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Category: Voices

  • Nov 4, 2016

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    Business of Food, Voices

    How One Savvy Inventor Created the George Foreman Grill and Jump-Started an Industry

    George Foreman’s name may grace the label of a certain type of grill we all have in our cabinets, but he didn’t actually invent the machine. No, that honor belongs to a man named Michael Boehm.

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  • Oct 29, 2016

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    Non-Tech, Voices

    Tales From The Soda Wars (Home Edition)

    What happens when you do battle with a Sodastream?

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  • Oct 20, 2016

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    Delivery & Commerce, Startups, Voices

    Q&A With Raised Real’s Santiago Merea

    We caught up with Santiago Merea to ask him about his new baby food startup, Raised Real.

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  • Oct 15, 2016

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    Education & Discovery, Voices

    From The White House To The Connected Kitchen: A Conversation With Sam Kass

    If you ever want a front row seat to American history, you might consider the culinary arts. That’s because you could end up like Sam Kass, who during his time as chef at the White House would often find himself playing pool with none other than Barack Obama. Back when Kass was a college student dreaming of…

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  • Oct 4, 2016

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    Voices

    Connected Home Chefs: Sous Vide King of Alabama

    This series explores how connected devices are used in real-life people’s home kitchens. It’s one thing to watch a demo of connected cooking appliances on a company website or at Pirch in Manhattan, but it’s quite another to use them in your own house. These are stories of people who use technology to make delicious…

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  • Oct 3, 2016

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    Next-Gen Cooking, Voices

    How Darren Vengroff Is Helping Cookware Maker Meyer Reinvent Itself (And Cooking)

    Besides fire itself, there’s nothing more old school in the kitchen the good old pot or pan. And while advances such as non-stick surfaces and induction cookware have breathed fresh air into the cookware market every few years or so, the reality is that a pan is still a pan is still a pan. Or is it? Well, one…

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  • Sep 21, 2016

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    Podcasts, Voices

    Podcast: Making Better Hamburgers With Science: A Conversation With J. Kenji López-Alt

    In this podcast, Mike visits with J. Kenji López-Alt, the James Beard award winning author behind The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science. We talk about how Kenji got interested in applying science to food, how he became a chef and his thoughts on the smart kitchen.

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  • Aug 10, 2016

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    Voices

    Interview: FirstBuild’s Taylor Dawson on Hackathons and Cold Brew Coffee

    FirstBuild announced a Future of Cooking hackathon. We caught up with Taylor Dawson to ask why they do hackathons and to tell us about their Prisma cold brew coffee machine.

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  • Aug 8, 2016

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    Long Form, Voices

    Interview: Chef Chris Young, Co-Founder of ChefSteps

    Ashley recently chatted with Chef Chris Young, famed chef-scientist, co-author of Modernist Cuisine and co-founder of ChefSteps, a technology company working to help people cook better. Ashley Daigneault: How has cooking evolved over the last few decades and what role do you think technology is playing in those changes? Chef Chris Young: Well that really depends…

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  • Jul 23, 2016

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    Voices

    Doug Evans Wants Everyone To Have Great Juice, So He Built a $700 Home Juicer

    This interview is with Doug Evans, the Founder of Juicero. We interviewed Doug for the Smart Kitchen Show podcast. You can hear Doug’s interview here. This Conversation Series interview is condensed and slightly edited for readability. You can read the full interview transcript here. Michael Wolf: What is the Juicero? Doug Evans: First it’s a software…

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