Category: Voices
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Last night we hosted our second food tech meetup. Folks passionate about the future of meat mingled over some excellent grub from lunch subscription service MealPal. One lucky attendee even won a Joule from our sponsor, ChefSteps! Panelists Isaac Emery (Good Food Institute), Christie Lagally (Seattle Food Tech), and Ethan Lowry (Crowd Cow) had a…
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Take a second, right now, and picture the community of the future. Are there green roofs, lazily-turning windmills, and streetlights powered by solar energy? Maybe even a lawn-mowing robot or two? James Ehrlich, CEO of ReGen Villages, has a pretty innovative vision for how neighborhoods of the future should look and function. After a career as…
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Phil Tessier is a busy guy. In his day job as culinary director for Hestan Smart Cooking, he’s spent the past couple years working with a team of software developers, hardware makers and culinary experts to bring a new smart cooking system in the Hestan Cue to market. He’s also spent much of the past…
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Today’s a big day for Josephine, the startup behind the ‘cottage food’ sharing platform and marketplace that enable home cooks to sell food to their neighbors. That’s because today is the day a bill is being considered by the Health Committee of the California state legislature called the 2017 CA Homemade Food Operations Act (edit:…
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The Spoon has learned that Mellow, a startup that has gained attention for development of a hybrid sous vide appliance with unique features such as a built-in refrigeration and a scale, has a new CEO. Long-time supply chain executive Gary Itenson, who served as the company’s COO for the past year, has stepped into the top spot…
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The full transcript of our conversation about VR and food with Google’s head of design for VR hardware.
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I recently caught up with Victor Penev, CEO of Edemam, about his company’s effort to create a data layer for the Internet of Food. You can hear that conversation on the Smart Kitchen Show podcast here, or you can read the full transcript of the conversation below. The conversation has been edited slightly for…
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Late last year, I checked in with Dave Arnold to talk about his new product idea, the Spinzall (which he has since started to move into production), as well as talk about his book and how to make great ice. Needless to say, Dave has a lot of interesting things to say, so we thought we…
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Mike talks with Google’s hardware interface designer for the Google virtual reality team about virtual reality, food and the smart kitchen.
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Victor Penev set out five years ago to create a semantic data layer for the world of food. Now his company, Edamam, has one of the world’s biggest databases and provide food and nutrition data to companies like the New York Times and Epicurious. Now Penev wants to bring his data to the world of…
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Late last year, one of Croatia’s biggest packaged food conglomerates, Podravka, invested in a robotic home chef startup called GammaChef. It’s an interesting move for such a storied company. Podravka, which was founded in 1934, started as a fruit factory before eventually becaming nationalized as part of Yugoslavia in 1947. With the fall of the Soviet Union in the…
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This series explores how new technology is used in real-life people’s home kitchens. It’s one thing to watch a demo on a company website or at the store, but it’s quite another to use them in your own house. These are stories of people who use technology to make delicious food (or beer) for themselves, their families, and…
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