SkyFarm Visionary: Think Smaller
As urban-farming geeks know, one of the most audacious-sounding vertical farm plans was for Toronto, Canada. 58 floors, costing $1.5 billion. It was to be a pioneering test of the idea that the key to...
View Article2012: The Year of the Fat-Free Guilt-Free Super Burger?
As many of you will soon find out, probably on April 12 or 13th, when your copy of The Taste of Tomorrow arrives via Fed Ex, UPS, or Express Mail, or DHL (in the UK, Germany or Japan), much of the...
View ArticleThe Cure to the World’s Protein Problem: Grilled Locusts in Thailand
Maybe once, in a mescal-induced trance, you sucked down the little worm (actually a moth larva) at the bottom of the bottle. But insects as a regular source of sustenance? Bizzare Foods territory,...
View ArticleThe $334,275 Lab Grown Hamburger — T-Minus 6 Months
“What a great week for cultured meat.”’ That’s according to New Harvest, the organization that’s been pushing cultured meat— aka in vitro meat, lab grown meat, or test tube meat — for the past decade....
View ArticleFake Chicken — It’s Getting Better & Cheaper
Great piece from Mark Bittman in the NYT today on progress in the quest for better plant-derived mock-meat…. Bittman raises a number of important points, such as: why the hell does fake meat cost 4 or...
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