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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. This was largely due to a favorable shift in the Thanksgiving holiday. Same-store sales growth was 1.6

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

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Eighteen former workers at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture allege dysfunction in the livestock program at America’s most famous regenerative farm “This isn’t a joke,” police told the Daily Voice , a hyperlocal news site in Westchester County, New York, on August 30, 2018. “We A steer has been neutered.)

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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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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. The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a nonprofit regenerative farm and educational center, opened in 2004 on the site of a former dairy farm.

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Orange Is the New Yolk

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Later, I fried one next to my last CSA (community-supported agriculture) egg, laid in the Catskills by a pasture-raised hen. On how the so-called farm egg and its yolk became unlikely fetish objects An egg yolk is precious; a hundred are terrifying. The video ends before they get the chance to become dough.

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The Tasting Menu at the End of the World

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SingleThread has been hailed as the pinnacle of farm-to-table dining. Like Blackberry Farm in Tennessee and the Willows Inn on Washington’s Lummi Island, SingleThread epitomizes an over-the-top ideal of farm-to-table dining. Kyle and Katina Connaughton at SingleThread Farm in Sonoma County, California.

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The Socially Conscious Shopper’s Guide to Buying Coffee and Tea

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The legacy of exploitation in the coffee and tea industries still manifests today, depressing wages and earnings for workers and degrading natural ecosystems. One, though not the only, aspect of that legacy is trade. The fair trade movement that solidified in the late 1980s as a Fair Trade certification sought to tip the scales in favor of workers.

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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. mainland.

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