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How I Got My Job: Creating a New Vision for Vegan Cooking at a Top NYC Restaurant

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In her early 20s, Freeman worked as a front-of-house manager at a popular bar and restaurant in Washington D.C. Last year, I did a residency at J Vineyards in Sonoma for three weeks, and a two-week residency in Costa Rica. During the open house, they mentioned they were launching this health-supportive culinary arts program.

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

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I hire people based on their work experience and personality and I don’t care where they went to college. I worked back of house at Boulettes Larder and Michael Mina , then went to front of house at Saison. Then, I moved back to the East Coast to do my post-bacc and med school at Harvard.

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The Return of the American Rail Dining Car

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The magical communal breakfast I experienced back in 2005 was likely the beginning of the end of traditional rail dining service as we know it. I spent the night seated at a table in the lounge car waiting for 6:30 a.m. breakfast time — with three other lone travelers. A rose sat in a small vase by the window.

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A Fool’s Choice

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Donovan’s first job at McCormack’s Margot Café is a far cry from her time at her first steady restaurant job at TradeWinds, a “22-­seat Italian cigar den housed in a double-­wide trailer on a dirt hillside corner” in Valparaiso, Florida. Lisa Donovan | Photo courtesy of Lisa Donovan. Monica Burton. ax” and “a straight?up

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What a Surge in Union Organizing Means for Food and Farm Workers

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Indeed, the list is growing: Baristas making caramel macchiatos at Starbucks; farmworkers tending grapes at a Long Island vineyard; meatpacking workers processing chickens in Texas; and factory workers boxing chocolate bars at Hershey are all fighting for union representation and taking a stand for workers’ rights. This trend. This trend.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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Movie images: Janus Films, MovieStillsDB, Walt Disney Studios/MovieStillsDB, New Line Cinema/MovieStillsDB, Getty Images What to add to your Netflix queue when you want to feel really hungry For just about as long as there have been movies, food has played a meaningful role in film. But what exactly constitutes a great food movie?

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