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… … Continue reading Ambro is an organic, allergy free meal replacement shake
Gross alert: This guy has eaten only raw meat for the past five years Holly Richmond, grist.org ViceDerek Nance.If you slide waaaay down from the Paleo diet on the weird scale, you find Derek Nance. Dude’s been solely subsisting on raw meat for almost six years and, according to Vice, has “never been healthier”:Five years … Continue reading Derek Nance eats only raw meat for 5 years
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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… … Continue reading Why food is the next big thing in business
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 … Continue reading The best states to be a locavore
Food Hackers Cook Up a Storm of Startup Ideas in San Francisco Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFile this under “more evidence that food-tech is one of the hottest areas for Bay Area entrepeneurs.” A weekend Food Hackathon contest at SOMACentral’s new 450 Townsend Street space attracted some 170 developers, designers,… http://flip.it/YDpSP Related articles New Rock … Continue reading Food Hackathons: food tech startups growing
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 … Continue reading Good Eggs: the Amazon of local food
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 … Can Chemistry … Continue reading Chemistry makes healthy foods more appealing
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 … Continue reading Visualizing food lifespan
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… RT @FastCompany: Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing … Continue reading Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing Economy?
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 … Continue reading The world has ended, or just about
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 … Continue reading Apparently, charging $7 for a cup of coffee makes suckers believe it tastes better
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, … Continue reading Honest junk food advertisements show you what kind of crap you’re really eating
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… … Continue reading Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers
The Well is a Giant New Beer Hall Inside a Former Bushwick Brewery inhabitat.com Bushwick‘s Otto Huber Brewery may be long gone, but its new tenants have reincarnated its spirit with a cavernous new beer garden inside the old facility. Dubbed The Well, the transformed former beer factory is now home to 16,000… RT @inhabitat: … Continue reading The Well is a Giant New Beer Hall
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… http://flip.it/TxJpy Related articles Eating Like A … Continue reading A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman
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… … Continue reading Up to 50 Percent of All Food Produced is Thrown Away
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… Why Cheap Booze Makes … Continue reading Congeners and cheap booze hangovers
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… http://flip.it/eCcTF Related articles Millions face starvation as world … Continue reading Bankers realize food speculation is causing global food insecurity
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… RT @WiredUK: DIY History … Continue reading DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books
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… http://flip.it/m6bBi Related articles BioCurious DIY BioPrinter … Continue reading DIY history identifies forgotten bio prospecting knowledge
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… http://flip.it/EZTdB
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