Food Tech Intelligence Brief: The Lessons From PicoBrew (Spoon Plus)
Last week, an email went out to Picobrew customers informing them that PicoBrew had been sold through the bankruptcy process and had new owners (that won with a $7.5 million […]
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First Beer, Now Meat: How Yeast Can Help Us “Reinvent Our Food Structures”
Yeast is a hot topic of conversation these days: where to find it, what you’re baking with it, and how to create your own at home. Sudeep Agarwala, a yeast […]
If The End of Meat is Here, What’s Next?
The New York Times ran an Opinion piece this morning entitled ‘The End of Meat is Here” that soon had that phrase trending on Twitter. The piece was written by […]
Be Like Walmart and Swing for the Geofences
This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. Prior to the pandemic, I never […]
Johnny Grey on the Post-COVID Kitchen: No Cabinets, Bigger Pantries, More Pleasure
With COVID keeping many of us at home, kitchens are taking on a bigger role than ever before. They’re not just the place we cook meals; they’re also our offices, […]
From Restaurants Floors to Your Front Door, Food Robots are on the Rise
This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. A friend of mine was walking […]
Over Sourdough? Your Next Quarantine Activity Could be Growing Meat
At this point we’re all over making sourdough, right? The needy sourdough starters, the shortages of flour… even for the fermentation-curious, it’s getting to be more trouble than it’s worth. […]
Perfect Day’s Ice Cream, Made with Animal-Free Dairy, Debuts in SF
Perfect Day, the company which uses fermentation to make animal-free dairy from microbes, announced its first official retail partner today. The startup is working with Smitten Ice Cream in the […]
The Spoon Plus Insider Guide to Air Protein
As we push our planet to its production limits and grow short on resources like arable land and fresh water, we’ll need to create sustainable protein sources to feed the […]
Coffee Consumption May Survive COVID-19, but Will Coffee Shops?
This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. It’s said that coffee is recession […]
Can’t Find Yeast? This Geneticist Says There’s a Solution Hiding in Your Cupboard
Obviously, Americans are baking a lot of bread right now. Don’t believe me? Just look at the aisles of your local grocery store — nary a packet of yeast to […]
FDA Approves Perfect Day’s Animal-Free Whey Protein as Safe to Eat
Perfect Day, the startup using fermentation to create animal-free dairy proteins, has officially received approval for its proprietary whey protein from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In a letter, […]
