It was the summer of 2019, and I had just developed the greatest smoothie recipe in the world. Well, to be completely accurate, I kind of ripped it off of a very expensive New York-based coffee chain ...

You might remember the old Vita-Mix commercials, where the blender turns a two-by-four into sawdust, or the ones a few years back when well-known chefs posed in the buff with the machine. The ads ...