This week, the Impact Award of the Healthy Innovation Awards (Gezonde Innovatie Awards) van Food Personality en FoodLog was presented. The first prize was received by the Sustainability Manager of retailer Lidl. The similarities between her work as a sustainability...
With only three days to go, I’m sharing my favourites of this year. It all started back in 2013 with a small ‘must-see’ list for students from HAS green academy, — those with an extraordinary interest in the future of food, innovation, design, and sustainability, to...
Rotterdam, Wednesday 24 September 2025 Today, the book Mastering Food Innovation was celebrated with a launch at the very place where innovation is literally in motion: Floating Farm Rotterdam. A select and colourful group of food innovators, entrepreneurs,...
I absolutely love this photo! Let me take you behind the scenes of how it came to be. For years, I’ve been a fan of Foodmaker. I first met Lieven Vanlommel many years ago at an event where he spoke about the journey leading up to building Starmeal and Foodmaker. He...
What is a food innovator? A trendwatcher? A product developer? A project manager? A keynote speaker? A writer of vision documents? Or someone down to earth working with farmers on local food chains? The answer is simple: all of the above. A true food innovator is a...
Absolutely over the moon! Today, Friday 30 May, my book ‘MASTERING FOOD INNOVATION | Impact by Design’ goes live on Amazon. Since I release the Start a Food Story newsletter every the last Friday of the month I was determined to align this month’s newsletter with the...
