As a long-time food industry exec, BlueNalu President and CEO Lou Cooperhouse knew there were established food industry techniques his company could borrow from when building cell-based seafood. “It’s a much bigger toolbox,” said Cooperhouse. “You can embrace some of the technologies that industry uses, and create a product that absolutely can meet the sensory…
While I may have missed my annual sojourn to sin city for CES this year, I may soon be able to get something akin to walking the Vegas strip just by heading on down to my local grocery store. That’s because, at least according to The Spoon’s Chris Albrecht, grocery stores will soon resemble the…
While the plant-based meat and milk space has seen incredible momentum the last couple of years, cheese has been another story. It’s not that anyone hasn’t tried. Companies like Treeline have been making vegan cheese for a while, and they’ve certainly found their niche among vegans. Still, for those of us non-vegans who want to…
On this week’s episode of Food Tech Show, the Spoon editorial team talks about what they found walking the virtual exhibit halls of CES 2021 (answer: not much). The good news is we also had Food Tech Live, the Spoon’s annual food tech showcase that happens during CES week. Normally we’re in Vegas for FTL,…
Will Patrick has spent much of his career thinking about how to build things. During his stints at places like Google[x] where he worked on projects such Project Wing, Google’s drone delivery service, he’d gained an appreciation for the toolsets that helped innovators in the world of hardware and software rapidly innovate and accelerate their…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that bee colonies are collapsing around the world due to a number of persistent threats such as global warming, pesticides and yes, murder hornets. And while that may present a challenge to the $7 billion honey industry, the focus on honey production is itself problematic…
In this week’s podcast, the Spoon team talks about some of the lessons learned from last week’s ghost kitchen deep dive. One of the key takeaways from the day is there are lots of different approaches to rolling out a ghost kitchen strategy. Some operators simply leverage unused kitchen space in their own facility to…
This week the Spoon editorial team got together to talk about the latest food tech news, including whether or not cultured meat would venture into, well, humans. We all got grossed out (well, most of us) and decided a Mike Burger is a bad idea. But we did agree the food industry will have to…
It’s another Food Tech Show podcast! The Spoon editorial team got together this week to discuss our favorite stories of the week, including: McDonald’s announced their new plant-based burger, the McPlant, and everyone was confused The Golden Arches also talked about how technology will change the McDonald’s experience in coming years, especially when it comes…
Happy Friday! Heading out early for the final weekend before election day? Listen to The Food Tech Show podcast on your way! In this week’s editor roundtable episode of The Food Tech Show, we talk about whether lab-grown meat can scale like the Internet, Ordermark’s massive new funding round earmarked to help them build out…
Whether you’re someone who is in awe of the mastery of great chefs like Heston Blumenthal, enjoys the work of The Modernist Cuisine, or are just a fan of modern cutting-edge cooking, you owe a debt of gratitude to one Harold McGee. That’s because McGee helped change the world of food with the publication his…
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This week the Spoon team got together to talk about yet another potentially controverisal bit of palm reading tech from Amazon and other news from around the food tech world, including: Bear intros their next-generation front-of-house server bot, Servi Shiok gets more funding for its lab-grown shellfish A new water vessel that kills germs with…