Pot Luck Food Talks: Kitchen Stories From Behind the Pass11 Mai 2025

Food Systems Ft. Johan Jörgensen: Can Chefs Save the Planet?

🎙️ EP133 – 🍽️ Johan Jörgensen thinks so. The Sweden Food Tech founder joins Eric to talk about how our food system got so broken—and why chefs, not consumers, are the real agents of change. From blood desserts that recruit blood donors to chocolate made from beer waste, this episode is a crash course in what’s possible when innovation meets the kitchen.

🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:

💥 From Tech to Food – Why Johan left casinos and dating apps to fix the food system.

🌍 Big Food, Small Blame – Why blaming food corporations misses the point.

🥦 Fixing Food Fixes Everything – From climate to chronic disease.

🧪 Industrial Calorie Machines – How we built a system for shelf life, not health.

👩‍🍳 Chefs Will Shift the Planet – Why you (yes, you) are the most important people in the world.

🩸 Blood Dessert QR Codes – A mind-blowing dish that turns diners into donors.

🧑‍🍳 Community Leadership in Crisis – The chef who fed NYC's first responders during COVID.

🍫 Chocolate from Beer Waste – Saving the planet, one fermented truffle at a time.

🥳 Punk Fine Dining – A Stockholm restaurant that locks up your phone and turns up the party.

🇸🇪 Swedish Food Culture – From Protestant porridge to New Nordic liberation.

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