Why the Future of Highway Food Might Look More Like a Food Court
If you’ve ever stopped for food in a one-exit town along the freeway, there’s a good chance your choices primarily consisted of chips, beef jerky, and days-old sandwiches. But what […]
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Is Your Smart Home About to Start Listening to Your Body?
For most people, the smart home is about convenience: lights that turn on automatically, thermostats that learn schedules, and voice assistants that respond to simple commands. But over the last […]
Can Springhouse Finally Solve the ‘What’s in My Fridge?’ Problem?
Jay Lee and Springhouse want to help us figure out what’s for dinner. Not only that, but they want to do so by keeping an up-to-date inventory of what’s in […]
Are Home Kitchen Marketplaces the Future or a Risk to Consumers?
Almost a decade ago, back in the early days of the Smart Kitchen Summit (SKS) — the event I created about the future of cooking and food — Ashley Colpaart […]
How Learning About Wallaby Milk Drove Dr. Nora Khaldi to Create an AI-Powered Ingredient Discovery Platform
When The Spoon first wrote about Nuritas in 2021, the Dublin-born startup had just raised $45 million to scale its peptide discovery platform. At the time, the company was positioned […]
When You Chew Gum, Hundreds of Thousands of Microplastics Enter Your Saliva. Milliways Wants to Change That.
For years, Tom Raviv thought he was being careful about what he put in his body. Working long hours in mergers and acquisitions, he’d read the ingredients on snack or […]
So You Wanna Know When You’re Gonna Die? Brent Franson and Death Clock Think They Can Tell You
What do you do when your company’s about to die? If you’re Brent Franson, you create an app that tells you when you might expect your own expiration date. The […]
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Where Did Impossible Go Wrong and What Should it Do Now?
When Impossible Foods announced that CEO Peter McGuiness would step down after nearly four years, the company framed the move as a transition “from a position of strength.” For Rachel […]
Why Alex Shirazi Decided the Cultivated Meat Industry Needed a Cookbook
For years, Alex Shirazi has helped tell the story of the cultivated meat industry through conferences, podcasts, and public-facing education. But as these once science-fiction-y products slowly moved from labs […]
Fiber’s ‘Signal’ Has Faded in Modern Food. These Two Founders Want to Restore It
For most of its modern history, food deemed healthy came with a tradeoff: it might be good for you, but it probably wouldn’t taste very good, and it would almost […]
Supper at Home Hopes to Provide Recipe for Home Chefs to Build Businesses from Their Kitchens
For more than a decade, startups have built online marketplaces in hopes of turning home kitchens into legitimate food businesses. Unfortunately, for most of that time, while demand existed, the […]
CookUnity Partners With Airbnb to Bring Chef-Created Meals to the Short Term Rental Market
For much of the past decade, CookUnity has operated as a subscription-based prepared meal service built around a network of professional chefs. This week, the company made its first major […]