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The Food Tech Show: Ghost Kitchens, $1 Keto Cookies & the Magical Egg Cooker

The Spoon editors got together to talk about some of the most interesting food tech news of the past week (as well as complain about high-priced cookies).

Some of the stories we talk about on the pod include:

As always, you can listen to The Food Tech Show in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download the show direct to your device or just click play below.

Food Tech Show: Food Tech 25 And Cricket Flour Cupcakes

If you’re driving somewhere for the 4th of July weekend (don’t forget the mask and hand san), why don’t you download the latest episode of the Food Tech Show podcast?

This week the editor team got together to discuss some of our favorite companies from this year’s Food Tech 25, the spike in COVID cases as restaurants reopen, and a system for growing meal worms to eat at home. We also share our food plans for the 4th of July (Jenn’s gonna bake cricket flour cupcakes).

As always, you can listen to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download direct to your device or just click play below.

Also, if you have a spare moment this weekend, please leave a nice review in iTunes or Apple Podcasts!

The Food Tech Show: Talking Food Tech & Racial Injustice With Journey Foods’ Riana Lynn

I sat down this week with Riana Lynn, the CEO of Journey Foods, to talk about her journey as a black female food tech entrepreneur.

From her time in the Obama White House, to working for former McDonalds CEO Don Thompson at venture firm Cleveland Avenue, to her latest startup that uses AI to help CPG companies make healthier and more sustainable food products, Riana’s had a fascinating ride over the past decade. But, as she told me in our conversation, the two consistent and recurring themes throughout her career have been food and technology.

We talk about her journey through these worlds as well as:

  • How food tech and food innovation could address some of the systemic problems in the food system that disproportionately impact people of color.
  • How many of today’s current food trends like plant-based food have long histories in black culture.
  • How technologies like blockchain could be well-suited to modernize antiquated systems designed to help those in food insecure situations get better access to food assistance.
  • What she thinks the long term impact could be from the conversation we are having about systemic racism.
  • Some ways in which she thinks the world of food tech and venture capital could be more welcoming to people of color.

Some of you may have read Riana’s guest post last weekend at The Spoon. She and her team are churning out some really compelling and thoughtful content over at the Journey Foods’ blog, so I suggest you check it out.

As always, you can listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or just click play below.

The Food Tech Show Podcast: Will You Be Dining With a Mannequin?

Most of us are eager to start dining in again at restaurants, but are we ready?

We discuss the huge spectrum of responses we got when we asked our readers if they’re ready to start dining in restaurants again on this week’s Food Tech Show, as well as some of the innovative ways restaurants are dealing with dining in the era of COVID.

One restaurant is putting mannequins at tables as a way to fill in the gaps between socially distanced diners. Another restaurant in Amsterdam is seating diners in glass houses.

Other topics discussed on this week’s show include a small bowl-food-for-one cooking system looking to make its way into college dorms and small apartments, and a leap forward in cross-industry collaboration for food traceability.

Just click play below or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Food Tech Show: Fake Nuggets & Real Goodbyes

It was a sad week at The Spoon as we said goodbye to Catherine Lamb.

Catherine is heading off to Chicago to get her MBA at Kellogg University. After that she’ll take over the world, or at least the world of food tech.

I met Catherine for the first time when she volunteered at the Smart Kitchen Summit in 2017. More than one person came up to me during the conference and told me I really needed to hire this person. I interviewed her a couple weeks later and did just that.

If you want to hear the audio version of me getting sappy, you’ll have to listen to the podcast. In addition to saying goodbye to Catherine, we also discuss the following stories:

To listen, just click play below, download the podcast direct to your device, or find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Food Tech Show: The Story Behind Spoon Plus

We write and talk a lot about product launches here at The Spoon, but we look inward on this week’s Food Tech Show as we discuss the backstory behind Spoon Plus, our membership community we launched last week.

