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Essential Food Workers Are at Unique Risk for COVID-19. Some Are Fighting Back.

EATER

Department of Agriculture (USDA) on July 8, accusing Tyson and JBS USA of racial discrimination during the pandemic. Members of marginalized groups are more likely to work on the front lines of the food industry than in management positions, a systemic racial divide with potential life-and-death consequences.

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The Best Takeout in Durham

KaTom

The Best Takeout Restaurants in Durham (According to Us). As people look to take a break from kitchen duties, feeding their families every night during social distancing, KaTom is suggesting some takeout restaurants for a handful of cities across the country.

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The Great Shortage

EATER

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. At its start, the pandemic brought us images of vast trenches of rotting onions, piles of abandoned produce, and lakes of wasted milk, dumped by farmers who no longer had restaurants to buy their products.

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Picking Fruit and Dodging the Law With Singapore’s Foragers

EATER

From the restaurant’s air-conditioned dining room, she had tasked me with helping gather ingredients for the dinner menu. We gathered what we needed and hustled back to the restaurant — before we attracted any unwanted attention. I focused on a little cluster of fruit dancing just beyond my fingertips and went for the pluck.

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How I Got My Job: Connecting Top Restaurants and Home Cooks with Heirloom Corn and Masa

EATER

Graydon Herriott Jorge Gaviria’s company, Masienda, is making a name for itself among chefs and home cooks — and building a more sustainable supply chain in the process In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Jorge Gaviria.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Key findings for the restaurant industry include: Restaurant Closures Data. Restaurants had a high rate of permanent closures.

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

EATER

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. Located on a working farm that was once part of a sprawling Rockefeller estate, the restaurant is a beacon of the sustainable food movement.

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