For the next couple of months, Food+Tech Connect will be posting a weekly update of volunteer, donation and eating opportunities to help support recovery efforts. Please share tips[...]
Will Turnage explores software solutions for scaling small-scale local meat from an online marketplace for the group buying of meat to a custom ordering system local butcher shops.[...]
During an age when any worldly fact or detail can be found on the Internet with just the click of a button, it's no wonder technology has infiltrated its way into all industries. T[...]
Organic, sustainable food needs to become more affordable. Why is it expensive? Organic agriculture is inherently economical: it requires few inputs and it doesn’t deplete scarce r[...]
Food+Tech Connect asked me to answer the question, how can information and technology be used to hack the food system? I have seen so many start-ups in the food space that I can'[...]
Today, Food+Tech Connect launches the first in a series of monthly interviews with leading food and tech investors. Over the past year I’ve spoken with 100+ food tech entrepreneurs[...]
The restaurant and dish discovery app space is getting crowded. In fact, I won’t write about another app unless it is powered by some innovative technology or employs interes[...]
Please join Food+Tech Connect in celebrating our one-year anniversary with an interactive cocktail party at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm on September 21, 2011. The event will featu[...]
Only one year after launching, semantic recipe site Yummly just broke through to 2 million monthly unique visitors, says CEO and co-founder Dave Feller. What’s been the secre[...]
An interactive Google map created by development shop Small Farm Central has spruced up the new Color of Food directory locating farms and food institutions in communities of color[...]
‘Standards’ and ’interoperability’ are fast becoming restaurant industry buzz words, at least from the tech side. Restaurants still largely operate in a ve[...]
*Jameson is a guest blogger for Food+Tech Connect and a middle school student at Sts. Philip and James School in Long Island, NY.* One in three Americans suffer from obesity[...]
A heavy-hitting group of investors including Dave McClure, Ilya Fushman, William Rosenzweig, Aki Sano and Tom Cole came together at “The New Food Chain: Investing in Food Sta[...]
Looks like Google is at it again, this time with a nifty weather layer you can choose to view in Google Maps. And while handy for city travelers, or in making conversation with you[...]
According to the Smarter Planet Blog, “In June, a team of five IBMers spent three weeks in Milwaukee as part of the company’s Smarter City Challenge grant program with the goal of [...]
In what interesting ways are food tech innovators using Google+? Joining Studiofeast founder Mike Lee for his first Google+ cooking demonstration two weeks ago opened my eyes to ju[...]
Windowfarms alone will not save the world. But even in the big picture, every little piece counts. That’s the thinking of The Windowfarms Project founder Britta Riley, a technology[...]
FOOD 2.0 is a day-long series of panels that will bring together professionals interested in the future of food and will promote discussion about how technology is shaping the way[...]
What does—or could, or even should—it mean to write about food today? I am honored to join more than 40 amazing writers in a conversation about this question as part of a multi-sit[...]
Everyday, food lovers from all over the world log on to the web in search of recipes. A growing number of sites, such as Food52 and Gourmet Live, are helping to democratize, person[...]
One glaring hole in the Food+Tech Business Model Canvas is, of course, revenue. The central issue for an online media platform (or any start-up business!) is how to monetize (ie, [...]
User interface and data visualization design firm FFunction created this infographic to visualize the severe decline of the honey bee population (Colongy Collapse Disorder) over th[...]
Would you try a slice of human cheese? I’ve asked this question at a dinner of artists and sustainable food advocates, at dinner with my family, and in conversation with frie[...]
Last week, I asked if you would be interested in having me launch a Your Weekly Questions section in the newsletter and on the website. The idea is to get everyone talking and make[...]
The Product Group Meetup: Jeremy Fisher on Dinevore from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo. The January Product Group Meetup featured Dinevore founder Jeremy Fisher. In this video, Fisher[...]