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The Spoon Podcast
Join host Michael Wolf as he explores the world of food, ag and how innovation is changing what we eat.
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How is Kraft Heinz Preparing For the Future of Food?
For most Americans, the Kraft and Heinz brands have been ever-present in our cupboards and fridges for our entire lives. Products like Oscar Meyer hot dogs…
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AI-Powered Rolling Pins? Lessons From The First Wave of Smart Kitchen
This episode is the audio from the very first session at SKS 2024, Lessons From the First Wave (And How to Prepare for The Next One). The session included…
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A Look Back at Smart Kitchen Summit
SKS 2024 is in the books, so Carlos Rodela and Mike sit down and talk about the craziness of the past week, some of the products they checked out at the show…
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Exploring Kitchen Electrification With Impulse Labs' Sam D'Amico
What would happen if you put a big battery in your induction stove? For one thing, you could cook at a much higher temperature because the power the battery…
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Rethinking The Toaster (and Cooking) With Revolution Cooking's Tom Klaff
If you follow food Instagram or TikTok, chances are over the past couple of years you've seen a touchscreen toaster from Revolution Cooking. Revolution's…
The Spoon PodcastThe Story of Chefee, The Home Cooking Robot
This episode's guest is Assaf Pashut, the founder of Chefee, a company that makes home cooking robots. If there's a category in kitchen technology where there…
The Spoon PodcastThe Story of Samsung Food With Nick Holzherr
Nick Holzherr is well-known in the smart kitchen space. With the rapid growth of his startup Whisk and the acquisition of the company by Samsung, it's one of…
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The Food Tech News Show: A Look at Our Food Lives in The Year 2055
This week Mike and Carlos be joined by Future Market’s Mike Lee to talk over some of the most interesting stories of the week. Mike Lee also tells us about his…
The Spoon PodcastFood Tech News Show: Apple Eyes Home Robots
This week on the Food Tech News Show we are joined by Scott Heimendinger, one of the inventors of the home sous vide circulator and a long-time kitchen tech…
The Spoon PodcastThe Story of Mill with Matt Rogers
If you follow the world of kitchen and consumer food tech startups, you know there hasn't been much in the way of venture funded startups targeting food waste…
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The Food Tech News Show: Behold, The Humanoid Kitchen Robot is Here
This week, the Spoon crew got together to discuss some of the big stories of the week on a new weekly video news show we’re launching called The Food Tech News…
The Spoon PodcastBuilding Enabling Technology to Power the Smart Kitchen With Fresco's Anthony Sullivan
Over the past decade, Fresco has been building technology that helps appliance and housewares brands to create smart kitchen products. The journey for Fresco…
The Spoon PodcastThe Story of Chefman and Chef iQ with Ralph Newhouse
Around 2009, Ralph Newhouse's company hunted down excess inventory of small electrics and would re-sell them into the secondary market. However, it wasn't long…
The Spoon PodcastOvercoming Obstacles To Build Kitchen Tech Hardware With Ovie's Ty Thompson
Ty Thompson and the rest of the Ovie team recently passed a major milestone: They shipped their first piece of hardware. The product, a consumer food waste…
The Spoon PodcastTalking AI and the Future of Cooking With Chris Young
Chris Young is one of the most provocative and interesting thinkers in the future of food and cooking, so any time he visits The Spoon podcast we learn a lot…
The Spoon PodcastTalking Underground Delivery With Pipedream's Garrett McCurrach
Food delivery through underground tubes? Sounds crazy, but it's already happening today, and Pipedream's Garrett McCurrach thinks it just may be the future of…
The Spoon PodcastWhy Are CPG Brands Freaking Out About Ozempic?
This week SuperGut CEO Marc Washington joins the podcast to talk about why new GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are keeping CPG brand CEOs up at night…
The Spoon PodcastHow AI Is Changing Personalized Nutrition
In this episode of The Spoon Podcast, we welcome Ari Tulla, CEO of Elo Health. Ari got his start in tech working for mobile giant Nokia, where he helped lead…
The Spoon PodcastHow One Operator is Reinventing His Restaurant's Tech Stack
Andrew Simmons is an open book. When the long-time entrepreneur decided to buy a restaurant in 2020, little did he know that in just a few months he would be…
The Spoon PodcastTalking AI & Food With Evan Rapoport
In this week's podcast, we talk food and AI with Evan Rapoport. Over the past decade, Evan has led teams in Google Research and other organizations looking at…
The Spoon Podcast3D Food Printing & Cooking with Lasers!
