Ambro is an organic, allergy free meal replacement shake

Soylent Meets Whole Foods: Ambro Is An Organic, High-End Meal Replacement Shake
fastcoexist.com

The buzzy liquid meal substitute market just got more crowded with a crunchy new entry made of natural ingredients instead of chemical powders. Drink up!

If all the hype around food replace­ment start­up Soy­lent is to be believed, there is a la…

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What a grocery store without bees looks like | MNN – Mother Nature Network

What a grocery store without bees looks like | MNN – Mother Nature Network.

Why food is the next big thing in business

The Next Big Thing in Business: Food
Steve Tobak, inc.com

LAST WORD

If you’re looking for a business, industry, or career to sink your teeth into, look no further than your next meal. 10 reasons the food industry is booming.

You’d never know the econ­o­my is in a slump from the state of the food…

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The best states to be a locavore

The Top Locavore States In The U.S.
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

You might think you know the capitals of eating local, but this list will prove you wrong.

These days, it’s hard to find a food­ie who doesn’t also claim to be a loca­vore, or some­one who eats locally-produced food. But it’s a lot eas­i­er to e…

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Good Eggs: the Amazon of local food

Good Eggs Aims to Be the Amazon of Local Food
By Alexandra Chang, wired.com

Good Eggs, which launched last sum­mer as the Etsy of local food, is expand­ing in a bid to become the Ama­zon of local food.

The San Francisco-based com­pa­ny launched a new web plat­form Thurs­day that lets users select items from local ven­do…

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Chemistry makes healthy foods more appealing

Can Chemistry Make Healthy Foods More Appealing?
Rachel Nuwer, smithsonianmag.com

Photo: holtmiGive a baby her first spoonful of mashed spinach or blended brussell sprouts and you can likely watch her face pucker up in shocked torment. Veggies tend to be a dreaded childhood bane for many youngsters, yet there are exceptions to …

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Visualizing food lifespan

Put an End to Spoiled, Wasted Food with This Handy Chart
Alan Henry, lifehacker.com

The costs of wasted food go far beyond the money you may have wasted buying something and letting it spoil. We’ve talked about ways to stop wasting food before, but if all you really need to know is “How long will this stay fresh and how should I…

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Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing Economy?

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English: A diagram of a . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com

Are you gonna eat that? Here are four social networks that want to take food sharing way beyond photos.Globally, 30 to 50 percent of all food produced is lost or wasted between crop and plate—that’s between 1.2 and 2 billion tons. Personally, eac…

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Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing Economy?

The world has ended, or just about

The world has ended, or just about. Now, what wine do you drink with broiled rats and steamed slug?
By Sarah Miller, grist.org

Final­ly, some­one has writ­ten an impor­tant arti­cle about some­thing that actu­al­ly means some­thing to me: what kind of wine we are going to drink with the dis­gust­ing ver­min we have to eat when the world ends or is on its way toward end­in…

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Apparently, charging $7 for a cup of coffee makes suckers believe it tastes better

Apparently, charging $7 for a cup of coffee makes suckers believe it tastes better
By Sarah Miller, grist.org

Star­bucks has come out with some super fancy new cof­fee that costs $7. Sup­pos­ed­ly it tastes real­ly awe­some. (At that price it bet­ter taste like God’s balls.) Come­di­an Jimmy Kim­mel was skep­ti­cal that it was real­ly all that, and he hel…

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Honest junk food advertisements show you what kind of crap you’re really eating

Honest junk food advertisements show you what kind of crap you’re really eating
By Jess Zimmerman, grist.org

Graph­ic design­er Laura P. cre­at­ed these posters for the nasty ingre­di­ents hid­ing in some of your favorite junk foods. Would Twinkies and hot dogs be as pop­u­lar if these were plas­tered in bus sta­tions and movie the­aters? Well, yeah,…

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Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers

Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers
Karl Bates-Duke, futurity.org

DUKE (US) — For bonobos, building a social network and making new friends are as valuable as food, say researchers. If you opened a pack of gum while standing in line somewhere, would you give a piece to the coworker standing on one side of…

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A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman

A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

Corn is a grain, knucklehead.

Keep­ing up with the eat­ing habits of our cave-dwelling ances­tors can be tough. Luck­i­ly some­one has slapped togeth­er a handy flow­chart for you to ref­er­ence if you’ve hopped on the lat­est diet-craze…

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Up to 50 Percent of All Food Produced is Thrown Away

Up to 50 Percent of All Food Produced is Thrown Away
Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com

Researchers with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) has released their findings that between 30 to 50 percent of all food produced or up to two billion tons is thrown away each year. The UK-based group claims that over-cautious sell by…

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Congeners and cheap booze hangovers

Why Cheap Booze Makes Your Hangover So Horrible
Brent Rose, gizmodo.com

You. You’re out drinking with your friends, matching them round for round. They’re sippin’ fancy whiskey, but you’re saving money, sticking with the well specials. So why is it, halfway through the night, you’re suddenly hit with a brutal headache…

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Bankers realize food speculation is causing global food insecurity

Banks consider quitting food speculation due to role in global hunger
By Brandon Keim, wired.co.uk

Business

Finan­cial giant Bar­clays is con­sid­er­ing an end to food spec­u­la­tion, a con­tro­ver­sial prac­tice linked to sud­den, dan­ger­ous spikes in glob­al food prices.

Rich Ricci, head of Bar­clays’ cor­po­rate and invest­ment bank­ing…

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DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books

DIY History crowdsources the transcription of 17th century cookbooks
By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk

Culture

“We are what we eat,” the old say­ing goes. If so, there’s no bet­ter way to digest cul­ture than to comb through painstak­ing­ly hand­writ­ten cook­books. Now, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i…

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DIY history identifies forgotten bio prospecting knowledge

How to make calves’ head soup, and other culinary treats from the past
By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk

Culture

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i­er with the launch of DIY His­to­ry, a crowd­sourc­ing ini­tia­tive that allows vol­un­teers to tran­scribe the Sza­th­mary Culi­nary Archives, cen­turies’ wort…

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Popcorn: turn video into a computable medium

Popcorn: Content Creation that Tastes Good
iqagency.com

A new type of video content creation.

This post is about a brand new dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy for video called Pop­corn. It’s one of a num­ber of tech­nol­o­gy led efforts to broad­en what video is capa­ble of, and in a world where soon 90% of da…

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The relationship between coffee shop density and political party

Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results
ilovecoffee.jp

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