Vegan Pure Grit BBQ Opens In New York City After A Four-Year Delay

After a pandemic delay of four years, Pure Grit BBQ, a plant-based BBQ eatery, opened in New York … [+] City in May 2023, but not all of its dishes are necessarily healthy. Courtesy of Pure Grit...

Hershey-Backed Blue Stripes Makes Cacao Products From The Shells And All

Oded Brenner, CEO of Blue Stripes Cacao, produces upcycled products that use the whole cacao pod. Blue Stripes Upcycling, a sort of culinary alchemy that turns food waste into edible gold, is one of t...

Fashion’s Leather Misinformation Problem And Why ‘Vegan’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Sustainable’

Bella Hadid, wearing black vegan leather jacket and pants, Paris Fashion Week. GC Images While ‘alternative leathers’ continue to attract huge investments, some designers are speaking out ...

Family Feud Forces Pizza Cheese Billionaire To Court, Slutty Vegan Expands And Texan Winemakers Take On Climate Change

Back in 2016, I took one of my favorite reporting trips ever. In Denver, I found myself deep inside the headquarters of “the Willy Wonka of Cheese,” also known as Leprino Foods. The mozzarella was fly...

Slutty Vegan Is Expanding To Harlem This Fall

Slutty Vegan’s 100% vegan fast food offerings Madelynne Boykin A popular vegan fast food restaurant is expanding in New York, just weeks after bringing the Atlanta-based concept to Brooklyn. Slu...

Gregorys Coffee Is A Plant-Based Mecca

With partners like Eat Just and Beyond Meat, Gregorys Coffee has plenty of vegan options. Ted + Chelsea Cavanaugh If there’s any virtue within the food and drink industry that feels distinctly America...

Here’s A Clean, Plant-Based And Healthy Hurricane Nutrition Plan

If you’re expecting extreme weather, its normal to panic… Especially if you want to feed your family nutritious meals, knowing that there may be loss of power and water for an indefinite period....

Airlines revamp in-flight menus, from vegan meatballs to ice cream sundaes

Courtesy: Singapore Airlines The aromas of airplane food are once again wafting through cabins at 35,000 feet. From vegan meatballs to ice cream sundaes, airlines are offering new options and old favo...

How ‘Meat The Future’ Helped Inspire The Cultivated Meat Trend

Nuggets made from lab-grown chicken meat are displayed during a media presentation in Singapore, the … [+] first country to allow the sale of meat created without slaughtering any animals, on De...

Lifeless Market For Meatless Meat, What Clif Bar’s Founders Will Net And Kellogg’s Spinoff Strategy

Did you catch my feature published last Saturday on the lifeless market for meatless meat? It’s gotten a lot of buzz. One food investor tweeted it out with a particularly strong reaction, saying the a...

Prince William Urges TV Industry To Become More Sustainable

LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 16: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, President of the British Academy … [+] of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) tours a new exhibition at the charity’s ...

How Sustainability May Alter The Food Chain

This is a beautiful, natural-looking scene. But not the future of the food industry. (Photo by Tom … [+] Stoddart/Getty Images) Getty Images However interested consumers might be in sustainabili...

Hope For The Formula Shortage, McDonald’s Leaves Russia, And Soaring Chicken Prices

Through the early weeks of the pandemic, fake meat sales grew some 200% at retail, and that hype helped drive the sector to secure more than $2 billion in funding. A lot of that came from venture capi...

What The West’s Drought Means For Food, Why The Food Industry Needs Economic Justice And Have We Reached Peak Vegan Chicken Nugget?

I started Fresh Take to keep sustainability at the forefront of the conversation every week, not just when the newsletter falls on Earth Day. That said, I’ve put together a particularly climate-focuse...

Did The ‘Vegan Mafia’ Overhype Beyond Meat Stock?

Beyond Meat hamburger is seen in a pub in Milan, Italy, on January 04 2020. (Photo by Mairo … [+] Cinquetti/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images This week, Unovis Asset Managemen...