The rise of ghost kitchens was prominent during the COVID lockdown because people could not dine out and struggled to buy groceries. For the uninitiated, ghost kitchens are delivery-only food establishments. Regular restaurants have a logistics and food preparation backend and a service frontend that is visible to customers. Meanwhile, ghost kitchens don’t have a…
No one can explicitly predict the future of food in 2050. However, judging by advances in food cultivation, development, processing, and preservation over the years, we may have some luck with predicting the trajectory of the food industry in a few decades. Innovations in virtually all facets of life are materializing at the speed of…
The evolution of street food is an easy part of human history to overlook. You know, it’s one of those things that just is, and we seldom bother to question it. From food carts in public places to snack stalls in the middle of a market, street food is a ubiquitous phenomenon in every culture…
Not everyone supports maintaining an emergency food stockpile. Some folks see making such preemptive plans as a sign of chronic pessimism. However, it is better to be safe than sorry in emergencies. The recent pandemic was a good example of an emergency that caused toilet paper shortages in the US and food chain disruptions around…
In this piece, we shall answer the question, “Is microwaving food bad?” The average kitchen in a 21st-century home or restaurant features at least one microwave oven. This is enough evidence that technology has become an integral part of our culinary habits and everyday lives. Indeed, even folks who do not have the appliance at…
