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The Dinner Party Is Now Very Online

EATER

Speaking truth to that one 2011 Onion headline , Gelber learned to host as a student at Bard College, where the small size limited the nightlife options, and then spent time in London’s vibrant supper club scene. A 1970s dinner party. Her brand of instructive-meets-aspirational content comes at exactly the right time.

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Trudging Through the Tedious Swamp of Celebrity Brand Deals

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Sometimes that happens via social media posts (actress Sydney Sweeney x lip balm brand Laneige ), or appearances in subway ads or commercials ( Jenna Ortega in the Doritos Super Bowl ad this year), or through press junkets not unlike the ones an actor might do when they’re contractually obligated to promote their latest film.

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Parisian Gastronomy Goes Global

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Kei Kobayashi opened Restaurant Kei in 2011 to showcase his mastery of French flavors and techniques in haute cuisine; in 2020, it became the first restaurant helmed by a foreign-born chef to earn three Michelin stars in Paris. It earned a Michelin star in 2021 for its “colorful, punchy and well-seasoned food.” Oxte Myriad sauces at Oxte.

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The Way to Your Brain Is Through Your Stomach

EATER

Spend any time in the mental health and wellness corners of social media, and the answer seems to be a resounding yes : influencers all over the internet preach the gospel of using probiotics and diet to treat everything from depression and anxiety to PTSD. Can what you eat actually change your mind?

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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Black Tap hit at a moment when the recession was easing and millennials raised on the Food Network were all primed to claim their love of food as a part of their identity; coupled with the rise of image-based social media, every meal became an opportunity to post.

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9 Proven Strategies For Food Truck Business Promotion Plan In The UAE

The Restaurant Times

Starting from Dubai, it expanded to Abu Dhabi in 2010, initiated home deliveries in 2011, further expanded to Al Ain in 2016, added a variety of new cuisines in 2018, and finally launched an app and launched a production arm, namely “Desert Chill Kitchen” in 2019. . Social Media And Marketing. Source: LBB.

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The Fermented Foods Industry Is Built on Global Ingredients. So Why Are Its Most Visible Faces White?

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We struggled with access to financial and social capital, and were soon overshadowed by white entrepreneurs selling similar ferments. Whenever a media outlet wants to fill a pickling or fermenting space in print, online, and on social media,” they go with white fermenters, Sarah says.

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