Tech to table : 25 innovators reimagining food / Richard Munson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munson, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade--Technological innovations.

Food industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Tech to table : twenty-five innovators reimagining food

Place of Publication:

Washington, D. C. : Island Press, 2021.

Summary:

Imagine eating a burger grown in a laboratory, a strawberry picked by a robot, or a pastry created with a 3-D printer. You would never taste the difference, but these technologies might just save your health and the planet's. Today, landmark advances in computing, engineering, and medicine are driving solutions to the biggest problems created by industrialized food. Tech to Table introduces readers to twenty-five of the most creative entrepreneurs advancing these solutions. They come from various places and professions, identities and backgrounds. But they share an outsider's perspective and an idealistic, sometimes aggressive, ambition to rethink the food system.

Contents:

Introduction: The rise of innovators

Part. 1. Deliver proteins. 1. Josh Tetrick, Eat Just

rethinking the chicken and the egg

2. Uma Valeti, UPSIDE Foods

avoiding animal slaughter

3. Patrick Brown, Impossible Foods

making burgers from plants

4. James Corwell, Ocean Hugger Foods

turning tomatoes into tuna

5. Virginia Emery, Beta Hatch

farming insects

6. Leonard Lerer, Back of the Yards Algae Sciences

growing algae and mycelia

Part. 2. Reduce food waste. 7. Irving Fain, Bowery Farming

bringing crops closer to consumers

8. James Rogers, Jenny Du, and Louis Perez, Apeel Sciences

coating foods

9. Bob Pitzer, Harvest CROO

picking strawberries robotically

10. Raja Ramachandran, ripe.io

tracking food with blockchain

11. Lynette Kucsma and Emilio Sepulveda, Foodini

printing 3D meals

12. Daphna Nissenbaum, TIPA

cutting plastic packaging

Part. 3. Curtail poisons. 13. Sébastien Boyer and Thomas Palomares, FarmWise

plucking weeds robotically

14. Jorge Heraud and Lee Redden, Blue River Technology

spraying precisely

15. Irina Borodina, BioPhero

messing with pest sex

Part. 4. Nourish plants. 16. Diane Wu and Poornima Parameswaran, Trace Genomics

mapping soils

17. Eric Taipale, Sentera

analyzing fields from above

18. Ron Hovsepian, Indigo Ag

providing probiotics to the soil

19. Karsten Temme and Alvin Tamir, Pivot Bio

feeding nitrogen to crop roots

20. Tony Alverez, WaterBit

watering precisely

Part. 5. Cut carbon. 21. Rachel Haurwitz, Caribou Biosciences

editing genes

22. Lee Dehaan, The Land Institute

planting perennials

23. Joshua Goldman, Australis Aquaculture

blocking burps

24. Julia Collins, Planet FWD

creating a climate-friendly food platform

25. Stafford Sheehan and Gregory Constantine, Air Company

cutting carbon with vodka

Conclusion: Disrupting farms and foods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781642831917

1642831913

OCLC:

1263027901