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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 move beyond its own platform through a partnership with Airbnb, allowing guests to order chef-prepared meals directly through Airbnb as part of their short-term rental…
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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 close its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores. The announcement marks the end of an initiative that began with lofty ambitions. After launching its…
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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, AI-powered assistants hovering over the stove. But during a conversation I had with a panel of kitchen insiders a couple of weeks ago in Las…
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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 the show floor in Las Vegas. Instead, the company’s newest product, launching on Kickstarter tomorrow, is something much more familiar, closer in spirit to the…
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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, I learned that sugary snacks shoot my blood sugar into the stratosphere, salads and veggies keep it at a manageable level, and light exercise, even…
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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 managers. Against that backdrop, I led a conversation on the food tech stage about whether robots may soon take over the kitchen. In a session…
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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 for the big show in Las Vegas. With all the coverage rolling in, the product’s inventor, Scott Heimendinger, could feel confident that everything was going…
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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 places like Seattle, where I live, because such care is given to getting the fish to market quickly. But according to a new venture-backed startup…
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Is the world of chocolate heading toward the same fate as the dodo bird? It may be a surprise to some to consider that a centuries-old, worldwide favorite like chocolate is on its way out, but the reality is that most experts agree that climate change, ingredient shortages, rising prices, and other global pressures have…
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After spending half a decade (and $150 million in funding) developing recombinant proteins made via precision fermentation, Remilk announced last week the launch of what it’s calling New Milk in partnership with Gad Dairies, one of Israel’s largest dairy distributors. Remilk announced that under the new partnership, they and Gad will begin a nationwide rollout…
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A few weeks ago, the philanthropic investment platform Food System Innovations announced that it had received a $2 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund. FSI’s non-profit group NECTAR has been building a large dataset of consumers’ sensory responses to alt proteins, and the grant will help NECTAR to continue working on, in partnership with Stanford University,…
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Nearly two decades ago, Eliot Horowitz launched a company with a couple of cofounders that would be pivotal in the early days of big data, helping to create more scalable solutions, lower costs and also reducing the need for deep technical expertise needed in setting up big and messy databases. The company, which would eventually…
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