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We first met Farm.One founder Rob Laing in 2016 on episode 145. Farm.One opened in Tribeca growing rare herbs, edible flowers, micro greens, and other exotic produce year-round for chefs and restaurants, using hydroponics and LED lighting. Episode 240 covers 2020, the global pandemic, and Farm.One’s pivot into delivering freshly-harvested greens to New York subscribers by bike and their move to a larger farm in Brooklyn. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks to Rob Laing, Founder and CRO, and Derek Pitts, Chairman and CEO, about how Farm.One has expanded and evolved into a neighborhood farm now serving chefs, members, and the community with fresh greens, farm tours, and classes.

Robots, automation and AI are here. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with former Space-X engineer Benson Tsai, CEO and co-founder of Stellar Pizza (robot-powered pizza trucks), and Stephan von Muehlen CEO and co-founder of Poursteady (automated pour-over coffee machines).

On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with fellow Heritage Radio Network host Shari Bayer of All in the Industry, about her recently published book CHEFWISE: Life Lessons from Leading Chefs Around the World (Phaidon Press). It is a book of inspiration, advice, and life lessons from 117 leading chefs around the world. Many have been on Heritage Radio Network, a member-supported radio station with more than one million monthly listeners worldwide.

I scream, you scream, we all scream to help solve the world's massive food waste problem with ice cream. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Tyler Malek, Co-Founder and Head Ice Cream Maker for Salt & Straw Ice Cream and Jeremy Kaye, Co-Founder of The Spare Food Co about Salt & Straw’s Upcycled Food Series featuring the Lemon Curd & Whey flavor, a tangy gelato infused with The Spare Food Co's Lemon & Ginger Spare Tonic.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for lowering CO2 emissions by 1-billion pounds. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Justin LeVrier, VP of Sales of Joule Case, and Eric Murphy, CEO and founder of Scream Truck, the on-demand ice cream trucks powered by Joule Case batteries.

Go behind-the-scenes of the Modernist Cuisine series with Nathan Myhrvold and his latest book Food & Drink: Modernist Cuisine Photography. Food & Drink looks at the technical aspects of the equipment and process, and the art of portraiture as applied to food. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Nathan about the cutting-edge techniques, custom-built cameras, robotics, and digitizers that were used to create the photographs in the series. Hungry for more? Listen to Tech Bites Episode 114 Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Bread.