Category: Podcasts
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Need something to listen to on your Monday morning commute? Good news: The Spoon gang got together after a little summer podcast break to talk about some of the top food tech stories of the week. The stories discussed on this weekly food tech wrapup include: JOKR and Too Good To Go Team Up to…
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Paul Shapiro wears lots of hats – CEO, founder, advisor, podcaster, author – but the one constant through in all those roles is that of evangelist. This is obvious to anyone who follows Shapiro on social media; the author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World will cheer…
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You get sick, you take a pill right? Not according to Dr. Robert Graham. As a Harvard trained physician and a trained chef, Dr. Graham wants to get at the root cause of our illnesses through diet. Ever since I met Dr. Graham in Japan at the Smart Kitchen Summit in 2019, I’ve watched him…
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Qanon. The Deep State. 5G microchip injections. We live in a golden age of conspiracy theories. These circular reasoning belief systems once relegated to the fringes have entered the mainstream, fueled by social media, validated by politicians and celebrities and calcified by repetition and confirmation bias. Food is no stranger to conspiracy theories. Whether it’s…
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It’s been a while, but The Spoon team (sans a vacationing Chris) recently got together with food tech investor Brian Frank to discuss some of the top stories of the week. The first story was about no matter where we look, signs show restaurant traffic is headed back to post-pandemic levels. Not only are we…
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Why do some alt-protein products succeed while others fizzle? According Jack Bobo, a long-time food industry consultant and author of the new book “Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices“, it’s a matter of timing and what customer segment you are targeting at a particular evolutionary stage of a market. “One of the biggest challenges…
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The gang got together on Friday to talk about some of the week’s most interesting stories. Our guest this week was former Chopped champ and food tech investor Silvia Baldini! The stories we talked about for this live recording of the Food Tech Show include: Eat Just’s GOOD Meat Raises $170M, Oatly IPOs, Has $13B…
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Miyoko Schinner has had an amazing journey as a plant-based food entrepreneur. But that doesn’t mean it was easy. Whether it was the early days in Japan where she ran into the Japanese mafia or her initial struggles trying to scale production for her plant-based cheese recipes in the early days of Miyoko’s Creamery, Schinner’s…
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We humans are resistant to unfamiliar things. But that doesn’t mean we can’t change, and one of the ways in which consumers will change their mind is consistent and repeated exposure to a new idea or concept. The more a consumer hears an idea, the newness and unfamiliarity wears off and it becomes normalized. It…
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It’s another weekly news round up with the Spoon team and this week’s special guest, Ron Shigeta. The stories/topics we discuss this week include: Beyond Meat to Launch Newest Version of its Burgers in U.S. Stores Next Week Singapore is Becoming the Global Future Food Hub Food Waste Innovation is Having a Moment (And So…
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Feeding humans hurtling through space isn’t easy. While today’s astronauts get to eat high quality cuisine made on earth by some of the world’s best cooks, space travel in the future will require entirely new approaches that can grow enough food in space to produce sufficient calories and nutrients for astronaut crews on multiyear interplanetary…
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As cofounder of Clara Foods and Perfect Day, and now the Executive Director of New Harvest, Isha Datar has been working at the forefront of the cellular agriculture industry for a good part of the past decade. Because of this, she’s the perfect first subject-matter expert to interview in Red to Green’s new podcast season…
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