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Morning menagerie. @alicelouisewaters Santa Rosa plum cake made with…apricots. Plus a tiny toddler hand for scale and his little zoo of animals. Happy Friday everyone! — #zoo #cake #baker #apricot #alicewatersrecipe #foodie #sweets #brea
Last week I got to taste a new protein called Rhiza. It’s prepared here like any ole traditional steak and topped with a chimichurri sauce. Rhiza is made by @bettermeatco and is a protein that grows from a common fungi that’s fed nutrient
What… is….this?? It’s a mini, lab-scale bioreactor. What’s um that?? It’s a way to grow “food.” You feed it nutrients and it grows. The “it” here can be a variety of living organisms. Koji-based
Last week I chatted with Soleil Ho and @justmrphillips for their Extra Spicy podcast. We talked about how complex our food is becoming, whether changing our diet will help the climate, how to grow animal cells in a lab, and a surprise ending of a Kor
Testing out @louiesplantbased meats. Verrrrry interesting. Taste one is their deli-sliced “ham.” I ate it on a Wasa cracker spread with avocado and faux cheese. First bite was pretty darn tasty. No surprising ingredients to report, just t
Sautéed lions mane mushroom in fermented walnut “soy” sauce atop kale, cabbage and chickpeas. I could eat this on repeat! — #foodtech #technicallyfood #futurefood #newfood #tastetest #foodie #instafood #vedgeforward #sustai

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Bay Area writer focused on the interplay between food, technology, and business. Publications include: The New York Times, Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, Insider, Time & more. 

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California just invested millions in lab-grown meat, becoming the first state to back the unproven industry
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California just invested millions in lab-grown meat, becoming the first state to back the unproven industry
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Before voting to adopt California’s $308 billion state budget last month, Assembly Member Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San Jose, took a tour of Upside Foods, a food technology startup in Emeryville.

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This Bay Area company seeks to become the world’s largest grower of cultured meat at 30 million pounds per year
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This Bay Area company seeks to become the world’s largest grower of cultured meat at 30 million pounds per year
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One of the Bay Area’s leading food-tech companies just inked a deal to manufacture the world’s largest known bioreactors for growing meat from cells. Ten of them.

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Lab-Made Honey Tastes Like the Real Deal. Is That a Good Thing?
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Lab-Made Honey Tastes Like the Real Deal. Is That a Good Thing?
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Chefs around the country are buzzed on the vegan alternative, but not all are convinced it’ll save the bees.

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