The Spoon Podcast

Gotta give credit where credit is due: Amazon sure has lots of ideas about how to get more stuff to your house. While everyone is focused on delivery drones, cute little delivery bots and pickup lockers, Amazon's also been brainstorming about putting a robot in your garage that could go and retrieve your latest package for you. That's just one of the topics we tackle in this week's podcast with the Spoon editor gang. Other topics include: -Motif's massive $90 million funding round for its plant to democratize plant-based ingredients -How Gen Z is shaking up the food business with its eating habits -Do we need refrigeration in our countertop appliances? As always, you can find more podcasts at www.thespoon.tech via Knit

This week on the editor roundtable edition of the Smart Kitchen Show, Mike, Catherine, Jenn and Chris discuss: -The explosion in food AI (including news by McCormicks new partnership with IBM) -The crackdown on CBD by different local governments as everyone struggles to figure out what is and isn't legal -The recent launch of BSH Appliances smart kitchen accelerator (and all the other foodtech accelerators) -Finding love on a smart fridge Make sure to find more podcasts at www.thespoon.tech via Knit

A new year, a couple new plant-based burgers. And as Impossible and Beyond battle it out for plant-based burger supremacy, the world of food delivery continues to see shakeups, new delivery technology and accelerated consumer adoption. We talk about all this in this week's edition of the editorial roundtable. Join Catherine Lamb, Jenn Marston, Chris Albrecht and Michael Wolf as they discuss the latest in foodtech news. via Knit

No matter what publication you write for, if you are writing about kitchen products you increasingly have to consider how digital and connected technology impact how people cook. At SKS 2018, Michael Wolf sat down with four of the leading kitchen product reviewers to ask them how they do their job - and how their job is changing - in an increasingly connected world. On the podcast panel were: Lisa McManus - America's Test Kitchen Joe Ray - Wired Ashley Clarke Thompson - CNET Wilson Rothman - Wall Street Journal You can find more podcasts and articles about the future of cooking at https://thespoon.tech via Knit

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We're just a couple days out from CES and the Spoon team is heading out to Vegas. On this podcast, the Spoon team talks about their predictions for 2019 and what they're excited about to see at CES. On the podcast: Jenn Marston, Catherine Lamb, Chris Albrecht and Michael Wolf. via Knit

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 robots can actually make food that tastes better? I talk about this, the uncanny valley of meat and more with this week's guest, Ali Bouzari, the chief science officer of Pilot R&D and Render Foods and author of INGREDIENT: Unveiling the Essential Elements of Food. You can find out more about Ali at https://www.alibouzari.com/ via Knit

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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 and once they get up there among the stars. This is something that Angelo Vermeulen has been thinking about for a long time. After spending years focused on systems and design for interstellar travel and colonization, Vermeulen was made the commander of the first HI-SEAS mission, a NASA funded space simulation focused on researching how to keep crews happy during long missions in space. In this episode, we talk about his experience on the HI-SEAS, some of his key takeaways, and the current state of space food research. You can find out more about Angelo at http://www.angelovermeulen.net/ via Knit

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The Spoon editors get together for a weekly conference call. Since we always have a fun time talking foodtech, we thought why don't we double-dip and also record the conversation! So here is the first Spoon editor roundtable podcast! The topics we discuss include: -Will fake meat (aka 'motherless meat' (thanks Chris) will be a big trend in 2019 -The spontaneous combustion of the Kiwi delivery bot -Whether food halls are the new mall food court The editors on the call include Chris Albrecht, Catherine Lamb, Jenn Marston and Michael Wolf. Enjoy! via Knit

"The [cannabis edibles] consumer is probably not who you think it is," said Linda Gilbert, formerly Managing Editor, Consumer Insights cannabis data company BDS Analytics. "The average age of a cannabis consumer is 42. This is not an 18 year old living in his parent's basement." In this talk from the Smart Kitchen Summit 2018, The Spoon's Catherine Lamb talks with Linda and two other experts about the burgeoning cannabis edibles market - and where we can expect it to grow from here. via Knit

If you were to look at all the products rolled out in the connected home over the past decade, you probably couldn't find two more vastly different outcomes than that of the Amazon Echo and Juicero.

But what most people don't know, it was the same person running point on hardware development for both products.

In this podcast, the Wall Street Journal's Wilson Rothman talks to Malachy about the lessons he's learned from being instrumental in rolling out products with such wildly different outcomes.