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Meyer Sound Wires Eatery For Custom Noise Control

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 05-14-2012 | 8:39 AM | INNOVATION

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Credibles: An Investment System That Yields Food, Not Money

BY Ariel Schwartz | 05-03-2012 | 12:04 PM | SLOW MONEY

Call it Kickstarter for local food, but the money you put in doesn’t get you a free T-shirt, it gets you more local food. Think of it as edible credit. READ MORE›

A Silicon Valley-Style Incubator For Local Food

BY Ariel Schwartz | 04-27-2012 | 1:19 PM | ORGANIC FOOD

Scaling local food production is going to take more than more fertilizer and sweat. It’s going to take innovative business and tech ideas. READ MORE›

Your Bad Eating Habits Are Contagious

BY Ariel Schwartz | 04-23-2012 | 7:57 AM | THE EATERY

If the person you’re eating with orders a salad, do you as well? After crunching data on hundreds of thousands of meals, Eatery finds that healthy eaters make each other more healthy, while bad eaters just encourage each other. READ MORE›

Temples: The Relationship Between Gyms And Our Broken Food System

BY Ariel Schwartz | 04-10-2012 | 2:00 PM | TEMPLES

Eat a gross burger, sweat it out in a gross gym. Watch the cycle repeat in this new video. Don’t lose your lunch. READ MORE›

An Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Food From Problem Sources

BY Michael Coren | 04-03-2012 | 3:00 PM | PICARRO

As globalized supply chains make the origins of the food you eat so murky, companies are investing in technology to track the exact places its ingredients were grown, by looking at their molecules. READ MORE›

StumbleUpon Wants To Buy You Dinner

BY David Holmes | 03-23-2012 | 9:00 AM | TECHNOLOGY

StumbleUpon is offering to cover the bill for your next dinner party, as long as you use their site to find the recipes.READ MORE›

Tyler Cowen Shares His New Rules For Mindful Foodies

BY Margaret Rhodes | 03-19-2012 | 6:11 PM | MAGAZINE

Go grocery shopping with a top economist.READ MORE›

Are Walmart's Global Responsibility Goals Too Ambitious?

BY Ariel Schwartz | 03-13-2012 | 10:30 AM | WALMART

A new report hits the company for not coming through on its promises about being sustainable. But was Walmart lying? Or did it simply set goals that were impossible to reach in order to push itself? READ MORE›

In The Cafeteria, Google Gets Healthy

BY Cliff Kuang | 03-02-2012 | 6:51 PM | WORK/LIFE

Companies spend a lot of time finding ways to cut energy costs and increase recycling. Here's how the tech giant is working to better manage another resource: the health of its staff.READ MORE›

F/00d: A Compelling (And Creepy!) Look At Our 24-Hour Consumption Cycle

BY Ariel Schwartz | 03-01-2012 | 8:48 AM | FOOD PRODUCTION

None of us look very good when we're participating in the industrialized food system, especially in Alex Moore's unpleasantantly personal photos. Now, where to have lunch today? READ MORE›

What The Global Food Supply Will Look Like In 2021

BY Ariel Schwartz | 02-21-2012 | 8:42 AM | ITFT

Depending on circumstances, we could be headed for either an amazing future where we’re printing food or a disaster where people are barely scraping by growing a few vegetables on their roofs. Here are four different scenarios about ... READ MORE›

FarmPlate: A Yelp For Local Food And Local Farmers

BY David Holmes | 02-14-2012 | 8:51 AM | FOOD

Using the Internet as a powerful tool to connect consumers with businesses that use local ingredients and--maybe more importantly--showing businesses the best places to source those local ingredients. READ MORE›

Vosges Unwraps Chocolate's Wild Side

BY David D. Burstein | 02-09-2012 | 6:36 PM | LEADERSHIP

Forget the Russell Stover this Valentine's Day--there's a delicious new world of innovative, artisanal chocolates out there. Katrina Markoff of luxury chocolate maker Vosges talks with Fast Company about the power of chocolate and her worldwide hunt for the perfect ingredients.READ MORE›

Walmart Will Soon Teach You How To Eat Right

BY Ariel Schwartz | 02-09-2012 | 4:05 PM | WALMART

The retail giant sells a lot of food to Americans, and Americans eat mostly bad food. If Walmart starts telling people the best options to pick, will it change diets? It plans to find out, with a little happy label on the best foods ... READ MORE›

The Art And Science Of Advertisements' High-Flying Food

BY Philip Butta | 01-30-2012 | 12:54 PM | DESIGN

Flinging food isn't just for unruly kids--Ed Fountain proves that it takes some mechanics.READ MORE›

Danny Meyer's Magic Touch: How To Create 4-Star Experiences And Lines Around The Block

BY David D. Burstein | 01-13-2012 | 5:49 PM | LEADERSHIP

"You can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor," says Danny Meyer. As CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, Meyer has opened 28 restaurants, each of which dials up the pleasure factor to new heights, whether it's a four-star meal or a $7 burger (but, what a burger!). Here's how he does it. READ MORE›

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