Amazon Whole Foods. Tech is our pimp and even strung out vegan Daddy John Mackey needs a fix.
“These people, they just want to sell Whole Foods Market and make hundreds of millions of dollars, and they have to know that I’m going to resist that,” Mackey said to me at one point. “That’s my baby. I’m going to protect my kid, and they’ve got to knock Daddy out if they want to […]
New Food Podcast, Cornucopia-The Cult, Culture and Business of Food
Check out Cornucopia – The Cult, Culture and Business of Food, a new podcast with NBN’s Matt Levine and Jeremy Spiro-Winn. Food isn’t just fuel. It’s a part of culture. A ritual we share with others. A unifier. Cornucopia will explore these meanings and myths, the influencers and the influenced. Why people eat this and not […]
Halo Top Introduces World’s First Fried Chicken Ice Cream
Halo-Top the leader in low-calorie, high-protein, and low-sugar ice cream that slims your waistline and wallet at the same time, announced today it’s newest flavor, Fried Chicken Mint Chip. Justin Wolverton, recovering attorney and Halo-Top’s founder unveiled the limited-edition flavor outside a strip mall in Topanga Canyon today offering scoops to the sweaty masses outside the studio of Zumba By […]
Open Letter to Natural Products Expo West Attendees
Once again we reprint an NBN classic. ‘Confessions of a Booth Babe’ first appeared in March, 2006. Submitted by An Anonymous Body Care Booth Babe: Dear Retailers and Expo West Attendees, I had the dubious pleasure of working in a booth in the Personal Care Pavilion at Expo West earlier this year. Initially I was […]
Rumors of Our Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. Cornucopia, Our New Podcast Launches March 10th
If this website was a bear we’ve been hibernating irregularly. While NBN has been on top of trends our insights and commentary have been directed elsewhere, namely to clients and others that pay the old fashioned way, with checks rather than clicks. Yet we’ve got some exciting news. We’ll be launching a new podcast that […]
Congressional Support For Organic Weak; Organic’s “Lack of Respect for Traditional Agriculture” Troubling to One Congressman
A recent story by the Associated Press reported on the growing consumer demand for organic products also detailed the challenges to getting more supportive policies from a USDA and a Congress dominated by the interests of large agriculture. An effort to change current federal law to allow organic farmers to create an organic industry-wide marketing […]
SPINS Study Shows Strong Growth for Natural Retailers Despite Recession
While we’re still fuming from a study by Stanford researchers , news from the market research firm SPINS reminds us once again that consumers often ‘speak’ and think with greater clarity than the increasingly hazy world of science not to mention what brand managers in Northfield, Illinois, Battle Creek, Michigan and Purchase, New York would like us to […]
Austin Business Journal on Whole Foods’ Mackey’s Real Message
Okay its been a busy week and the weekend is here, but before you start blathering your opinions about Whole Foods John Mackey and his blundering book tour at that dinner party tonight, make some time to look at this story in the Austin Business Journal. Read it and perhaps you’ll understand why we still admire […]
Streisand’s I’ll Be Home For Ramadan CD to be Promoted by Near East Foods
Quaker Foods Near East brand announced today that the company would be offering free downloads of Barbra Streisand’s soon to be released I’ll Be Home For Ramadan CD. The announcement came just one week after the noted Semitic Songstress unveiled her new effort. According to the press release Streisand hopes to facilitate a new dialogue […]
Best-Selling Author John Berendt’s New York Kitchen
Our featured celebrity is the man who made history with his non-fiction masterpiece, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. While best known for his literary blockbuster, the non-fiction Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt began his career as a classic New York City journalist. At Harvard he worked on the […]