Category: Education & Discovery
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Big news — The Spoon is launching a monthly food tech meetup series in our home city, Seattle! We hope these meetups will provide a space for people to learn about innovations in the future of cooking, agriculture, and the kitchen, and give our community an opportunity to connect around beer and snacks. The events…
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When you’re in the grocery aisle deciding which type of crackers or canned tomatoes or granola to buy, you might check the label for nutritional information. Maybe you seek out the calories, the protein, or the fiber — but what does it all really mean? New York-based startup Sage Project is hoping to cut through the confusion…
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FoodLogiQ, the Durham-based platform that helps food industry professionals trace their supply chains, just raised $19.5 million in their most recent funding round. This comes a few months after they snagged $4.25 million in Series B funding in September 2017, a round that was led by Renewal Funds, a mission-based venture capital firm based in Vancouver, B.C.…
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We all know that we should be eating insects. After all, bugs are a dietary staple for billions of people around the globe, and they have a significantly lower environmental footprint than meat. But Americans are still having a tricky time getting over the “ick” factor that comes with munching on crawling critters. The concept is popular…
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Millennials everywhere can finally justify all those overhead photos they just had to snap (and then Instagram) before digging into their food. Knorr, the powdered soup and seasoning brand owned by Unilever, has developed an AI-powered tool which scans your Instagram feed and then recommends recipes based on your photos. Dubbed Eat Your Feed, the tool uses…
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BuzzFeed, maker of the wildly popular Tasty cooking video series, announced today that it is teaming up with Walmart to debut an exclusive line of Tasty cookware. The move is a delicious bit of vertical integration that extends revenue for BuzzFeed beyond ads, and lets Walmart capitalize on the enormous popularity of the ubiquitous overhead…
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It’s a good day for wine lovers (and wannabe lovers) everywhere. Vivino, the world’s most downloaded wine app and largest online wine marketplace, just raised $20 million in series C funding. The latest funding round was led by SCP Neptune International, the investment arm of former Moet Hennessy CEO and Chairman of VinExpo Christophe Navarre. This comes about two…
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There’s growing consumer interest in knowing where your food comes from. In some cases, it came from a corporate farm. In others, it passed through the hands of slaves on its way to the supermarket. The latter is most often the case with fish—so much so that the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program has…
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Hatch aims to educate early-stage startups on how to develop and present their visions for aquaculture.
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Given that up to 40 percent of the food in the United States is never eaten, it’s no wonder there are a number of startups tackling the issue. Whether it’s working at the farm level, creating marketplaces for excess food, or dynamically adjusting menu prices, companies are working to reduce food waste from almost every…
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High-quality ingredients and homestyle cooking are the next step in the evolution of the ghost kitchen.
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The recipe is having a moment. Yes, the recipe, which some have called dead, is fast becoming the center of action in the digital kitchen as publishers, food brands and startups like Chicory want to help consumers make purchase decisions within the recipe itself. My guest for this podcast is Yuni Sameshima, the CEO of…
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