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 All the Best Japanese Snacks to Eat While Watching the Olympics
We can't be there in body, but we're definitely there in stomach With more circumstance than pomp, the Tokyo Olympics began on Friday with a toned-down opening ceremony that sought to set the mood for the games. And in a way, it has. A smaller Parade of Nations marched in front of empty stands, and a moment of silence acknowledged those lost in the past year (if not the full realities of the ongoing pandemic). The bumpy path to Tokyo 2020 has highlighted long-...
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How to Make 'Bake Off' Star Nadiya Hussain's Saag Paneer Spanakopita
Chris Terry
An impressive savory bake perfect for novice bakers Nadiya Hussain may still be known to most from her star turn on the Great British Bake Off in 2015. She won the TV competition, but even if she hadn't, it's likely she would have ended up right where she is now — with her own show, multiple cookbooks, and a devoted fan base. But although baking is what introduced Hussain to the world, she didn't publish a baking book until September 202...
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The Best Summertime Sandwiches, According to Eater Editors
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When it's too hot to cook, it's time to raid your fridge for condiments, grab a loaf of bread, and go to town with these recommended sandwich recipes It's hot. Just the thought of turning on the stove creates a light sheen of sweat on your upper brow, nevermind the idea of pulling on a pair of dish gloves, turning the faucet to hot, and scrubbing a sauce-slicked pot clean. Did we mention that it's hot? In other words, i...
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How Lodge Has Been Making Cast Iron Pans for Over 100 Years
'Dan Does' host Daniel Geneen takes a tour of the company's massive factory in Tennessee Cast iron pans are essential pieces of cookware and one of the most popular, widely available, and affordable brands comes from Lodge Cast Iron. On this episode of Dan Does, host Daniel Geneen takes a tour of the company's massive factory in South Pittsburg, Tennessee to see how the over 100-year-old brand creates one of the most consistent and widely loved cast iron p...
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The Arch Deluxe Was a Hell of a Burger. It Was Also McDonald's Most Expensive Flop.
In the '90s, fine dining chef Andrew Selvaggio was tasked with creating a burger that would appeal to sophisticated palates. The problem was no one wanted it. The year is 1996. Charles and Diana are divorcing, Jerry Maguire tops the box office, a Finn Dorset sheep named Dolly makes a friend made from her own mammary gland, and America's favorite sitcom is a show about nothing in which four neurotic New Yorkers debate life's finer points. Such sophisticated t...
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Does It Get Better For the Indie Fine Dining Restaurant?
Chef Russell Jackson opened the fine dining restaurant Reverence in Harlem just months before the pandemic began. | Gary He
Chefs Russell Jackson and Ian Boden struggled to reconcile their visions of fine dining with their communities' desires. Now, as they forge a sustainable path beyond the pandemic, one of them is ready to double down, and the other is ready to walk away. Chef Russell Jackson was tired. When his New York City restaurant, Reverence, o...
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Philly Officials Now 'Strongly Recommend' Even Fully Vaccinated People Wear Masks Indoors
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The city health department stopped short of mandating masks indoors — but emphasized the importance of masking up to forestall another spike in COVID-19 cases On Thursday, July 22, Philadelphia officials announced that they now "strongly recommend" everyone — both unvaccinated and fully vaccinated people — wear masks indoors, a little over a month since all COVID-19 restrictions were lifted i...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Vanilla
Sophia Pappas
The world of vanilla products is as rich as it is potentially confusing. Here's how to navigate it. Vanilla, as a concept, suffers a bad rep: The word alone implies something safe at best, and boring at worst. Basic, basically. But vanilla as an ingredient is a wondrous thing, ambrosial, floral, warm, and sophisticated. In truth, the essence of vanilla is anything but plain.
"It's an essential ingredient, adding not just flavor, but al...
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Sun, Sand, and Spaghetti
For thousands of Dominicans in New York's Washington Heights, the shores of Lake Welch in Harriman State Park are for family, friends, and giant pots of empaguetadas Before sunrise on summer weekends across the Bronx and Washington Heights, Dominican families pack vans with folding chairs, coolers, and canopies in preparation for a day at New York's second-largest state park, Harriman, or Los Siete Lagos (the Seven Lakes), as it is often called. When the las...
