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Reforming Food Practices in State Correctional Institutions – One Facility at a Time

Culinary Digital

The Current State of Food Practices Source : Adobe Stock In many state-run correctional institutions, food is prepared in large quantities and is often pre-packaged and reheated. In 2017, the Pew Charitable Trust estimated the average daily cost of feeding an inmate to be $3.02.

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Go Ahead and Make Your AI Recipe. It Won’t Be Good.

EATER

A recipe for “small sandwiches” from 2017 included the measurement “1 salad dressing.” If the problem is ensuring a recipe is from a trusted and reliable source, the amalgamation of information coming from these language models does not actually give you anything more trusted, and in fact obscures that knowledge.

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How to Meet The Needs of Today’s Coffee Shop Customer

Perfect Daily Grind

Meanwhile, in the UK, the industry is seeing year-on-year growth and, in 2017, market research firm Mintel stated that the UK was seeing its “biggest period of growth since 2008”. And between 2017 and 2019, sales of instant decaf were up 20%, while one coffee shop reported that their decaf sales had tripled in this period.

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Los Angeles Brunch Spots to Check Out This Weekend

Restaurant Clicks

One of my favorite things about Salt’s Cure is that they strive to use only California ingredients unless they need to source them from elsewhere sustainably. Manuela is located inside an industrial warehouse where the chefs celebrate the ingredients they can source from Southern California.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Since every part of Ono’s assembly process is monitored by hundreds of sensors to ensure there is no spillage, cross-contamination, or inconsistencies; customers with dietary restrictions, allergies, or simply specific preferences no longer have to worry that their blend might include ingredients it shouldn’t.

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The Pop-Ups Celebrating Blackness in Food

EATER

I source intentionally from Black producers and farmers that I met in my travels and in my research. It doesn’t have the restrictions of a brick-and-mortar space. That’s becoming more and more popular as we’re recognizing how many people have dietary restrictions. That’s Honeysuckle in a nutshell.

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

EATER

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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