08/27/2026
From bugs to ‘buognese’ to bookshelves. 🦗🍝📚
Back in 2015, Lee Cadesky (Lee Cadesky) came into the TFF community with C-fu FOODS and a wonderfully unconventional question: could insects become the basis for an entirely new category of food?
The answer involved a lot of food science, a cricket-and-mealworm pasta sauce (affectionately dubbed “bugognese”), a startup, an exit, a corporate gig… and a wild life spent questioning what food is, what it could be, and why we eat the things we do.
More than a decade after pitching live at TFF Lisbon, Lee has turned her curiosity about the future of food into a must-read book.
"Grub: Why We Eat, Why It Matters, and the Seven Forces That Shape Our Food” explores the biology, culture, history, and technology behind what ends up on our plates - and what might end up there next.
We love seeing all the places our TFFers go and the heights they reach. Because sometimes the “crazy” idea you start with becomes a company. Sometimes it changes your career.
And sometimes, it becomes a book. 💜
Congratulations, Lee!
👉 Find Grub at leecadesky.com
And TFFers: if you’ve written a book, published something interesting, built something unexpected, or have a story the community should know about, tell us. We want to feature you, too!
