December 2011
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Infographic of the Week: In Caffeine We Trust...
What could be more crowd pleasing than an infographic about coffee? How about an interactive visualization that allows coffee drinkers to chart their own caffeine use and preferences?
In Caffeine We Trust, by Column Five Media, was created “to allow people to share our love for two important staples: caffeine consumption and data visualization,” says Column Five’s website. The...
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Evernote Food Allows Users to Document Recipes and...
Evernote, the app that helps people “remember everything,” recently launched Evernote Food, a free app that allows users to record their food experiences - restaurant dishes, recipes, diet, and other nuggets of information - in a visual, timelined, and tagged format.
Although the food app space is quickly becoming cluttered with competitors like Foodspotting and Keep Recipes, Evernote...
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2011 Trends: Recipe Websites, Apps, & Publishing
[This article is part of a series of Food+Tech Connect 2011 Trend Reports.  Others in the series include Where Does Your Food Come From? and Meaty Opportunities for Tech]
The home cooking experience is undergoing dramatic changes, in part thanks to the iPad, e-book readers and mobile phones. In 2011, publishers, bloggers and startups embraced the web to make it easier for people to find...
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Molecular Gastronomists Without Borders? [Video]
Chefs Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche of Moto in Chicago, have been experimenting with new ways to prepare and eat food for years.
Now, the duo are exploring how the innovations pioneered in their restaurant lab can be used to solve global challenges like the world food crisis and cancer. Watch their TED talk below to learn about how they are re-imagining the meaning of food technology.
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Infographic of the Week: School Breakfast
On the Friday before Christmas, Food+Tech Connect brings you a graphic from the USDA’s Economic Research Service to help put things into perspective.
In 1989, 3.7 million students received breakfast at school. By 2010, that number had more than tripled to 11.6 million students participating daily. Most of those getting breakfast at school are also in high need; 75 percent of the 1.9 billion...
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2011 Trends: Where Does Your Food Come From?
[This article is part of a series of Food+Tech Connect 2011 Trend Reports.  Others in the series include Recipe Websites, Apps & Publishing and Meaty Opportunities for Tech]
Fueled by food recalls of everything from cantaloupe to ground beef, the public is now calling for more, and more easily accessible, information about the food they eat.
In fact, 86% of shoppers say the presence of...
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2011 Trends: Meaty Opportunities for Tech
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[This article is part of a series of Food+Tech Connect 2011 Trend Reports.  Others in the series include Recipe Websites, Apps & Publishing and Where Does Your Food Come From?]
According to a UC Davis Report, demand for...
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Coffee CSA Uses Technology to Connect Farmers to...
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) helps farmers around the world share the risk and bounty of their harvest with those in their region. But what happens when your âcommunityâ is global, and consumers want to buy direct from farmers thousands of miles away?
You use technology, says Coffee CSA General Manager, Thaleon Tremain
âWe can do it because the technology now exists,â says...
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Infographic of the Week: Direct Marketing of Local...
“Local food” seems to be all the rage - but how big of a trend is it and how is selling locally working out for small scale farmers?
The USDA report Direct and Intermediated Marketing of Local Foods in the United States looks at these questions and more.
The report lays out information collected in 2008 on the growing local food industry:
Gross sales of locally marketed food (to...
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Sizable Challenges Exist in Using Video to Spread...
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A comprehensive study released in October by Agro-Insight confirmed that while farmers in developing nations want access to agricultural information through instructional videos, sizable challenges to distribution...
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Innovator Series: Emily Cavalier on Using...
[Food+Tech Connect’s Innovator Series was recorded at The Grind in NYC for our one year anniversary party as part of the Hacking the Food System series. Videography for the series was shot by Celia Talbot Tobin, and produced and edited by Sarah A. Maine. Read past posts exploring how technology, information and data can change the food system status quo and follow along as the...
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Farm Bill Hackathon: Lessons Learned
Ten sponsors and 120 designers, developers, data geeks, and food policy experts came out in the (relatively) early morning hours on Saturday, December 3, 2011 for the Farm Bill Hackathon. They worked collaboratively for twelve hours straight, on their day off, creating tools and graphics for use in the media.
But why? Why were so many individuals and businesses interested in being part of an...
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Food+Tech Gift Guide 2011
Looking for new and interesting gifts for the food nerds in our life? We’ve got you covered with our top product, app, book, and tasting box picks. These gifts are perfect for a variety of budgets and should keep your favorite makers, hackers, and food lovers alike happy.
TASTING BOXES
With Craft Coffee Tasting Boxes you can send coffee aficionados 12 ounces of premium coffee from three...
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Infographic of the Week: Cotton vs Carrots
This week’s Infographic of the Week was created by Laura Scherling and Laurence Wilse-Samson as part of the Farm Bill Hackathon. Scherling is a designer at The New School’s Communications and External Affairs Office and Laurence Wilse Samson is a PhD candidate in the Columbia University Economics department.
The graphic compares the money given in subsidies to eight cotton farms in...
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Free Online Marketing for Farms Devastated by...
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Karen and Jake Fairbairn had just put a creamery into their barn. Their business, Lazy Crazy Acres, was only a baby when Hurricane Irene hit in August of...
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Village Voice Web Award Goes to Food Curated
The Village Voice Web Award was given on December 7, 2011 to Liza De Guia for her series “Food Curated.” Hurricane Irene Aftermath: The Story of Maple Downs Farm was a featured video in the series.
De Guia uses video and web to spread information and stories of food artisans and farmers.
Hurricane Irene Aftermath: One Farmer’s Story from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
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Designers and Food Experts Create Infographics on...
Monday, Food+Tech Connect announced the winners of the Farm Bill Hackathon. But several other interesting projects were also created at the event, held December 3, 2011 in NYC. A final virtual project from the day will also be featured tomorrow.
Consolidation of the Meat Industry
An illuminating graphic on beef production and industry consolidation was created by Alexandra Tung, Chris Hunt,...
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Windowfarms Raises $223K+ on Kickstarter to...
[Update: Windowfarms raised  $257,307 in total through their Kickstarter campaign.]
As of 12:20 a.m. this morning, Windowfarms, the open source hydroponic farming system and social network, has raised over $223,822 dollars on Kickstarter. This is $173,822 more than their goal, making Windowfarms Kickstarter’s most successful food project to date and one of their more successful projects...
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Farm Bill Hackathon Winners Visualize Broad Set...
Over the weekend the Farm Bill Hackathon brought together (in person and virtually) 120 designers, data scientists, developers, marketing professionals, food policy experts, and USDA employees, to âhackâ one of the most important pieces of legislation in the U.S. - the Farm Bill. Over the course of 12 hours, 5 graphics and 4 tools were produced, addressing issues as diverse as support to new...
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Infographic of the Week: Is Mozzarella the New...
The average American in 2009 consumed almost an ounce and a half of cheese a day, according to the Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System of the Economic Research Service (ERS), three times as much cheese as she or he did in 1970. But the kind of cheese we eat has also changed, perhaps because of the ever increasing popularity of pizza.
These charts, and many more, are available in December...
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Farm Bill Hack Tackles Investment in New Farmers,...
On December 3, 2011, Food+Tech Connect and Gojee will bring together tech designers, journalists, food policy experts and data specialists to âhackâ one of the most important pieces of legislation in the U.S. - the Farm Bill.
Sign up here to participate in the Hackathon, or tune in here to follow live streaming event coverage. Volunteers can sign up to work on specific projects here.
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