If you’re a blog or online content nerd, this one is for you as we talk about our previous efforts at one of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech blogs and how the world of online memberships has evolved over the past decade. We also discuss how we’d been planning on building Plus before COVID-19, but how the pandemic gave the launch a little more urgency.

If you’re a food tech nerd, we’ve got you covered too, because in this show we also talk about these stories:

As always, you can listen to The Food Tech Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download it directly to your device or just click play below.

The Food Tech Show: Why is Amazon Giving Away Food Network Kitchen Access?

The Spoon editor team got together this week to talk about some of the top food tech stories, including Gavin Newsom’s move to start working with restaurants to deliver food to seniors and asking why Amazon’s decided to give away the Food Network Kitchen service for free in coming months.

Other stories discuss include Cheetah’s funding round and the recent spate of chickpea protein investments.

As always, you can listen to the Food Tech Show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download it direct to your device or just click play below to listen to it right now.

If you’d like to watch the video of our podcast recording, you can check it out on Crowdcast.

The Food Tech Show: The People Are Growing Yeast and Plants at Home Episode

It’s a very specific cultural moment when a Twitter thread about deriving yeast at home from the skin of fruits goes viral, but here we are.

The Spoon editorial team got together this week to discuss said Twitter thread from a Ginkgo yeast geneticist Sudeep Agarwala. We also chatted about a few other stories, including:

As always, you can find the Food Tech Show in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.

You can also download this episode to your device or just click play below.

If you’d like to join the Spoon editorial team next week when they record the podcast, our next live podcast recording on Crowdcast is next Tuesday at 10 AM PST. You can sign up here.

The Food Tech Show: We’re All Eating Comfort Food Now

How has life in quarantine changed the way you eat?

Here at the Spoon, we’re all eating comfort food now. Most of us (i.e., not Catherine) are consuming more processed food. Based on what we’re hearing, we’re not alone.

The Spoon editor team got together this week to discuss our dietary shifts and other stories, including:

Did you know you can watch us record our podcasts live? Follow us on Crowdcast and you’ll get notified next week when we record the show.

As always, you can listen to the Food Tech Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. You can also download it direct to your device or just click play below.

The Food Tech Show: Going Off-Premise During a Pandemic

With dine-in still shut down in most places around the US (and the world), restaurants are trying to survive by going off-premise through a combination of delivery and takeout. The Spoon’s Chris Albrecht caught up with Chowly‘s Sterling Douglass to talk about the rapidly changing restaurant landscape and to discuss strategies for going off-premise.

This conversation took place as part of The Spoon’s COVID-19 Virtual Strategy Summit. If you missed the summit and would like to see some of what you missed, all the sessions are now available to watch.

You can get this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download direct to your device or just click play below.

Food Tech Show: The ‘Looking for Bright Spots in a Dark Time’ Episode

Needless to say, when you’re talking and writing about coronavirus all the time, you can get a little down.

So on this week’s podcast, we thought we’d focus on some bright spots, highlighting stories of people and companies who are innovating to help others or are just well-positioned to succeed in an otherwise down time.

Finally, a reminder we’re hosting a virtual COVID-19 strategy summit for food and restaurant people on Monday and we’ll be talking to smart people with good ideas for dealing the crisis.

As always, you can listen to the Food Tech Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download it direct to your device or just click play below.

The Food Tech Show: Instacarting Parents & Baking Bread Might be Our New Normal

As the pandemic rolls on and we stay at home while social distancing, many of us are exploring new ways of doing things.

For some this may mean Instacarting one’s parents. For others, it may mean making sourdough bread and showing off your efforts on Instagram.

The Spoon crew all dialed in from their remote locations to discuss how our behavior has changed as well as the continuing fallout of COVID-19 on restaurants. We also discuss the surge in hiring in the grocery sector as people shift their behavior to online shopping and whether or not COVID-19 could mean a comeback for meal kits.

As always, you can listen to the Food Tech Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. You can also download it direct to your device or just click play below.