh Tetrick about re-engineering the food system, the wild success of Mayo Gate and why an IPO may be in the startup's future. [...]
Rebecca Chesney of the Institute for the Future imagines a networked food future, in which natural and artificial objects can work in concert with each other.[...]
From new investment funds to accelerator programs to crowdfunding platforms, 26 new private food and agriculture funding sources launched over the past year. We’ve compiled t[...]
One theme that dominated food tech startup news throughout the month was the notion of same-day delivery and solving the problem of the last mile.[...]
As consumer distrust of food labels and food allergies grow, these researchers are developing iPhone tools that will bring transparency to your smartphone.[...]
Kara Rota of Cookstr advocates cooking more and eating less meat, using technology as a means to find tested, trusted recipes outside their comfort zone.[...]
The future of meat is where family farms will use technology to improve profitability by overcoming marketing, distribution and storage challenges. [...]
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[...]
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[...]
This post outlines the rough prototype of a dinner planning app built r to customize, scale, and shop for a menu, then organize all of the required steps into one master to-do lis[...]
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[...]
Adam Hofmann, Director of Marketing and Community Development at Zaarly, discusses creating a format to connect people throughout the food system.[...]
Food+Tech Connect has created a simple time line (with lots of links) below to illustrate the State of the Farm Bill, and to explain that, in the end, the outcome of all this Congr[...]