Category: Video
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There was a time when Whirlpool was an appliance company, pure and simple. Nestlé focused exclusively on packaged goods. ChefSteps started as an online content community. But in the past few years, Whirlpool bought recipe content platform Yummly, Nestlé has added digital services, and Chefsteps has diversified into hardware and prepared food. In the technology age,…
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A year after Eli Holzman first created Project Runway, he called Parson’s School of Design to see how the partnership was going from them. They told that enrollment in their program had doubled. In fact, across the country, there had been a massive uptick in applications for fashion design schools. That’s when Holzman first realized…
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The first panel of the 2018 Smart Kitchen Summit (SKS) North America started out not with a bang, but with a beep. Just after Jon Jenkins, Director of Engineering at Hestan Smart Cooking, Dana Cowin, former Editor in Chief of Food & Wine, and Michael Wolf got settled, self-driving robot Penny glided out onto the stage to bring…
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Last month, I visited Boston with my sixteen-year-old son. After a few days of site seeing in a city rich with American history, I asked him what his favorite thing he’d seen so far. “The robot restaurant,” he said without hesitation. So much for the founding fathers. Instead of Faneuil Hall or the site of the…
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After Christian Lane‘s first business, which he built at the age of 19, folded, he got the idea to launch a new endeavor in the smart kitchen field. Which, as he’ll tell you, was not always easy going. Despite the challenges (and his self-described ‘retail rollercoaster’), Lane eventually succeeded in building Smarter: a connected kitchen…
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At Smart Kitchen Summit Europe last month, a topic on everyone’s mind was the future of the connected kitchen market. In fact, we had a whole panel devoted to analyzing the regional perspectives of the smart kitchen marketplace: Chris Albrecht of The Spoon moderated the conversation between Holger Henke of Cuicinale, Robin Liss of Suvie,…
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Personalization was a big theme at Smart Kitchen Summit Europe: in nutrition, taste profiles for dining out, recipes, and more. One of our hit panels ‘The New Era of Personalized Flavor’ explored this idea with Daniel Protz of FlavorWiki, Johan Langenbick of FoodPairing, and Alexandre Bastos of Givaudan, moderated by Luke Dormehl of Digital Trends. The panelists talked about…
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Sure, you may have walked, flown, or even blasted aliens on a virtual world — but did you ever stop to smell the virtual roses? With Givaudan‘s technology you can smell not only the roses but a variety of other scents in a virtual kitchen. Here at the Food IT conference presented by The Mixing…
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At the Smart Kitchen Summit Europe a few weeks ago (miss you, Dublin!), disrupting the meal journey was a big theme. And one of the biggest things changing the way we eat is food delivery to our homes. I had a chance to discuss this shift with Dan Warne, Managing Director of Deliveroo in the…
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We at The Spoon have long been fans of Ashlee Clark Thompson, Associate Editor at CNet and hilarious twitter poster. (You may have seen her on stage at last year’s Smart Kitchen Summit talking about the future of food.) Like us, Thompson is fascinated by the smart kitchen market. “The kitchen has become the center of the home,”…
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At last year’s Smart Kitchen Summit by the Spoon, Vaiva Kalnikaitė, CEO of unconventional design studio and innovation lab Dovetailed, took the stage to talk about one of food futurists’ favorite topics: edible 3D printing. “Over the last few years, I’ve been exploring how we can design new dining experiences using various different types of technology,” she said. And…
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Waffles are a Sunday morning tradition in our house. As a result we go through a lot of Bisquick**. Making sure I always have enough on hand is just one reason I’m excited to try out the forthcoming PantryChic. PantryChic is a system of connected containers and dispensing unit that keeps track of your dry…
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