The Spoon Podcast Network

•

Channel • 11 Shows

Technology

Technology

Updated weekly
Nutrition

Nutrition

Updated twice weekly
Food

Food

Updated fortnightly
TV Reviews

TV Reviews

Updated weekly
Food

Food

Updated fortnightly
Food

Food

Updated twice weekly
Food

Food

Updated 23/06/2025

3 Aug

Apeel's Jenny Du on Fighting Food Waste and Online Misinformation

In this episode of Food Truths, Eric Schulze speaks with Dr. Jenny Du, cofounder of Apeel Sciences, about the science behind the company’s plant-based coatings that extend the freshness of fruits and vegetables and reduce food waste. Du also discusses the inside story of the misinformation campaign targeting Apeel, its impact on the business, and the hard-earned lessons the company learned about crisis response, consumer trust, and communicating science in an increasingly polarized information environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14/08/2025

The Good (and Bad) of AI-Powered Food Tracking Systems

In this episode of The Spoon Podcast, Mike talks with Steve Statler, CEO and co-founder of AMB.AI, about the rise of ambient AI and energy-harvesting Bluetooth beacons could transform the supply chain. Steve shares his journey from pioneering Bluetooth beacons at Qualcomm to envisioning a future where everyday items like food, medicine, and clothing are connected and continuously monitored for location, temperature, and even freshness. The conversation explores the potential for reducing food waste, enabling dynamic expiry dates, and creating “demand chains” that respond in real time, while also tackling the privacy challenges and brand impacts of AI-driven purchasing. Steve balances excitement about the technology’s climate and efficiency benefits with caution about its role in feeding increasingly powerful AI systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26/02/2021

A Conversation With Chef Chris Young

If you're interested in the future of the home kitchen, restaurants or food in general, you won't want to miss this conversation with Chef Chris Young. Young announced his new company Combustion Inc this week, so we invited him to get on stage with us on Clubhouse to talk about lessons learned from his days at ChefSteps and Modernist Cuisine, what he's building at Combustion Inc and where he sees the world of restaurants going. It was a great conversation! via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13/10/2025

S1EP1: Life goes by too f**king fast, it really does

The first episode has dropped! In this episode of The Chair Company Files podcast, Mike and Carlos talk about the characters, the scenes, what clues have been dropped about the conspiracy that is The Chair Company, as well as where we think this thing is all going. Join us!
02/12/2025

S1 EP8: Minnie Mouse coming back wasn't on my bingo card

Season 1's final episode delivers lots of surprises, ties up loose threads, and sets up what may be an even bigger mystery to tackle next season. After a Vince Gilligan-esque cold open, Ron attempts to restore normalcy at home and figure out where his career is going, only to have things unravel further as he confronts new clues, strained relationships, and a desire to reveal all to family and the local paper. A surreal encounter with Baby's owner and a shocking reveal from the masked stalker push Ron to the edge, culminating in a final shot that makes us wonder where this whole thing is going in season 2.
18 Jun

The Science of Cows, Meat, and the Consumer with Brian Brozovic

Today's guest is part 1 in a conversation with meat scientist, Brian Brozovic. Brian is a full-stack meat science, quality, and consumer expert at Empirical Foods that helps meat producers and processors turn exceptional animal genetics into high-quality meat. Brian's expertise is unique, as he straddles the line of innovation in the conventional agriculture sector while also being very on top of emerging trends in food science, like cultivated meat. Brian helps connect producers, processors, retailers, and consumers through practical, science-based solutions. We talk about meat prices (of course!), what it takes to build a great animal product, and how consumers drive all the choices processors make. For more about Brian, you can connect with him here [https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmbrozovic]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2 Feb

Restoring Fiber's Lost Signal in Modern Food

Michael Wolf sits down with Matt Barnard and Matt Amicucci, PhD, the cofounders behind one.bio and its newly launched consumer brand GoodVice, to discuss why they believe the modern food system is broken and why it starts with fiber. The conversation examines the science of dietary fiber as a biological signal and how decades of food processing have stripped those signals. They talk about why most fiber on the market today either doesn’t work or creates trade-offs consumers won’t tolerate. Barnard and Amicucci explain their new consumer line, GoodVice, which they view as a reference product, why GLP-1 drugs have accelerated awareness of fiber deficiency, and how restoring whole-food signals to everyday products could change the future of metabolic and gut health without requiring discipline, restriction, or sacrifice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07/04/2025

Nutrition Myth Busting with Jaclyn London

Did “Insta” or “Tik Tok” make you eat it? Or avoid eating it? Social media is filled with nutrition advice and unfortunately a lot of the noise is nutrition misinformation coming from unqualified voices. Registered dietitian nutritionist, Jaclyn London takes on the diet myth busting challenge! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13 Jul

Building an AI from Scratch for Taste and Smell

In this episode, Mike sits down with Kai Schaeffner and Andreas Nicklas, who have been spending the last couple of years building an AI to better understand and predict individual taste and smell preferences. Kai and Andreas talk about how they've built their platform using scientific cohort and patient data, why taste is often the missing link between healthy eating recommendations and real behavior change, and how personalized taste profiles could eventually power everything from recipe recommendations and connected appliances to restaurant menus and digital food passports. They also talk about why are building their own specialized AI models rather than relying on large language models, and where the company sees opportunities to bring its technology to food brands, healthcare providers, hospitality companies, and consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11/11/2025

Eliot Horowitz Wants to Reinvent Robotics Like He Did Big Data

In this episode, Michael talks with Eliot Horowitz, founder of MongoDB and now CEO of Viam, about why the physical world is lagging behind the AI revolution and how Viam is building the foundational platform robotics has been missing. Eliot shares why robotics needs its “AWS moment,” how better tools can shrink development timelines from years to months, and why practical automation, from kitchen assistants to back-of-house restaurant robots, will arrive long before humanoids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Spoon Podcast Network is where you can find smart conversations about the future of food, food tech, ag tech and more!