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Special Space Boy Jeff Bezos Gives $100 Million to José Andrés and World Central Kitchen
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The donation equals about .04 percent of the Amazon billionaire's net worth On Tuesday, following a 10-minute trip to the edge of suborbital space on his privately-funded rocket ship, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that he's bestowing the "Courage and Civility Award" to chef Jose Andres and Van Jones, political commentator and founder of DreamCorps. The new prize "recognize[s] leaders who aim high, and who p...
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A Starter Guide to Buying and Storing Vinegar
From apple cider vinegar to white vinegar, here's what you need to know to stock your pantry In my decades of calling myself a serious home cook, of hanging out in the kitchen and structuring my weekends around ambitious recipes I call "Saturday cooking projects," there's one thing I love above everything else: vinegar.
There's nothing better than the acidic, tangy blast of vinegar, whether it's the basis for a vinaigrette I dreamt up for a salad wit...
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How a Master Chef Catches Thailand's Giant River Prawns for an Ancient Thai Dish
Chefs Chudaree Tam Debhakam and Prin Polsuk go night fishing for river prawns to make kanom jeen nam ya "River prawn is a very valuable ingredient for us Thai people," says Chudaree Tam Debhakam, chef and owner of Baan Tepa in Bangkok, Thailand. "I think it's one of the most expensive Thai ingredients." In her kitchen, Debhakam uses her world-renowned skills to craft dishes that honor traditional Thai ingredients.
Today, she heads to the Sam Khok distr...
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'Roadrunner' and the Dismal Search for the 'Real Bourdain'
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Why Morgan Neville's Anthony Bourdain documentary fails to close the gap between the on-camera Bourdain and the person who performed him An obscure, 43-year-old chef and author of minor crime novels is reborn, after a sudden and unexpected literary success, into a life of global fame and influence. A charmed life, cut short when he hanged himself in a hotel bathroom in Alsace 18 years later. This is the story of Roadrunner, the new document...
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Searching for Meaning in Nicolas Cage's Truffle Flick, 'Pig'
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The Michael Sarnoski film about a former chef searching for his truffle-hunting pig is tonally inconsistent and narratively incoherent The only thing shaved in Pig — which I'd call a Nicolas Cage vehicle, but vehicle to where? — are the black truffles buried deep in the Oregonian forest. Everyone else is hirsute; everything else hairy. This includes Rob, who we first meet munching dirt and slowly scampering through the forest. Played ...
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Gastropod Joins Eater
Hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
The popular podcast explores the science and history of food We're thrilled to announce Gastropod, the award-winning podcast exploring food topics through the lens of history and science, is joining Eater as a partner on August 3.
Launched in 2014 and hosted by journalists Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, Gastropod offers unparalleled, enterprising journalism, in-depth reporting, production value, and st...
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A Heated Discussion About 'Pig,' the Movie of the Summer
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Eight Eater editors debate and dissect the new Nicolas Cage film about a man's search for his beloved truffle pig If you have seen Pig — or even just the trailer for Pig — you, like me, might become obsessed with the idea of a movie that stars Nicolas Cage as a grizzly truffle forager, forced to confront the demons of his past life as a chef when someone steals his beloved truffle pig. It is a full-blown pigaresque, with the stops on ...
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Ben & Jerry's Will No Longer Be Sold in Israeli Settlements in Palestine
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"We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry's ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)," read a company statement After facing public pushback, Ben & Jerry's ice cream has announced it will no longer be selling its ice cream in Israeli settlements in Palestine. "We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry's ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Terri...
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How Frugé Aquafarms Produces Over One Million Pounds of Crawfish Each Year
Host Daniel Geneen learns about growing, harvesting, and eating crawfish from Louisiana farmer Mike Fruge About 40 years ago, rice farmers like Mike Fruge of Fruge Aquafarms and Cajun Crawfish figured out that the two year growing cycle of crawfish synced perfectly with the two year cycle of the rice crop. Now, rice fields are seeded with baby crawfish every other year, creating a new source of food and income for farmers. Host Daniel Geneen visited the farm in...
