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 […]
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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 […]
Amazon Pulls Plug on Decade-Long Dream of the Tech-Powered Grocery Store
Today, Amazon announced it had finally given up on the tech-forward grocery store vision it first unveiled nearly a decade ago. In a press release, the company said it would […]
Why Subtle Tech and Countertop Appliances, Not Robots, Are Driving Kitchen Innovation
For much of the past couple of decades, talk of the future kitchen at CES has conjured tech-forward images of robotic arms sautéing vegetables, humanoids flipping burgers, and, more recently, […]
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Gambit Robotics Hopes to Usher In a New Era of Guided Cooking Without Robots (Yet)
Coming out of CES earlier this month, you might think a new kitchen assistant from a startup called Gambit Robotics would look something like the dozens of humanoid robots roaming […]
Will Giving Everyone a Blood Sugar Monitor Lead to Better Health Outcomes? Maybe, But Only If We Tell People What to Do With The Info
Last year, I used a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) for the first time, and it completely changed how I eat. After a couple of weeks using an over-the-counter Stelo CGM, […]
Hold The Humanoids: Why a Couple Robot Experts & a TV Chef Think The Humanoid Takeover of Food May Never Materialize
Ten years from now, CES 2026 may be remembered as the year robots took over the show floor. Humanoids folded clothing, boxed items, played games, and talked like product marketing […]
Why the Most Interesting Knife at CES Launched Without Its Inventor
This week at CES, a new ultrasonic chef’s knife picked up write-ups in The Verge, Mashable, and a handful of other outlets after debuting at Unveiled, the opening press event […]
Shinkei Hopes Bringing Robotics & AI to the Fishing Boat Leads to Fresher Fish and Less Waste
Walk into almost any grocery store and, chances are, what you see in the fish case is not at peak freshness. You wouldn’t think it’d be that way, especially in […]