Ramen Data: Mouth to Anus

Processed food like ramen noodles and gummy bears are bad for you. Now, for the first time ever, you can see how for yourself.

Artist and provacateur Stefani Bardin’s newest project M2A™:The Fantastic Voyage offers a graphic look at how the gastrointestinal tract (GI) processes a meal of Top Ramen versus a meal of hand made noodles

Enhancing Interoperability: The Open Food Hackathon

As part of the International Open Data Hackathon and inspired by the Farm Bill Hackathon, Foodtree is hosting an Open Food Hackathon in Vancouver on December 3. The aim is to aggregate datasets into a central database and to build a simple API available to everyone in the world.

Anthony Nicalo on Hacking the Food System: Eliminating Information Asymmetry

We live in a backward world. A world where it is strange to know where our food comes from. Foods that are grown and processed without adulteration have to prove it, while the use of chemicals and manipulation do not have to be disclosed.
Information and technology on the other hand can contribute to a better food system by eliminating information asymmetry

John Reinhardt & Bob Wall on Hacking the Food System: Going Viral

This year we witnessed first hand the power of open source tools to quickly spread the word about food system policy and planning. When Sedgwick, Maine passed the first food sovereignty ordinance, Grown in the City created a map so that others could track this trend and see the start of a growing movement.

Will Turnage on Hacking the Food System: Re-Imagining Recipes With Data

My current work focuses on creating software that improves the home cooking experience. Over the past two years, I’ve worked with food writer Michael Ruhlman, and together we’ve started simple and small and released two products. First was Ratio, a digital companion to his book Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking. The second, released earlier this year, was Bread Baking Basics, an iPad app that lets you design your own bread recipe — choose a flour, shape, pan, and quantity — and a custom bread recipe is automatically created for you

Jeff Miller on Hacking the Food System: The Final Link

The food tech revolution is now underway. Every day we’re seeing new opportunities created for technology to improve the food supply chain, whether it be better farm management, online CSAs or other, crazier ideas that only yet exist in the minds of entrepreneurs. There’s one specific portion of the food supply chain that I’m personally most excited about: the final link, where food is placed into the waiting hands of consumers who then take it home and create a meal for their family, friends or just themselves

Ryan Charles on Hacking the Food System: One Aisle Supermarket?

The digitization of food has ensured a critical mass of content surrounding many, but not all of the food choices we make. Web and mobile restaurant platforms provide recommendations down to the dish. When it comes to recipes you can take your pick from behemoths to emerging startups. Even with the perfect instructions how do you know which canned tomato is the best to make that sauce recipe

Hilary Mason on Hacking the Food System: The Story of the Ultimate Cookie

I’d like to tell you the story of the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. This isn’t the Neiman Marcus $65,000 cookie recipe. Nor is it the classic Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe that we all grew up with (and, though the instructions are all the same, my Mom made the best). This is a recipe learned from thousands of bakers around the world, via love and math

Carl DiSalvo on Hacking the Food System: Reinvent Ag-Tech

We can think about how to hack the food system through both pragmatic and applied innovation, and also through imaginative and critical engagements with agriculture and food. One of the questions I’m interested in is: How can sensing and robotics technologies support small-scale agriculture

Meat #5: Are Grazing by GPS & Virtual Fencing on the Horizon?

Mac Magruder had his way, he would be able to control the grazing of his grass-fed herd by GPS. And while the technology for such a virtual fence is on the drawing board, Magruder might have to wait a while to use it on his own cattle

Will Forkly’s Tools Set Them Apart in Crowded Dish & Restaurnt Discovery Space?

The restaurant and dish discovery app space is getting crowded. In fact, I won’t write about another app unless it is powered by some innovative technology or employs interesting ways to acquire users and/or data.  Which is exactly why I wanted to interview Forkly co-founder Brady Becker. Forkly is a mobile app that helps you

Meat Distribution Part 3: A Meat Buying App?

[Editors Note: This is the third story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] In mid July, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released a report entitled The Meat Eaters Guide, full of data and useful visualizations on the environmental impact of 20

30 SXSW Panels – From Food to Data & World-Changing Things In Between

We think South By South West,  the largest digital-interactive conference in the United States, offers a unique opportunity to connect with and learn from a cross-disciplinary group of people using digital technology to make the world a better place. At Food+Tech Connect, our core belief is that information and technology can enhance transparency, empower better decision-making, and foster

OpenMenu Brings Interoperability To Restaurant Industry

‘Standards’ and  ’interoperability’ are fast becoming restaurant industry buzz words, at least from the tech side. Restaurants still largely operate in a very ‘Web 1.0′ way, with flash websites and PDF, word, or scanned menus. This is fueling an explosion in restaurant-related online food ordering, review, and recommendation websites, who are all trying to come

Iconathon LA 8/13/11: Create New Symbols for Food & Nutrition

Calling all Food Advocates & Designers This Saturday, August 13, 2011, Code for America and The Noun Project are bringing together designers and  food advocates to create new symbols for Food & Nutrition in a design event called an Iconathon. Register here. Description and agenda from Iconathon LA organizers: LA’s Iconathon will begin by providing