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‘We Need to Feed People — Thousands of People’

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I just thought, The power is out, everybody is home and these houses are like matchboxes, just going up in flames.” The Noguchis built Chef Hui in 2018 to strengthen relationships between Hawaiʻi’s chefs, farmers, and food producers and the community at large, and during the pandemic, it organized efforts to feed vulnerable communities.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

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We’re also seeing many of our clients find new ways to be more sustainable in sourcing their food products. For example, we have one client who has moved away from traditional meat options, and their focus is on sustainably sourced oysters and oyster mushrooms, which are grown on-site. Think paper straws versus plastic.

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An Eater’s Guide to Visiting (and Drinking) Champagne 

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Lots of the houses had little trains you could take [through the cellars] that were reminiscent of something you would have seen at Disney World,” remembers Christian Holthausen, a French-American strategic consultant in the wine & spirits industry, of his early career in Champagne in the 1990s.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Man Known as ‘Putin’s Chef,’ Explained

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As head of the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group, Prigozhin is a cog in Putin’s war against Ukraine. He started out in the food business in the 1990s, first selling hot dogs, then running restaurants, and, finally, operating a sprawling catering company called Concord that now effectively functions as the parent company of the Wagner Group.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

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After dropping off most of the load at my cousin’s house, I took my cut, a private stash of two boxes. It was 2018, and that order of mangoes was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. My cousin knew a Pakistani guy who had acquired the best stuff money could buy, rare varietals that were spoken of in hushed, reverent tones at parties.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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Movie images: Janus Films, MovieStillsDB, Walt Disney Studios/MovieStillsDB, New Line Cinema/MovieStillsDB, Getty Images What to add to your Netflix queue when you want to feel really hungry For just about as long as there have been movies, food has played a meaningful role in film. But what exactly constitutes a great food movie?

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Picking Fruit and Dodging the Law With Singapore’s Foragers

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We also needed bunga kantan, known as torch ginger — a flower that grows like a pink flame and a key component for a local sweet-savory classic called rojak — and pepper leaves, flashy green leaves used as ground cover throughout Singapore that yield a sharp flavor, which the chef uses in a take on miang kham, a street food popular in Thailand.