By CHLOE, the New York City-based fast-casual vegan restaurant that opened in 2015 with a similar service model to Danny Meyer’s hit burger chain, recently received $31 million in funding from Bain Capital, Kitchen Fund, Collaborative Fund, TGP International/Qoot International, and other strategic investors to expand to 20 locations in the US and internationally, Moneyish […]
When the Impossible Burger–a plant-based burger designed to sizzle, smell, taste, and bleed like beef–launched in July 2016, it was available first in Manhattan at Momofuku Nishi, a restaurant that also sells $39 strip steak and $62 lobster fra diavolo. Momofuku’s upscale version of the burger is $18. Now, after quickly scaling up, the burger […]
Have you ever wondered how much food is produced every year in the world? 4’000’000’000 tons. How much of this food is wasted? 1’300’000’000, 30%; ⅓ of the world’s food produced goes in the trash or to the dump. Through a simple mathematical equation, we may state undoubtedly that the 9’000’000’000 persons will populate the […]
Late on a Thursday afternoon in early March, just off Brick Lane in the heart of London’s nightlife hotspot Shoreditch, 23-year-old Louisa Davidson is taking calls and co-ordinating cables and scaffolds, as shocking pink Vegan Nights banners are hung around the expansive courtyards of the Truman Brewery. There is a chill in the air, quickly […]
How Grubhub analyzed 4,000 dishes to predict your next order Today Grubhub does indeed have an algorithm that can look across a country’s worth of takeout orders and tell a user what Indian joint near them delivers the most popular chicken tikka masala. But getting there required solving a seemingly impossible data problem, some high-end […]
FOR YEARS NOW, the US Department of Agriculture has been flirting with the latest and greatest DNA manipulation technologies. Since 2016, it has given free passes to at least a dozen gene-edited crops, ruling that they fall outside its regulatory purview. But on Wednesday, March 28, the agency made its relationship status official; effective immediately, […]
Under the volcanoes in Mexico’s Michoacán state, violent cartels are fighting to dominate a shadowy and lucrative market. One gang, called La Familia Michoacana, announced its presence about a decade ago by tossing five rivals’ heads onto a dance floor in the town of Uruapan. The Knights Templar muscled in next, spouting a chivalric code […]
When the patron saint of the Four Seasons’ Grill Room came down last year—a 19-by-20-foot Picasso curtain that had presided over the dining room since 1959—formal “power lunching,” it appeared to many New Yorkers, had finally run its course. Before the Four Seasons’ Picasso was furled, a lunch here wasn’t just a meal, but the […]
Nestle SA plans to begin selling slimmed-down Milkybar chocolates in the U.K. and Ireland in the first implementation of a new technology that promises the same sweetness with 30 percent less sugar. The Swiss food giant said a new version of the candy bars will be available on store shelves next week. It’s introducing them […]
In space, tortillas are a deeply sought-after food. The anonymous journals of astronauts, which detail their most private thoughts from time aboard the International Space Station, repeatedly mention the floury flatbreads. “We filmed us opening up the unofficial bag and eating the tortillas. They were fantastic. Maybe the best tortilla I ever ate,” wrote one […]