Skip To Main Content
Larissa Zimberoff on Muck Rack

Larissa Zimberoff

(She/Her)
California, New York, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay
As seen in: MSN, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Business Insider, The Economic Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TIME, Mashable and
Covers:  Food, food-tech, climate (as it relates to food), sustainability
Doesn't Cover: If it's not food related, I don't cover it.
Write for @FastCompany, @TheInformation, @Wired, @TheAtlantic. Author of: Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat.

Get in touch with Larissa

Contact Larissa, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Larissa Zimberoff’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Larissa Zimberoff is an investigative journalist who covers the intersection of food, technology and business. She is the author of "Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat" (Abrams Press, 2021), which was a finalist for the California Golden Poppy Awards. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired, The Atlantic, The Information, Fast Company and many other publications. She appeared in the recent documenta…

Larissa Zimberoff’s Journalist Portfolio

The Three Young Founders Looking at Food Tech’s Dark Age in a New Light

The Three Young Founders Looking at Food Tech’s Dark Age in a New Light

Investors have largely lost their hunger for new-age food and lab-grown meat startups. Except for Prolific Ma…

View article →
Your Plastic-Free Kitchen

Your Plastic-Free Kitchen

First steps in getting PFAS "forever chemicals" out of your diet

View article →
A High-Tech Strawberry-and Our Other Favorite Fancy Fruit - The Information.pdf

A High-Tech Strawberry-and Our Other Favorite Fancy Fruit - The Information.pdf

Most founders can’t squeeze a dime out of investors these days. Yet a robot-powered strawberry farm raised $1…

View article →
This Bay Area 'chocolate' is missing the most obvious ingredient

This Bay Area 'chocolate' is missing the most obvious ingredient

Voyage Foods is making chocolate and peanut butter in the Bay Area, minus the chocolate...

View article →
Foodtech investors are making a mammoth mistake

Foodtech investors are making a mammoth mistake

Whiz-bang foodtech demos like the mammoth meatball aren't helping fix a food system that needs more things th…

View article →
Lab-Made Honey Tastes Like the Real Deal. Is That a Good Thing? - Larissa Zimberoff

Lab-Made Honey Tastes Like the Real Deal. Is That a Good Thing? - Larissa Zimberoff

Chefs around the country are buzzed on the vegan alternative, but not all are convinced it'll save the bees.

View article →

Articles

Shiso Fine Cocktail

|
By Larissa Zimberoff
| Saveur Verified
By Larissa Zimberoff Published on April 24, 2026 Peppery green shiso takes a sophisticated lead in this lighthearted yet elegant cocktail served at Smoke Door Lake Tahoe Saryo. For best results, use the ripest, in-season peaches. Otherwise, substitute with frozen, which are still harvested and processed at peak ripeness. This recipe makes more peach vodka and shiso syrup than you need for one drink.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Out Of Body, Part III

|
By Larissa Zimberoff
| Edible San Francisco Verified
Today isn’t about the miles I drive or the map I follow. I could be anywhere but I’m here. Where doesn’t matter. Maybe I’ll drop a pin to locate me? I’m a fast walker but today I slow down. In place of my mental chatter, I count my breaths. Inhale, exhale, repeat. Closely watching where my feet strike. Notice surroundings. Step down 79 stairs. Cross a wooden bridge. Listen to the plink of a tiny waterfall. My struggle isn’t finding beauty around me, it’s not forming the words when I see it.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Out Of Body, Part II

|
By Larissa Zimberoff
| Edible San Francisco Verified
I’m 116 miles from home. Needles, twigs, cones, and seeds scatter under my feet. This forest detritus is called duff. I shed my bags inside a green teepee that will be home for the next two nights. A 200-acre “home” that was once a Boy Scout camp. Images on my phone labeled September 2018: Me aiming a bow and arrow at a hay bale with a bullseye. Me sitting in class learning to make kombucha. A woman with a baby owl on her shoulder. Friends walk precariously over a log on a stream.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 566 licensed articles (603 Total)

Interview

See all →

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Bridget Jones

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Being a journalist means writing stories that explains something, sheds light on an important part of our life and gets the facts right.