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Tech to Trash Can – How Technology Is Redefining Food Waste

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More than ever, we’re seeing threats at the source. The Department of Agriculture estimates that U.S. While it’s still necessary to take full inventories on a regular cadence, for the sake of calculating food waste, doing a quick inventory of the top items is a lot faster than running through everything on the menu.

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How (and Why) to Forage for Ant Eggs in a Northeastern Thai Forest

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But Num says the exercise isn’t about gathering enough eggs to fill out a menu. Though the region is a huge agricultural powerhouse, it’s relatively poor and chronically underrated by city folk from Bangkok and Central Thailand, akin to the divide between coastal capitals and flyover states in the U.S. Chef Num at work.

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Three New Cookbooks Celebrate Foraging

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The primary source of sustenance for most of human history, foraging began to fall out of fashion with the invention of agriculture about 12,000 years ago, and its decline continued somewhat steadily until 2020. Organized by season into four main sections, the book begins with the sunlit sensory overload of spring.

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The Creemee Is the Ultimate Taste of Vermont Summer

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But, as popular as Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey may be from Spain to Malaysia, they aren’t the frozen treats that green-blooded Vermonters crave during the state’s brief summer season. Many shops source theirs from Kingdom Creamery , based in the state’s Northeast Kingdom region (others source from Hood, based in Lynnfield, Massachusetts).

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10 Tips to Effectively Control Restaurant Food Costs

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Restaurants that succeed in improving their food costs without immediately resorting to band-aid strategies like raising their menu prices or trying to work with less staff gain a tremendous competitive advantage. Make It Seasonal. Then, calculate what percentage of your menu price comes from food. Recalculate Food Costs.

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

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As travel season approaches, we anticipate seeing more people lean into making their vacation destinations feel more like home, with an increase in activities like cooking while traveling! Savvy operators will adapt their menu and model to accommodate more flexible ordering options – but with a renewed focus on the bottom line.

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An Eater’s Guide to Madeira, Portugal

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Transplanted from Sicily in the early 15th century, the crop flourished, and Madeira quickly became a large source of sugar for the rest of Europe. Some of these mills distill sugarcane juice into agricultural rum, while others produce molasses that makes its way into local sweets. Borges, one of the traditional Madeira winehouses.