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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.
Episodes
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Talking The Future of Meat with Paul Shapiro
Better Meat Company CEO Paul Shapiro is an alt-protein evangelist. And it's not just for his own company, but for pretty much any company or person helping to…
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Talking Food as Medicine with Dr. Robert Graham
Dr Robert Graham is on a mission to help the world eat better. As a Harvard trained doctor as well as a chef, his business Fresh Med focuses on helping…
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Talking Upcycling with ReGrained's Daniel Kurzrock
Daniel Kurzrock first became interested in upcycling when he first started making bread for his friends using the spent grains from his home brewed beer. This…
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Talking Cell-Based Meat Regulation With Upside's Eric Schulze
Eric Schulze left a long-time position as a FDA regulator to go to Upside Foods (Memphis Meats at the time) to help develop the cutting edge technology. Eric's…
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From Futurist to Plant-Based Meat Founder: Max Elder
Max Elder had a good thing going. And then he decided he wanted to make a difference in the world. So the last year he worked in stealth on his new plant-based…
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A Conversation With Miyoko Schinner
There's really no one more responsible for the creation of today's plant-based cheese and butter market than Miyoko Schinner. After turning vegan in the 80s…
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Exploring Space Food
Let's talk space food! As NASA prepares to send astronauts into space for years to reach far-flung places like Mars, one of the biggest challenges will be…
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Talking About the Future of Food With Seth Goldman
For most, founding one of the original better-for-you brands in Honest Tea would be enough of a life achievement. For Seth Goldman, it meant he was just…
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A Conversation with Eat Just's Josh Tetrick
Eat Just founder and CEO Josh Tetrick is inarguably one of the leading pioneers in the future of food. In this interview, The Spoon's Jenn Marston talks with…
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Talking Personalized Nutrition with Naveen Jain
Naveen Jain has been on the forefront of technology for the last quarter century, starting one of the early seminal Internet companies in InfoSpace and…
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Talking Cultured Meat Economics With Jim Mellon
Jim Mellon's new book, Moo's Law, looks at the future food industry through the lens of a long-time investor. Mellon is an investor and entrepreneur who also…
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A Conversation With Chef Chris Young
If you're interested in the future of the home kitchen, restaurants or food in general, you won't want to miss this conversation with Chef Chris Young. Young…
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Creating a Chickenless-Egg With Clara Foods' Arturo Elizondo
Clara Foods is making eggs without the animal. The company has been working on its technology to make chickenless eggs since 2014 and finally released its…
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Talking Cell-Based Fish With Lou Cooperhouse
Long-time food tech executive Lou Cooperhouse became fascinated with the idea of creating biotechnology to create animal cells for food as he watched pioneers…
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Are We Ready for Smart Grocery Carts?
This week the Spoon editorial crew got together to talk about the latest food tech news. On this week's podcast, the crew talked about: -Dragontail Systems and…
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Making Plant-Based Cheese With Grounded Foods' Veronica Fil
While alt-meat and plant-based milks have seen an explosion in great products the past few years, plant-based cheese space hasn't seen the same level of new…
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CES and Food Tech Live 2021 Review
In this episode of The Food Tech Show, the Spoon crew talks about what they saw at CES 2021 and Food Tech Live. Both shows were virtual, but that didn't stop…
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A Conversation With Will Patrick of Culture Biosciences
In the world of computing, the ability to build new products and scale quickly is something that has come to be expected. Long-established toolsets enable…
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Making Honey Without The Bee: A Conversation With Darko Mandich
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the bee is being threatened by a number of factors such as global warming, pesticides and yes, murder…
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Ghost Kitchens Are Complicated
The Spoon team talks about the latest news from the world of food tech. In this episode, we also talk about what we learned at our ghost kitchen event last…
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Would You Like Your Mike Burger Medium or Medium Rare?
The editor crew gets together to talk about some of this week's biggest food tech stories. -Pink Dot Using Postmates' Serve Robot to Delivery Food in West…
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Will Joe Biden be the Food Tech President?
