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Building a Food Culture

Modern Restaurant Management

Work Ethic Food businesses require a lot of work, famously known in the agriculture world with farmers working early mornings and late nights to harvest, pack, process and ship food items. This is also well-known in foodservice with the fast-paced work required in back and front of house.

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How I Got My Job: Leading the Dining Program at a Working Farm and Writing Cookbooks

EATER

I get to work with the agriculture teams, which manage our vegetable and grain production, and the retail team, which leads the farm store and the online farm store. I wanted to really give people a resource for how to cook with all of this produce that we were growing,” she explains. The cooks and I take that and brainstorm dishes.

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Dumbo Bars You Should Visit For A Drink Tonight

Restaurant Clicks

Time Out Market New York Olympia Wine Bar Atrium DUMBO Henry Street Ale House The Binc AlMar 68 Jay Street Bar Superfine Randolph Beer DUMBO Brooklyn Heights Wine Bar & Kitchen Evil Twin Brewing NYC – DUMBO Dumbo Station Gran Electrica Seamore’s Dumbo. And, what better way to get to know an area than by trying out some local bars?

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How to Reduce and Track Restaurant Food Waste

Xtra Chef

Department of Agriculture estimates that restaurants waste $162 billion in food each year. Food waste is a serious environmental and humanitarian issue. But restaurant food waste poses a huge problem for overall profitability in the business: The U.S. Food costs are responsible for most of the expenses a restaurant has.

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My Vegetable Scrubber Brings Me Peace of Mind 

EATER

Once you try one, you’ll wonder why you bothered cleaning produce with past-their-prime sponges or dish towels In a bid to cut down on grocery trips last year, I signed up for a community supported agriculture (CSA) box. Every Thursday, the produce arrives fresh as can be, usually unwashed and occasionally housing a live insect.

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How I Got My Job: Founding a Hip and Sustainable Canned Wine Company

EATER

I got a full-ride scholarship to UMass Amherst, where I majored in sustainable agriculture and gender studies and minored in English literature. UMass has an incredible sustainable agriculture program and an amazing community garden that feeds into a co-op vegan restaurant. Only 30 percent of glass bottles are recycled in the U.S.,

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Climate Disaster Looks Like Thousands of Boiled-Alive Mussels on a Beach in Vancouver

EATER

More than a billion marine animals died in the heatwave that swept across the Western U.S. and Canada last month. The climate crisis doesn’t exist in some hypothetical future — it’s already here. It is one of the most searing images yet of the ongoing climate crisis. Where the heat wave didn’t kill oysters, it made the people who ate them sick.