When you think of the kitchen of the future, do you envision a 3D food printer instantly whipping up a dinner or a snack? While the crazy idea might not happen…
The Spoon PodcastFrom Astrophysicist to Cheesemaker With Oliver Zahn
As a child, Oliver Zahn was a self-described "mathy" kid who had a fascination with how the world worked. This early interest in the mechanics of the universe…
The Spoon PodcastBecoming A Kitchen Tech Reviewer With Wired's Joe Ray
This week we catch up with Wired's Joe Ray. Here at The Spoon we're fans of Joe's kitchen reviews, where he cuts to the quick and tells the reader exactly why…
The Spoon PodcastThe Story of SideChef: From the Smart Kitchen's Early Days to Rise of AI with Kevin Yu
In this podcast interview, Mike catches up with SideChef's Kevin Yu in the wake of the company's recent funding round to discuss the evolution of SideChef and…
The Spoon PodcastRobots & Money: The Food Robotics Investment Landscape
Are VCs still hungry for food robotics investments? We ask S2G's Arthur Chow and Vebu Labs' Buck Jordan what their thoughts are on the food automation…
The Spoon PodcastHow the DeSci Movement Will Impact the World of Food
Do you know what DeSci is? If you don't, don't feel bad, especially if, like me, food is your primary focus. A16Z's publication Future describes DeSci as a…
The Spoon PodcastTater Tot Valentines & Sourdough Starters
Our special guest is Scott Heimendinger for our weekly food tech news wrapup. Scott is a long-time kitchen tech inventor and entrepreneur who is currently…
The Spoon PodcastHow Will We Feed Astronauts in Deep Space?
Up until now, every morsel of food astronauts eat in outer space was created and packaged on earth. However, as we embark on the era of long-term space flight…
The Spoon PodcastThe Bloomberg Alt-Meat Hullabaloo with Rachel Konrad
In this week's episode we catch up with Rachel Konrad, a former journalist who has spent the last decade-plus working for Tesla, Impossible Foods and now the…
The Spoon PodcastA Look Back at The Year in Food Tech With S2G's Tonya Bakritzes
It's almost the end of 2022 and so we decided to catch up with S2G Managing Director Tonya Bakritzes. In this podcast we talk about: -The impact of inflation…
The Spoon PodcastHospitality in the Era of Web3 with Ben Leventhal
Ben Leventhal has nothing if not good timing. In 2004 the New York entrepreneur launched Eater at the dawn of the blogging era, back when food media was still…
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Food Tech Friday: Talking Food Robots With Clayton Wood
Our guest this week on our weekly food tech news wrapup is Clayton Wood, the CEO of pizza robot startup Picnic. We talk food tech news and then hear Clayton's…
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Food Tech Friday: Farmbots, Smart Mixers and Cocaine Bear
We're ramping our Friday food tech casual news wrapups back up again, and this week Mike and Carlos got together to talk about some of the stories that caught…
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Scaling a Plant-Based Meat Company With Nowadays' Max Elder
In his previous life, Max Elder worked as a futurist, where he helped food brands develop strategies for the future. One of his primary motivations in this…
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#138: WTF (Alt-Protein Edition) With Indiebio's Po Bronson
WTF is going on with alternative protein? To find out, we decided to catch up with one of our favorite people in future food, Indiebio's Po Bronson. Po went…
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#137: Navigating The World of Patents As a Food Tech Startup
Food tech industry is built on intellectual property. Whether a startup builds alternative proteins, cooking technology, automation/ AI or another food tech…
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#136: Building a Next-Generation Ingredient Company With Shiru's Jasmin Hume
As the former head of food chemistry for Eat Just, Jasmin Hume thought there was a lot of white space for innovation and thought a company should exist to…
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#135: A Few Dark Clouds Gather Over Restaurant Tech
In this episode of The Spoon, we are joined by long-time restaurant and restaurant tech journalist Nancy Luna. We thought we would have Nancy on to compare…
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#134: How Self-Ordering Tech Changes Fast Food Customer Behavior
In this episode of The Spoon podcast, we catch up with the CEO of GRUBBRR Sam Zietz and the CTO of BurgerFi (a 120 location burger chain) to talk about how the…
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#133: Talking Restaurant Tech With Reforming Retail's Jordan Thaeler
Jordan Thaeler doesn't mince words when it comes to the business of restaurant and retail technology business. Anyone who reads Thaeler's Reforming Retail…
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#132: Talking Food Waste Reduction (And How We Could Do More) With Andrew Shakman
Andrew Shakman had a tough job. After two full days of inspiring talks at ReFED's annual food waste symposium, the CEO of Leanpath was asked to give a closing…
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#131: The Wendysverse, 15-Minute Grocery Struggles & Roku's Big Food Play
Mike and Ashley get together to talk about some of the more interesting food tech stories of the week, including: -The big food brand metaverse trademark…
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#130: Bruce Friedrich of the Good Food Institute
If you are in the alt-protein industry or even just interested in the space, chances are you know about the Good Food Institute. In this episode, I caught up…
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#129: Food Tech News Show: Electrolux Rethinks the Kitchen
Can the design of your kitchen change how and what you eat? Electrolux thinks so. In this week's episode of the Spoon podcast's food tech news wrapup, we…
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#127: Talking Food as Medicine With NourishedRX's Lauren Driscoll
In this episode, we talk about the state of the food as medicine market and the how Lauren Driscoll built NourishedRX, one of the fastest growing companies in…
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What Does Web3 & NFTs Mean For Restaurants?
