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How I Got My Job: Being a Professional Recipe Developer and Food Photographer

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Though Victa had earned a hospitality management degree in her native Philippines, she struggled to get hired without recognizable names on her resume, so she began her cooking career by flipping burgers and whipping up pasta dishes at the zoo. “It Eater: What does your job involve? What’s your favorite part about it? It’s my signature move.

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A Fool’s Choice

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Donovan’s first job at McCormack’s Margot Café is a far cry from her time at her first steady restaurant job at TradeWinds, a “22-­seat Italian cigar den housed in a double-­wide trailer on a dirt hillside corner” in Valparaiso, Florida. Lisa Donovan | Photo courtesy of Lisa Donovan. Monica Burton. ax” and “a straight?up

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Philadelphia Breweries Guide: Where to Drink Craft Beer Around the City

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Housed within an old factory building, with lots of brick and green plants, this is sure to be a place you’ll want to come back to again and again. 1727 N Front St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Phone: 215-425-6820 Visit Website. Located in Callowhill, Love City Brewing Company is one of my favorite places in the city. Order Online.

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German Restaurants Are Expanding: 57 Concepts You Should Know

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While Germany has long been considered a country offering many traditional dishes, there are now an increasing number of restaurants popping up that are bringing new flavours to the table. You’ll find everything and anything: classic burger joints, steakhouses and pizzerias, but also cat temples and American diners. Nordsee is one of them.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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Flip (1909), in which a fed-up waitress who’s being harassed shoves a pie into the face of her tormentor, or The Gold Rush (1925), in which silent film icon Charlie Chaplin makes a soup of his own shoe , ladling the “broth” over the boiled boot before eating it with a knife and fork for Thanksgiving dinner. Well, that really depends.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

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New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know. TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees. TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)