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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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2008: Cereal Milk launches an empire Christina Tosi invented or popularized a number of household-name desserts — Compost Cookies, Crack Pie ( now Milk Bar Pie ), naked cakes — but her Cereal Milk, which she initially developed at Wylie Dufresne’s wd~50, reshaped the dessert world.

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Boulder Restaurants You Need To Try This Week

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This former summer cabin-turned fine dining restaurant became part of the Monette family in 1971 and has served locals and tourists alike for over five decades. Dining choices have a four-course menu and a chef’s tasting menu. With so many excellent dining options in Boulder, I chose to brunch at the teahouse.

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Seattle Pizzerias You Need to Visit Today

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You can bet that Seattle’s west coast bounty of fresh fish and produce underlies a food scene that is equally as fresh, and when combined with Seattle’s unique creativity, makes for a fun, new, and exciting dining experience. Seattle pizza restaurants aptly portray the alternative and innovative spirit of this west coast gem.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. At a talk in 2010 , he described his treatment of his cooks as “a little bit abusive.” COMPOST oven: 155 degrees.

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

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In 2009, Greg moved to the Del Taco brand, where we were chosen as Franchise Operator of the Year in both 2009 and 2010. SpotOn is quickly becoming a part of everyday life for consumers across the country whenever they shop, dine, or visit a stadium or a college campus.” I've been looking for a new, buzzing location.

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

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Etana Diaz, who began her career as a pastry chef and a line cook in fine dining, but found her true love for butchery after discovering that pastry wasn’t her passion. an offshoot of the Hot Shoppes family-dining chain that eventually was rebranded as Roy Rogers Restaurants. Tough to measure up to.

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The Tasting Menu at the End of the World

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SingleThread has been hailed as the pinnacle of farm-to-table dining. Like Blackberry Farm in Tennessee and the Willows Inn on Washington’s Lummi Island, SingleThread epitomizes an over-the-top ideal of farm-to-table dining. Kyle and Katina Connaughton at SingleThread Farm in Sonoma County, California. On March 16, Gov.

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