The Spoon Podcast

Here's one thing you probably haven't tried: crowdfunding a cow.

But now you can. Crowd Cow is a company that has a platform to crowdfund the purchase of a steer or heifer. Started by Ethan Lowry, formerly of Urban Spoon, Crowd Cow lets backers buy their choice of meat and crowdfunds local meat one cow at a time.

I talked to Ethan about how he got the idea for Crowd Cow, how he sees the retail market for meat changing and how Crowd Cow could evolve to become a platform for products other than beef.

After spending the first part of his career as a retail executive, Evan Dash decided he wanted to be an entrepreneur who helps bring innovative new products to market in the home and kitchen space. His company Storebound is the company who helped bring the Pancakebot to market and is working on bringing a cold brew coffee maker for the home to market this year.

I caught up with Evan and talked about how he finds the next big thing in the home appliance space, what's working and what isn't working with retail today and what areas of innovation get him excited.

You can learn more about Storebound at www.storebound.com

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In this podcast, Mike talks with Mikel Cirkus and Matthew Walter from Firmenich, the largest privately owned flavor company in the world, about the idea of flavor as a technology. They explore how flavor can be broken down into different elements, how the speed of innovation and discovery in flavors continues to accelerate across geographies in today's connected world, and how the connected kitchen is impacting the flavor industry.

You can learn more about Firmenich at http://www.firmenich.com/

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In this episode, Mike talks with hardware interface designer for Google's virtual reality team, Basheer Tome. Basheer is passionate about VR, food and cooking and product design, so Mike talks to him about all three and how they might intersect.

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Victor Penev set out five years ago to create a semantic data layer for the world of food. Now his company, Edamam, has one of the world's biggest databases and provide food and nutrition data to companies like the New York Times and Epicurious. Now Penev wants to bring his data to the world of connected cooking appliances.

You can find out more about Edamam at www.edamam.com

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We've got more smart kitchen stories coming soon, but in the mean time we wanted to share a chat about what Mike and friend Brian Frank saw at CES 2016 in the connected kitchen.

For 2016, we plan to have more storytelling podcast episodes as well as throw in some conversation episodes as well as interviews with innovators in the smart kitchen space. Stay tuned!

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Mike goes on a field trip to get some beer, where he learns the story of the inventor of Pop Rocks, and hears PicobBrew's vision for democratized home brewing.

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A look at the oven, how it's changed and will change in the future. Mike also rediscovers an old acquaintance and finds out this old friend is pretty excited about kitchen and food tech.

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Mike tries to figure out why making tea has been so low-tech for so long and if that is changing with the smart kitchen.

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Mike tries to figure out if he should pull the trigger on a conference about the future of the kitchen.

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