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MAY 29, 2020

As a former trader, as someone who follows markets and who looks at statistics and enjoys that aspect of the hospitality business in order to provide better hospitality to optimize operations and all those things, I very quickly extrapolated it to my own restaurants, to the Alinea group. Nick Kokonas is an owner of both operations.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

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.)

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

Now, its mission is linked more than ever to fine dining destination Blue Hill at Stone Barns and a famous chef’s vision for trickle-down change. On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. Some came out crying. It was not a gentle pivot.

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