The Spoon Podcast

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 getting started. Nowadays as the Chairman of Beyond Meat and founder of plant-based snack brand Eat the Change and plant-based fast food chain PLNT Burger, Seth Goldman thinks a lot about the future of food. We talk about how alt-protein and the future food space has evolved in recent years, the crazy valuations for startups, and where he thinks the market for these new alternatives to animal agriculture are going. via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Josh about the company's recent milestones and where he sees alt-protein going in the future. via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 eventually starting a space company in Moon Express. His current passion is Viome, a company focused on building high-precision nutrition information services and supplements derived from an understanding of a person's DNA, RNA and microbiome. via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 has written numerous books on industries such as biotech and investing. For his latest book, he interviewed the who's who of the future food industry and we discuss his findings on the podcast. via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 announced his new company Combustion Inc this week, so we invited him to get on stage with us on Clubhouse to talk about lessons learned from his days at ChefSteps and Modernist Cuisine, what he's building at Combustion Inc and where he sees the world of restaurants going. It was a great conversation! via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 first product last year. We talk to Clara Foods CEO Arturo Elizondo about a chicken-less egg future and how we get there. via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 like Mark Post product mammal cells in a lab, but realized there wasn't nearly as much innovation happening the world of cell-based fish. And so BlueNalu was born. We talk about the future of cell-based fish market, how creating cell-based fish differs from other types of cultivated meat and much more. via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Pizza Hut Deploy Pizza Delivery Drones in Israel -Controlled Ag Company AppHarvest's First-Ever Crop Arrives at Grocery Stores This Week -Smart Shopping Carts at Kroger (and elsewhere) -Big $ Continue for Cultured Meat Startups As always, you can subscribe to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. - via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 and exciting products. That might change soon as Ground Foods brings its cauliflower and hemp based cheese products to the masses. We talk with Veronica Fil, the CEO of Grounded Foods, on the story behind their product that has many in the plant-based food world excited about cheese. via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 us from seeing and talking to some interesting food tech innovators. As always, you can read about what we saw at The Spoon (www.thespoon.tech). via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices