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A LETTER TO CULINARY SCHOOL GRADUATES

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BAR-B-QUE JOINT: Maybe your goal is to work in a white tablecloth restaurant and the thought of investing your time in an operation with paper tabletops and bottles of hot sauce on the table does not sit well with your plan. This is nearly 70% of all restaurant diners.

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This Is Muffin-Top Dining

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Molly Valdez & Judson Valdez Why eating only the best part might actually be the worst Bad Roman, the latest restaurant from the Quality Branded group, is three flights up the Shops at Columbus Circle, above the Whole Foods and past the Paper Source, in an upscale Manhattan mall. It remains impossible to get into.

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Is the Minimalist Restaurant Menu Over?

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It’s a familiar scene: After sitting down at a table, the waiter brings you a sheet of fancy paper with the day’s menu printed in pretty fonts. The breast of the chicken is cubed, seasoned, and swiftly sautéed in a mixture of oil and white egg. Including information about ingredient sourcing, of course, has long been popular.

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Top 40 Restaurants in Portland

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Tusk is a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurant that locally sources the freshest ingredients from Portland and Oregon’s fruitful farms. In the Buckman Neighborhood, Tusk has a wonderfully light and airy dining space painted all white with a minimalist aesthetic. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tusk (@tuskpdx).

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An Eater’s Guide to Madeira, Portugal

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Madeira’s vibe can be a bit hard to pin down, but a good starting point is to envision a slightly less tropical, more rugged, European-influenced Hawai‘i. Its cuisine has been influenced by ingredients, people, and techniques from across the world. But the island’s cuisine has also been broadly shaped by its role as a shipping outpost.

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‘In Pursuit of Flavor’ Taught Us to Treat Ingredients With Respect

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But then again, there were no white people in Freetown. It was the food of privation, of people making do with scraps and things from cans to substitute for ingredients they missed from back home (though later, this became a source of pride). And yet still not enough, considering the tremendous influence she had on American cooking.

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Our Favorite Places to Eat in Kalamazoo

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Kalamazoo, Michigan, also known as Paper City, is a small town that’s nice to stop by when you’re traveling through the state. It was apparent that Rustica blends influences from Spain, Italy, France, and other European countries in their dishes. Their specialty is Greek cuisine and other Mediterranean influences.