Category: Education & Discovery
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“Almost five years ago nobody had a personal driver, and now we have Uber. Why can’t we do that with personal chefs?” That’s the question that prompted 18-year-old Abbie Krech to drop out of college and start Cheff; a web platform which connects professional chefs with individuals who can’t — or don’t want to — cook. Time-pinched…
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Yes, it’s the summertime and you should probably be spending your weekend grilling various meats (and meat look-alikes) or sipping Pina Coladas on the beach. But there’s a chance a good chunk of you will be watching the World Cup Final on Sunday morning. (Team Croatia for the win!) So when you’re done watching men…
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What if you could wave your phone over a restaurant menu and see “through” the descriptions, instantly assessing which dishes are best (and worst) for you to eat? That’s exactly what Bay Area startup Suggestic is working on. When users first open the free app, they set up their goals (lose weight, have more energy) and dietary…
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Maybe you’ve heard of this thing called ‘cellular agriculture.’ It’s basically the practice of creating animal products from animal cells, instead of entire animals — and it’s the science behind producing meat (and eggs, and dairy, even leather and gelatin) in labs. Clean (or cultured, or lab-grown) meat has generated a lot of media attention…
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As I mentioned earlier this year, foodtech is making up for lost time in terms of innovation, and part of what’s driving that is the number of accelerator programs out there. And while we’re halfway through 2018, there are still plenty of programs to which food startups of all shapes and sizes can apply—so many,…
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Cookpad, the global recipe hosting site, today revealed OiCy, a new service that connects recipes with appliances to create a guided cooking system for smart kitchens. OiCy (pronounced “oh-ee-shee”, which is a roughly translates to “おいしい,” the Japanese word for delicious), will take recipes uploaded to Cookpad’s site and turns them into a machine-readable format…
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Everyone has a little tweak to make a recipe better. To give it a little something unique. My personal favorite recipe tweak is to mix in a cup of cottage cheese into my waffle batter. The new recipe site, To Taste, celebrates and encourages these twists on dishes by letting users publish their own modifications.…
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Cookly, the online service that lets you book cooking classes and culinary experiences in countries around the world, announced today that it has raised an undisclosed “Pre-Series A” round of funding to expand its platform. This round was led by Zcoin founder Paromin Insom, with participation from 500 TukTuks, which is part of 500 Startups.…
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It may have been a short week (at least for some of us), but it still feels good to reach the weekend finish line. Let’s celebrate with some food tech news, shall we? We’re still riding a high from the announcement of the FoodTech 25: twenty five companies we think are changing the way we grow, source,…
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It’s time for the next event in our monthly food tech meetup series! We’ll be exploring a subject that affects every one of us on a daily basis: food waste. Join us on Wednesday, June 27th at sustainable design firm Artefact for drinks, snacks, and some rousing discussion. (Bonus: it’s free to attend, thanks to our sponsor ChefSteps!) Food Waste Solutions…
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Perhaps you’ve always wanted to take a cooking class but never followed through because of scheduling, fear of cooking in front of other people, or the plain fact that you didn’t want to leave the house. In one fell swoop, Toronto-based The Chef and the Dish (C&D) eliminates all those excuses with its selection of video…
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Sound: the final frontier, at least when it comes to your food. While it’s pretty obvious why the other four senses can enhance a meal at a restaurant, there’s less research on the role of sound, probably because its effect on food isn’t immediately apparent. The folks at Stockholm, Sweden-based Diaz & Swahn want to…
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