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Here in the States, it’s the calm before the storm. I’m referring, of course, to Thanksgiving — the meal where we get together with family and friends, give thanks, and have a mild panic attack while cooking a turkey (and sides, and pie, and…).
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Impossible Foods announced today that it will start selling their popular plant-based burgers in retail stores in 2019. The Redwood, CA-based company has been expanding rapidly over the past year. It raised $114 million in April of this year, bringing its total war chest to over $387 million (according to Crunchbase). Their “bleeding” burgers are available in roughly 5,000 restaurants…
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Happy election day! While poking around the internet last night reading election coverage, we noticed a Spoon reader comment that Boston meal kit company Just Add Cooking (JAC) has ceased operations. JAC specialized in meals with locally-sourced ingredients from the New England area, and launched a crowdfunding campaign earlier this month. Sadly, they fell far…
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Earlier this week, scientists, entrepreneurs, and concerned members of the public got together to discuss the future of cell-based (also called “cultured” and “lab-grown”) meat during a joint meeting put on by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to the FDA news release, the meeting was intended to…
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No matter how sustainable your produce delivery or meal kit may be, it still carries one whopping environmental cost: packaging. One company is trying to solve that using a very old material — one that you might know from your sweaters. The Wool Packaging Company came about when CEO Angela Morris was developing a way for…
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Given the state of the world and the steady stream of negative garbage that flows through our news feeds every day, acts of kindness and generosity have an outsized impact and seem to shine that much brighter. When commercial kitchen space Pilotworks abruptly shut down over the weekend, it wasn’t just employees and investors of the…
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Grocery delivery startup Instacart announced today that it has raised another $600 million in a new funding round led by D1 Capital Partners. According to Crunchbase, this brings the total amount of funding raised by Instacart to $1.6 billion (with a b). This latest mega-funding round comes after Instacart had raised $150 million in April, which followed…
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After a year of manufacturing issues and legal woes, Palate Home, the maker of the Cinder smart grill, is shutting down and filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Palate Home Co-Founder and CEO, Eric Norman, posted the news on Indiegogo, where nearly a thousand people had crowdfunded Cinder, giving it more than $550,000 in total. We…
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It feels trivial to cobble together a newsletter highlighting recent food tech news, given the events of this week. But if there is any tenuous connection that can make it worth your reading, perhaps it’s that food creates small acts of kindness, and these small acts of kindness can connect us. And advances in technology…
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Have you ever gone to the grocery, bought a carton of milk only to get home and find that you grabbed soy milk instead of the more traditional cow’s milk? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to know! FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb posted a statement on his organization’s website today saying that his agency is…
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Earlier today Farmshelf CEO Andrew Shearer announced on Linkedin that the new Upper West Side location of Oath Pizza, set to open this Thursday, will feature one of their indoor growing units. Farmshelf builds turnkey hydroponic mini-farms, about the size of a bookshelf, for use in restaurants and hotels. Their systems are equipped with sensors which can automatically…
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This is the post version of our bi-weekly newsletter. If you’d like to get it in your inbox, you can subscribe here. Happy Friday, all! Catherine here. Our team’s hard at work putting the finishing touches on the Smart Kitchen Summit (you have your tickets, right?), but it’s been a busy couple of days for…
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