Interviews

Silicon Valley startup The EVERY Co, which makes precision-fermented egg proteins, recently collaborated with Colombia's largest CPG food company. It signposts the company's increased retail focus, which its CEO Arturo Elizondo and…
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The below conversation is the transcript of the first episode of the podcast miniseries Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers featuring Josh Tetrick, founder and CEO of Eat Just and GOOD Meat, interviewed by show host…
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Konscious Foods founder and president Yves Potvin talks to Green Queen about microwaving frozen sushi, plant-based meat's challenges, consumer reception of its rolls, poke bowls and onigiri, and creating new vegan seafood analogues. …
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In our Indian Changemakers series, we interview brands and founders shaping the future of food in the world's most populous country. Here, we speak to Komal Khosla, founder of Delhi-based vegan craft chocolate brand Carra, about the…
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As she gears up to release her second cookbook, Plantasia, Singapore-born chef and food writer Pamelia Chia tells Green Queen about why she hates the term 'meat substitute', why vegetables rule, and the three things you should always have…
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Thin Lei Win talks to former James Beard exec, GWU Terker fellow and communications expert Katherine Miller about her new book and why chefs are the perfect advocates to bring about structural change to food systems.  I used to think I…
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Based in Southern Italy, Foreverland is the latest cocoa-free producer making a sustainable alternative to chocolate. Its co-founder Giuseppe D’Alessandro speaks to Green Queen about its Freecao chocolate, what sets it apart from other…
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Mother Pearl, which opened in 2020 as Hong Kong's first vegan bubble tea shop, is an outlier in the space. On the heels of opening its fifth location in the city this Monday, and ahead of launching the sixth store this weekend, its founder…
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Hong Kong-based Clean Coffee is a sustainable specialty coffee business whose flagship café doubles as a launderette. Its co-founder Cynthia Lok met Green Queen to talk about all things coffee, sustainability, oat milk surcharges and…
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Often described as a food writer, I tend to see Kennedy as a food thinker. Her unique writing style is full of questions and complicated discussions. She does not peddle in easy answers and tidy solutions. Her From The Desk of Alicia…
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Sandhya Sriram is co-founder and CEO at Shiok Meats, a Singapore-headquartered cultivated meat and seafood company founded in 2018 that has raised over $30 million in funding. Below, she talks to Green Queen‘s Sonalie Figueiras about where…
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The World Wildlife Federation (WWF)'s Global Head of Communications, Food Practice, Peter McFeely, talks to Green Queen's Sonalie Figueiras about the organization's new Planet-Based Diets Calculator tool, why local change is crucial for…
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Global seafood company Thai Union has made alternative proteins a key part of its future business strategy. Not only has the company launched multiple lines of plant-based seafood alternatives including vegan tuna under its flagship John…
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An interview with PBFA's Vice President of Marketplace Development about the data from their latest report, the evolution of the US plant-based foods industry and where things are going next. US industry group the Plant Based Foods…
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Green Queen's Sonalie Figueiras shares her reservations about Vow's global headline-grabbing cultivated mammoth meatball event with company founder and CEO George Peppou in this exclusive interview. "We created the mammoth meatball to…
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If you're in the know in the food tech world, then you will surely have heard Maya Benami's name. The Israeli food-tech scientist is the secret research whisperer to the global alternative protein industry, consulting on all matters of…
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Andrea Hernández is the founder of Snaxshot, a platform for emerging food and beverage brands whose newsletter has become a must-read amongst young founders and veteran CPG brand folks alike thanks to her astute observations and just…
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It's hard to think of someone who holds truth to power as effectively and as committedly as George Monbiot. The multi-award-winning British thinker, journalist, activist, and long-time environmentalist has been speaking out on the ills of…
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Green Queen's Sonalie Figueiras interviews non-profit founder and food culture expert Eve Turow-Paul about food, climate and how to empower people to change what's on their plate for a more sustainable future. Author, consultant and…
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Hang Lung Properties’ John Haffner and LVMH's Nicolas Martin, talk to Green Queen about their new climate and sustainability partnership. Last month, Chinese real estate leader Hang Lung Properties and French luxury giant LVMH group…
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An interview with Chloe Sorvino, financial journalist, Forbes Food & AG editor and author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat, a new book that takes an in-depth investigative look into…
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