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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. Tiled shophouses surrounded the hill, and beyond, the austere skyline loomed like a glittering tidal wave.

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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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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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‘The Zuni Cafe Cookbook’ Is a Master Class in California Cuisine

EATER

Afterward, she would have gone to Stanford to study art history and then to law school and a distinguished career in the foreign service, because Rodgers, in addition to being a planner, was smart and thoughtful about details. Louis, eating supermarket vegetables and pizza covered in processed cheese. arrival and made her a good ham sandwich.

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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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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

EATER

For 15 years, the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture tried to fix the food system by educating children and producing new farmers. On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. Some came out crying.

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Make it This Winter and Step Up To The Table

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature resources to help restaurants survive the winter weather and the learning how to improve bread-baking skills. " The platform will continue to house a variety of helpful COVID-related materials as well as evolving resources to address new and emerging challenges. ."

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