In 2012, when several hundred people fell ill in the U.S. amid a salmonella outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration was quickly able to isolate the exact strain of salmonella that had found… Read more »
In its early days, grocery store delivery startup Instacart made its money two ways: Through delivery fees and product markups. It charged customers more for individual groceries than their in-store price. But… Read more »
Sorry, St. Louis. You’re the unhealthiest major city in the country based on Yummly’s analysis of recipe search data. The healthiest? Of course it’s frigging San Francisco. Read more »
Tastemade thinks that foodies want to do more that just watch videos about restaurants and cooking — which is why the company made apps to let everyone film their own restaurant… Read more »
So far if you want a connected kitchen your primary option is a Bluetooth-enabled food scale. Adaptics launches with Drop, a new entrant into the category with a slight twist. Read more »
There’s a lot to like about The Orange Chef’s plan to turn the lowly food scale into a virtual kitchen assistant, but it’s larger goal of building creating a connected kitchen… Read more »
The Orange Chef has raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Google Ventures and Spark Labs. The company makes a kitchen scale that communicates with your iPad and a wealth… Read more »
The food experiment-turned-real product Soylent has raised a $1.5 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures and Alexis Ohanian. Read more »
Yummly’s first mobile app doesn’t just port its semantic food search engine over to iOS. Rather, the company has designed its iPhone app to be used in the grocery store rather… Read more »
Serious Eats, one of my favorite food websites, has launched a monthly food magazine with iOS publisher 29th Street Publishing (more about 29th Street here). Each issue of “Serious Eats Magazine”… Read more »