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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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While staff did work with local, seasonal, unique ingredients, servers and cooks alike say they grew uncomfortable telling stories about some of the restaurant’s sourcing and preparation practices, including for a number of its signature dishes, which they considered misleading.

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Orange Is the New Yolk

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By the late aughts, the egg had been been given a bespoke agrarian rebranding: In 2008, Frank Bruni lamented the redundancy of a “hen egg” on the menu at Momofuku Ko; the following year, Eleven Madison Park was serving a poached “farm egg with Parmesan foam,” topped also with brown butter hollandaise and asparagus.

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MRM People & Places: Game On at Walk-On’s and Gingerbread Houses for Humanity

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” Throughout 2020, the culinary team at Walk-On’s will feature select burgers from the menu as the “Game On Burger.” “Everything we serve will be fresh, top quality, and sourced from the best markets around the world. ” For every burger sold, $0.50 will be donated to the Foundation.

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

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When TSFR sold the Burger King busi­ness in 2015, Laura transitioned to the Director of Learning & Development for Del Taco and MOD Pizza. Real-Time Menu Optimization : Promote items with short preparation times (or higher margins) when things are busy. The additional features drive off-premise sales while minimizing costs.

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Hawai?i’s Mushroom Boom Is Here

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He plucks them from composted wood chips nestled in cardboard boxes, and carefully puts them in a clean new box. Yang smiles as he shows off his heaping compost pile: He says he reclaims three to five tons of organic green waste every few weeks to produce substrate, the woody equivalent of soil, for his mushrooms.

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