This week the Spoon team discusses the confusion over McDonald's plant-based burger debut, the fast food restaurant's new drive through only restaurant format…
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Lab-Grown Meat vs the Internet
Will lab grown meat scale like the Internet? We discuss this and other stories on this week's podcast. Other stories include Ordermark's ghost kitchen play…
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A Conversation with Harold McGee
Before there was Modernist Cuisine and the entire molecular gastronomy movement, there was Harold McGee. McGee changed the culinary landscape and, in…
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Anova's Steam Oven, The Dunkin Cup & Paying With Your Face
This week the editor team got together to discuss the following stories: -Anova's new combi oven and whether steam will be the next big thing on the consumer…
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An Almost All Coffee Pod: Spinn, Coffee Robots & Atomo
The Spoon team have a heavily caffeinated conversation about the layoffs at Cafe-X, Mike's first week with the Spinn and Atomo molecular coffee. We also talk…
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Ghost Kitchens, Keto Cookies & the Magical Egg Cooker
The Spoon editor team got together this week to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the week. Included in this week's wrap up is a discussion…
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Investing in Consumer Brands With Elizabeth Edwards
Investing in startups that make products to-consumers can be tough, but it's also exciting. Mike talks with long-time investor Elizabeth Edwards about why she…
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Talking Food Tech and Racial Injustice With Journey Foods' Riana Lynn
This week Michael Wolf sits down with Riana Lynn to talk about her journey as a black female food tech entrepreneur. From working in the Obama White House to…
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The Let's Have a Moment of Silence for PicoBrew Episode
This week the Spoon editors got together to talk about some of the biggest stories of the week, including: -CookMagic, a textbot based recipe assistant -Can…
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Going Off-Premise During a Pandemic With Chowly's Sterling Douglass
With most places still in lockdown, many restaurants are trying to survive by going off-premise through a combination of delivery and takeout. The Spoon's…
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Looking for Bright Spots in a Dark Time
The Spoon editors got together to talk about some of the stories of people and companies stepping up to the plate during a dark time or well positioned to take…
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How One Seattle Chef is Surviving Through Innovation During the Pandemic
From his time as director of culinary research for three Michelin star restaurant Alinea to creating video game themed dinner nights at his own Seattle based…
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Editor's Podcast, COVID Lockdown Edition
We're all sheltering in place, locked down and trying to keep on top of the impact of this global contagion on the world of food tech. We talk about mandatory…
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How Coronavirus Is Accelerating Adoption of Some Food Tech
It's a confusing and worrying time, so join some of your friends from the Spoon as we talk food tech for a half an hour. On today's podcast, we talk cover the…
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Coronavirus Hits the Housewares Show
We're back for an editor podcast. This week Mike, Chris and Catherine discuss the following stories: -How the coronavirus is impacting the world of tech…
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What Do PicoBrew's Struggles Mean for High Tech Beer Making?
The Spoon editor pod! Mike, Jenn, Chris and Catherine got together to discuss some of the stories of the week, including: -PicoBrew is up for sale. What…
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Are We Ready to Eat Bugs?
The Spoon team got together talk about the most interesting food and kitchen tech stories of the week, including: -Should food robots take humanoid form?…
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The CES 2020 Food Tech Wrapup Episode
We spent a week in Vegas scouting out everything food and kitchen at the Consumer Electronics Show! In this episode, Mike, Catherine, Chris and Jenn talk about…
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What Does the End of Nomiku Mean for Consumer Sous Vide?
The Spoon editors got together to discuss the news of the week, including the recent story we broke on The Spoon about Nomiku closing its doors. We discuss…
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Is The Smart Kitchen Smart or Dumb? Discuss.
It's another editor podcast where the Spoon gang gets together to discuss some of our favorite stories of the week. Here's what Mike, Jenn and Chris discuss on…
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Impossible's "Ground Beef" is On Its Way and We're Ready For It
The Spoon team (Mike, Catherine, Jenn & Chris) got together this week to talk food tech! Here are some of the stories we discussed: -The Caper smart grocery…
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Our Little Bot is Heading to College!
This week the Spoon gang got together to talk about some of the most interesting food tech stories of the week. Chris Albrecht, Jenn Marston, Catherine Lamb…
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Big in Japan
The Spoon team went to Tokyo this month for the third annual Smart Kitchen Summit Japan. It was Chris and Catherine's first time in Japan, so we discuss the…
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Mapping the Flavor Genome With Beth Altringer
Beth Altringer first became fascinated in flavor when she joined a competitive wine tasting organization when she was going to graduate school at The…
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Talking Personalized Restaurant Menus With The Fit's Scott Sanchez
With all the technology today around our own usage patterns, personal preferences and overall health and wellness, why is it that the restaurant menu still…
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A Conversation About CRISPR
Imagine you could "delete" the portion in a food DNA sequence that is bad for you. That's exactly what CRISPR and gene editing promises to do, and in this…
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Digitizing The Kitchen With Innit
The kitchen has lagged behind other rooms in the home in the move towards digital service platforms, but that is starting to change. One of the companies at…
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The Scoop on Magic Spoon
This is a podcast where Mike professes his love...for cereal. After breaking himself free of the morning cereal habit years ago, Mike decides to try Magic…
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Tiny Little Dishwashers
Welcome to The Food Tech Show with Michael Wolf (formerly the Smart Kitchen Show). The Spoon team is back together for another editorial roundtable (this time…
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Here Come The BurgerBots: A Conversation About Restaurant Robotics
As you might expect, working a robot into the busy back of house of a fast food restaurant isn't as easy as just setting it in front of the grill and plugging…
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Making Food Out of Thin Air with Solar Foods
If you're a reader of the Spoon or a hardcore foodtech nerd (or, more than likely, both), you have read about a nascent but fast-growing group of startups…
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Being A Kitchen Product Reviewer In The Era of The Smart Kitchen
No matter what publication you write for, if you are writing about kitchen products you increasingly have to consider how digital and connected technology…
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Talking Food Robots & The Uncanny Valley of Meat with Ali Bouzari
Like most people, when I think food robots I think about efficiency. More burgers flipped, dishes cleaned and customers served. But what if the precision of…
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Talking Space Food With Angelo Vermeulen
Like many people, I've long been fascinated with space and one of the most interesting aspects of interstellar travel is what exactly people will eat on space…