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  • Nov 10, 2020

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    News, Plus Events, Smart Kitchen Summit, Spoon Plus

    Smart Kitchen Summit 2020 Sessions, Day Three

    Included below are videos from the following sessions: Same-Day Delivery’s Role in the Modern Kitchen, Grocery Store and Beyond – Wilson Rothman and Kelly Caruso The Tech-Powered Grocery Store – Chris Albrecht and Will Glaser Building Resilient Restaurants With Tech in the COVID Era – Chris Carr, Ian Christopher, Christine Schindler, Jennifer Marston Designing Consumer-Centered…

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  • Oct 25, 2020

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    Plus Events, Smart Kitchen Summit, Spoon Plus, Virtual Events

    Smart Kitchen Summit 2020 Sessions, Day Two

    Included below are videos from the following sessions: Using Innovation To Reduce Food Waste – James Rogers (Apeel), Chiara Cecchini (Future Food Institute), Alexandria Coari (ReFED), Moderator: Jenn Marston (The Spoon) Doing The Impossible: In Conversation with Pat Brown Let’s Print Some Meat – a demo of Novameat’s 3D meat printer From The Reviewer: What…

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  • Oct 19, 2020

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    News, Plus Events, Spoon Plus

    Smart Kitchen Summit 2020 Sessions, Day One

    This post includes all the sessions from Smart Kitchen Summit Day one. Included below are videos from the following sessions: Embracing Innovation in Trying Times – Riana Lynn, Peter Bodenheimer, Ali Bouzari The Changing Consumer Kitchen in the Era of COVID – Lisa McManus, Eve Turow-Paul, Susan Schwallie Data Driven Personalization of Food and Cooking…

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  • Sep 24, 2020

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    Alternative Protein, Biomanufacturing, Deep Dives, Spoon Plus

    An AWS For Protein? Scaling Bio-Manufacturing Platforms To Build Out The Next Generation of Food

    But if you want to making a next-gen protein, there’s a good chance you’re going to have to raise millions of dollars in venture funding to build out your own bio-manufacturing factory. Why? In large part because the platforms for creating fermented or cultured food products products at scale haven’t existed to the same degree…

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  • Sep 14, 2020

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    Business of Food, Education & Discovery, Featured, Food Waste, Foodtech, Reports, Smart Home, Spoon Plus, Startups, Waste Reduction

    Spoon Plus: The Consumer Food Waste Innovation Report

    Nowadays, governments, grocery retailers, industries like agriculture and grocery, tech companies, and many others are working to fight food waste at both the local and international level. In the developed world, at least, much of that focus over the last 12 months has been on the consumer kitchen, which is responsible for by far the…

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  • Sep 8, 2020

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    Deep Dives, News, Spoon Plus

    Human Improvement Founders Want to Make Cricket Protein Palatable for Masses

    McCarty points to rapid attitude shifts towards cannabis (McCarty and Campbell were executives at cannabis startup Dosist prior to HI) in recent years and think a similar shift could be coming for crickets. In cannabis, “you’re seeing a massive of stigma shift that I’ve never seen having anything in that space, at that scale, and…

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  • Aug 28, 2020

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    Deep Dives, News, Spoon Plus

    SideChef’s Kevin Yu on the Future of the Kitchen in a Time of Unprecedented Change

    He ran a company called SideChef, which made a recipe app, while it was early days for connected appliances and step-by-step guided cooking, Yu was already looking for opportunities to take his recipe app and use it as a central command system for appliances. It was just six months later Yu was on stage at…

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  • Aug 18, 2020

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    Deep Dives, News, Restaurant Tech, Spoon Plus

    Restaurant Tech Roundtable: Reinventing The Back of House With Digital Technology

    In this panel session, you’ll hear insights how how everyone from small operators to the country’s biggest QSR chains are using technology to improve operations, make their kitchens safer and to help roll out new menus in real-time. Here are Jenn Marston’s take-aways from session: More automation. Back of house automation isn’t just about robots…

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  • Aug 14, 2020

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    CRISPR, Deep Dives, Spoon Plus

    How CRISPR Could Create Produce That Lasts Longer, Tastes Better, and Won’t Make Pickers Bleed

    Pairwise is one of the companies making a name for itself developing new types of products using CRISPR. The company is developing consumer-facing brands of produce that offer unique characteristics created through the use of CRISPR toolsets. I caught up the CEO of Pairwise, Tom Adams, to discuss what the company is working on and…

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  • Aug 5, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Deep Dives, Next-Gen Cooking, Spoon Plus

    StoreBound’s Evan Dash Wants to Create a Housewares Brand for a New Generation

    “Breville was doing incredibly well,” said Dash. “They were still fairly new. And a lot of brands were chasing them to the high end. And then you had this whole like lower end, that was just in shambles, fighting over price, price price.” While Dash didn’t want to necessarily compete with Breville or fight over…

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  • Aug 3, 2020

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    Deep Dives, News, Spoon Plus

    How To Take Your Food DTC During a Pandemic

    For Jeremiah Kreisberg and his company Slow Up, this became a harsh reality when in March when the world shut down. The company sold its fresh snack bars through food service channels and so when everyone started working from home due to COVID-19, Kreisberg had to spin up a direct to consumer channel and fast.…

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  • Jul 27, 2020

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    Biomanufacturing, Cultured Meat, Deep Dives, News, Spoon Plus

    Geltor Raises $91 Million To Accelerate Time to Market for Biomanufactured Products

    Geltor, which helps CPG brands in a variety of verticals such as cosmetics and food, is looking to scale up its biodesign capability to help these companies find more sustainable, animal-free alternatives for food and cosmetic items while also accelerating their time to market. “We do two things,” CEO Alex Lorestani told the Spoon. “Building…

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