So while it may not be surprising that a restaurant concept by alpha-adopter and Internet celebrity Gary Vaynerchuk can raise millions of dollars selling NFTs…
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#125: Using Artificial Intelligence to Build The Next Generation of Food with Matias Muchnick
Matias Muchnick started NotCo in 2015 with a singular idea: Could AI be used to reinvent how new food products are discovered and made? Seven years later, his…
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#124: Wildtype's Justin Kolbeck Talk Cultivated Seafood
Wildtype, a cultivated seafood startup, announced it has raised a $100 million Series B funding round, the largest to date for a cultivated seafood startup. I…
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#122: Building The Shopify For Restaurant Robotics With Hyphen's Stephen Klein
Hyphen announced this week that they'd raised a $24 million Series A funding round. We caught up with Stephen Klein to hear about his food robot platform and…
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#121: The Story of ColdSnap, the Make-Anything Ice Cream & Beverage Machine
One night Mattew Fonte's young daughter suggested they make an instant home ice cream making machine. A few years later, the idea became a reality. Only the…
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#120: Buying a Restaurant With friesDAO
When Bill Lee and Brett Beller started talking about the idea of using a DAO and an NFT to buy a McDonald's, they were mostly joking around. Before long, they…
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#119: Building The Star Trek Drink Replicator With Cana's Matt Mahar
This week, Cana came out of stealth and announced their "molecular beverage printer", a device the company says will be able to create almost any beverage from…
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#118: Building The Anti-Ghost Kitchen Ghost Kitchen With Kristen Barnett
While the fast growth of the ghost kitchen industry is exciting, it has some downsides. The industry's rapid expansion has often meant low-quality food, a lack…
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#117: The Restaurant Tech Variety Hour With BBot's Steve Simoni
When Steve Simoni originally started BBot, the idea was to create restaurant robots, But things don't always go as planned, and for Simoni and BBot, that's a…
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#116: Using Computational Biology to Create New Ingredients With Kingdom Supercultures
Unlike many computational biology startups that have emerged in recent years, Kingdom doesn't use precision fermentation technology or genetic engineering to…
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#115: Talking Cell-Based Collagen with Stephanie Michelsen
Collagen is used everywhere, from cosmetics to food to health and wellness applications, and because animal-derived collagen is a by product of the animal…
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#114: Building Food Robots With Adam Lloyd Cohen
In 1985, Adam Lloyd Cohen was in Paris working on a documentary about ancient robots as a project during his senior year in college. After steeping himself in…
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#113: Building a Kitchen Category Creator With Scott Heimendinger
Scott Heimendinger has been building technology in the kitchen for the past decade. It started over a decade ago when he wrote a seminal article for Maker…
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Talking Grocery and Smart Kitchen With Innit's Kevin Brown
Innit dropped news this week of a partnership with Google Cloud, so I thought I'd do a quick catch up with him to hear about the news and see what else Innit…
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Reengineering Cell-Based Meat With Future Meat's Koby Nahmias
Koby Nahmias got a call in 2015 that would set the trajectory for next six years of his life and the cell-based meat industry. An investor wanted to know what…