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How this top Brooklyn restaurant is able to pay teams more than industry average

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When the pandemic forced restaurant shutdowns, Huang turned his uncle's Fresh Meadows restaurant, Peking House, into a fried chicken popup, also called Pecking House, albeit with a spelling variation. He joined us on the Pre-Shift Podcast to tell us about his new restaurant, paying fair wages, and how he feels about tipping.

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The Dark Kitchen | Season 5, Vol. 4: Wow Bao

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Alexander talks about how he started back in 1993 with the privately held restaurant group Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants that Rich Melman launched in 1971. Adding, “In 2009 I took over the concept of Wow Bao, a three unit brick and mortar store in Chicago serving steamed asian buns, potstickers and rice bowls.” says Alexander.

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The Publishing World Is Finally Embracing Black Cookbooks

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Between 1950 and 2018, 95 percent of the books published by major publishing houses, like Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House, were written by white authors, according to a New York Times op-ed by Richard Jean So and Gus Wezerek. But Black authors, editors, and booksellers have long been doing the work.

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How I Got My Job: Leading the Dining Program at a Working Farm and Writing Cookbooks

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She began to answer these queries more formally in her column for the daily Traverse City Record-Eagle , which then inspired her first cookbook: Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables. “I I wanted to really give people a resource for how to cook with all of this produce that we were growing,” she explains. Then, I write the menu.

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Sun, Sand, and Spaghetti

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There would be like 15 of us cousins back there, just holding on to whatever we could,” says Zorrilla, who grew up in New York but spent each summer with family in the Dominican Republic. Once, my cousin was goofing off and flew out the back when my uncle hit the gas.”. Those roads are paved now,” Zorrilla laments.

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

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David Chang’s new memoir grapples with the white-hot fury that defined most of his career. But as an employee on the receiving end of that rage, the book fails to account for trauma he caused me. David Chang changed the way America eats. Along with Momofuku’s rise has come Chang’s own.

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Top Restaurants with Private Dining Rooms in Austin

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Fixe Southern House. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fixe Southern House (@fixesouthernhouse). Fixe Southern House serves traditional southern foods and has been highlighted in Fort Worth Magazine. Fixe Southern House is on 5th St near Republic Square in downtown Austin (take bus 20). Lamar Blvd.

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