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This Culinary Tech Inventor Thought He Could Build Some Parts For His Latest Gadget in the US. Then He Called Around.
July 14, 2025 Michael Wolf

July 9, 2025

Thermomix Has Long Been a Leader in Cooking Automation, But Now They’re Going Full Robot

July 3, 2025

Is IFT’s Launch of an AI Tool For Food Scientists an Indicator of Where Trade Associations Are Going in Age of AI?

July 1, 2025

From Red Bull to Zevia, Amy Taylor Shares Lessons Learned From a Career Built Around Buzzy Beverages

February 1, 2025

A Conversation With Bear Robotics’ John Ha on LG Deal and The Future of The Company

Ninja’s Thirsti Drink Machine Shows Why It Went Public While Other Countertop Brands Go Out of Business

July 25, 2023 Michael Wolf

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When I first got the email this morning from the Ninja PR rep, I got excited and thought maybe the company had gone and created a drink replicator similar to […]

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Vebu Scores Deal (and Investment) With Chipotle to Trial Avocado Processing Robot

July 20, 2023 Michael Wolf

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Last week, Mexican food fast-casual chain Chipotle lifted the curtain on a new avocado processing robot called the Autocado. The new prototype robot, developed in partnership with food robotics innovation […]

DiGiorno Debuts Pizza Vending Machine, and It Looks a Whole Lot Like Basil Street Pizza

July 20, 2023 Michael Wolf

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This week, Nestlé frozen pizza brand DiGiorno debuted its first-ever pizza vending machine, the DiGiorno To Go. When I looked at the machine and watched the video of the DiGiorno […]

Spinn Coffee is Burning Through Cash, But Says It Will Reach Profitability as It Raises More Money

July 18, 2023 Michael Wolf

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Spinn, the maker of a grind and brew coffee machine that uses centrifugal force to extract brewed coffee, is currently raising money via Wefunder to fund ongoing operations. The company, […]

As Jobs Disappear, Could Restaurants Become a Battleground For Pushback Against AI & Automation?

July 17, 2023 Michael Wolf

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Last month, after 29 months straight of job gains, the number of total available restaurant jobs dropped. It wasn’t a huge dip – 800 jobs – but compared to the […]

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Dispatches from Israel Food Tech Ecosystem: Daphna Heffetz, CEO of Wanda Fish

July 13, 2023 Joy Chen

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Daphna Heffetz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wanda Fish, a cellular agriculture company aimed at producing cell-based fish meat, starting with bluefin tuna. We talked about making cell-based fish […]

Cultivated Meat is On Sale, But It’s Pricey. A New Study Shows How to Bring the Cost Down

July 11, 2023 Michael Wolf

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Now that the cultivated meat industry has achieved the long-awaited milestone of going on sale to consumers in the US, the focus will increasingly turn to whether it’s possible to […]

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MIT & NVIDIA Researchers Are Building Tech That Could Enable Better Kitchen-Robot Precision

July 10, 2023 Michael Wolf

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This week, a group of researchers from MIT and NVIDIA are showing off a system that one day may be pivotal in helping our robot chef make dinner without making […]

The Spoon Weekly: The Edible Barcode

July 6, 2023 Michael Wolf

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This is the online version of our weekly newsletter. Head here to subscribe to The Spoon and get it delivered straight to your inbox For the last few years, there’s been […]

José Andrés Serves Up Cultivated Chicken in Honor of Willem van Eelen, The ‘Godfather of Cultivated Meat’

July 6, 2023 Michael Wolf

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A couple of days after the first sale of cultivated meat this weekend in San Francisco, news of José Andrés serving up GOOD Meat on the opposite coast landed in […]

Big Week For Cultivated Meat: Dutch Government Approves Tastings, UPSIDE’s Chicken Debuts at Crenn

July 5, 2023 Michael Wolf

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It’s been an eventful few days for cultivated meat. After getting the final regulatory green light from the USDA to serve cultivated meat to U.S. consumers, UPSIDE Food’s cultivated chicken […]

Researchers at Cal Poly Are Studying The Social Impact of AI & Robotics on the World of Food

July 3, 2023 Michael Wolf

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Last fall, a group of researchers at Cal Poly was awarded a $700 thousand grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the social and ethical impacts of AI […]

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