The Possibility DansCause is creating for the food ecosystem is the possibility of being Transparent and Healthy   Most of the idea's should revolve around handing over the decision making process to the now well informed consumer. As of now, we have too many multi-corporate agrabusinesses... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Dan Simerman.

Develop a small and portable device that measures purity of the milk. Impure and contaminated milk is a big problem in China, India and many other developing countries. Over 50% of the milk is distributed by small dairy owners and distributors and less than 50% by the large companies. Due to... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Pankaj Maheshwari.

Recipes often are either too large or too small for the group I'm feeding that evening, and I'm not always interested in having leftovers of a dish.  Who needs potato salad that serves an army when all you've got is a small regiment? Halving a recipe is easy, but what if you need a 3/5 or a... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Julie Baron.

I do my best to ensure my family is consuming a balanced diet, but how good a job am I actually doing?  At the beginning of each week, I select recipes from various sites that I like and from a stack of recipe books, and I make sure to add fruit, cereal and healthy snacks into the mix, but I... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Julie Baron.

As a novice bread baker, I begin each loaf with the hopes that it will emerge from my oven with the dream combination of a beautiful soft crumb, perfectly stretched and crunchy crust and great, evenly bloomed oven spring.  However, more often than not, one or more of these it items seems to... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Julie Baron.

Every week, I receive a CSA box that contains many different fruits and vegetables, some of which are rather unusual.  I then search a few standard websites to find recipes that use as many of these ingredients in as few different recipes as possible (in other words, recipes that use two or... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Julie Baron.