Category: Education & Discovery
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If you’re the type who takes pictures of your food and uploads them while still at the restaurant, you may soon be getting prompted by Google Maps to identify and rate your meal, according to a story from Ausdroid. The publication’s description is vague: “When you add a new photo, Maps will ask you to…
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Whisk, the UK-based AI food platform, announced today that it has acquired German startup, Avocando. The move augments Whisk’s shoppable recipe business by expanding the company’s footprint into continental Europe and adding some sizable appliance partners to the company’s partner roster. As we’ve noted, the recipe is evolving from a static list of instructions and…
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Red Lobster just announced a partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program, which should further the seafood restaurant chain’s stated promise of only buying seafood from trusted, sustainable sources. The Seafood Watch program offers education and recommendations for a growing number of restaurants, food retailers, co-ops, and zoos, among them Whole Foods, Chopt,…
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Seltzer: mix it into a cocktail, use it as a booze replacement, or you just drink it because all your friends are doing it. There’s no denying the bubbly beverage’s presence in the market. As a drink category, it’s estimated to be worth $1.8 billion. La Croix, meanwhile, has been called a commercial phenomenon. But…
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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’s been making a lot of headlines recently: the future of meat. Join us on Thursday, May 24th at Galvanize Seattle for drinks, snacks, and some rousing discussion. (Bonus: it’s free to attend, thanks to our sponsor ChefSteps!) The Future of…
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This week certainly kept us busy. Bear Robotics, which we were the first to cover, got a $2M investment, and Amazon opened the door to in-car grocery delivery. We also explored meat alternatives, from a tour of JUST’s cultured meat lab to Omnipork’s plant-based pork. Most excitingly of all, we had our first food tech…
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Last June, JUST, the company formerly known as Hampton Creek, announced out of nowhere that they would bring lab-grown meat to market by 2018. If they succeed, they would be the first to do so; Finless Foods hopes their cultured fish will gain price parity with bluefin tuna by 2019, and Memphis Meats is aiming to premiere their…
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If you’re even vaguely interested in the issue of food waste, you’ve probably got the vital stats memorized by now: Forty percent of U.S. food goes to waste. Food waste costs the world $1 trillion annually. And my personal (least) favorite: in the U.S., we waste enough food to fill a college football stadium. Meanwhile, there…
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Dumplings, char siu, lo mein, sweet and sour stir fries — a lot of China’s most-loved dishes feature one meat above all: pork. In fact, mainland China is the world’s largest consumer of pork; they’re projected to consume about 56 million tons of it this year alone. David Yeung is trying to curb Chinese pork consumption by…
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You’ve heard of Impossible Foods, you’ve heard of Beyond Meat — but there’s a new plant-based meat company on the scene. Seattle Food Tech launched in 2017 and recently raised a $1 million seed round, led by Fifty Years and Blue Horizon. The nascent company hopes to produce plant-based meat at a scale and price comparable to traditional…
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Just as you might pay Spotify to access your favorite songs and discover new ones, would you subscribe to a service that gives you access to thousands of classic and modern recipes and serves as a platform to introduce you to new cuisines and meals? That’s the question 1000 Cookbooks will try to answer with…
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At one point or another, we have all suffered from menu confusion: the feeling when a restaurant offers too many good-looking dishes, overwhelming us with choice. You don’t want to choose the wrong thing and be stuck with it, but you need to make a decision. Bangalore-based startup dishq is using AI and consumer data to…
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