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All About 'Pig': the Nicolas Cage Movie About Truffles, Chefs, and a Stolen Pig
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Set in Portland, OR, 'Pig' hits theaters on July 16, 2021 It's not every year that the movie of the summer is a food movie, but Nicolas Cage has blessed us with Pig: the feature film debut from director Michael Sarnoski in which Cage plays a chef-turned-truffle-forage who has been living off-the-grid in the Oregon would until his truffle pig is rudely stolen from him. He returns to the Portland, Oregon dark, grizzly restaurant scene, and...
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Here's the Trailer for the Upcoming Julia Child Documentary 'Julia'
Created by the same directors behind 'RBG,' 'Julia' will be another glimpse into the life of the beloved cooking personality It's hard to understate the influence Julia Child has had on American cooking, between helping home chefs learn about French cuisine to being a trailblazer of food television. Now, from Betsy West and Julie Cohen, the directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary RBG, comes Julia, which aims to tell "the story of the legendary cookb...
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McDonald's Considers Radical Concepts Like Emergency Childcare to Entice Workers
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The service staffing crisis has some restaurants attempting extreme means to attract workers — you know, like the basic human rights that should have been there all along The reopening phase of the pandemic is long underway in most parts of the country, but fast-food operators are still struggling to find enough workers to staff their restaurants. In the face of a labor shortage — which is actually just a shortage of j...
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A Decadent Churro French Toast Recipe to End All French Toast Recipes
Dina Ávila
Grammy-winning singer Miguel and chef Jeremy Fall created this recipe as part of their series "Beats for Breakfast" The actress Nazanin Mandi was not overjoyed when her husband, the Grammy-winning singer Miguel, decided to turn their kitchen into a makeshift music studio. There was equipment everywhere, and not a lot of space left to, you know, cook. The de facto redesign, Miguel explains, came about after he decided to start intermittent fa...
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The Pig in 'Pig' Is Named Brandy, and Other Key Details from Nicolas Cage's GQ Interview
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5 important takeaways about the only film that exists for me, a normal person If you, like me, watched the trailer for Pig, the new Nicolas Cage movie and have so many questions — questions that go far beyond "Who has Nic Cage's pig?" — Gabriella Paiella's interview with the Hollywood legend in GQ is an absolute gift.
"I've been drawn to screenplays where I don't feel I have to act so much — that I have the life experience...
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Cape Cod Restaurant Closes to Give Workers a Break From Customer Abuse
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Brandi Felt Castellano, co-owner of Apt Cape Cod, told the New York Times that while customers have always been rude to service workers, people's post lockdown behavior 'far exceeds anything I've seen in my 20 years' in the business Over the past year and a half, restaurant workers have reported an uptick in harassment, abuse, and general unpleasantness from customers. In December, a study found a customers docked tips ...
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Forget Canning, and Get Yourself a Chinese Pickle Crock
The porcelain wonder uses a moat of saltwater to create a natural seal In the 1970s, archaeologists in China stumbled across the 2,000-year-old tomb of a noblewoman from the Han dynasty. Known as Lady Dai, she was surrounded by lavish clothes, jewelry, and the remnants of her last banquet. Among the haul she was taking into the afterlife was a collection of pickle jars and a thick manuscript of corresponding pickle recipes.
Sometimes mistaken for an urn, the Chines
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No-Recipe Recipes Aren't a Fad; They're as Old as Cooking Instruction Itself
Allie Sullberg
The earliest cookbooks were light on instruction and heavy on assumed knowledge — a style our recent, prescriptive recipe-obsessed food culture is now looping back to You don't need a recipe. Really, you don't.
So chastises the back cover of Sam Sifton's new book New York Times Cooking: No-Recipe Recipes, which, despite its own pretensions, is full of recipes. Here we have a delightful-looking Asparagus and Boursin Tart (send to ...
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Nicolas Cage Brings Home the Rave-Review Bacon in 'Pig'
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What the critics are saying about 'Pig,' the only movie I plan on discussing this summer Pig, this summer's Nic Cage vehicle, opens nationwide on July 16, and the reviews are starting to trickle in. By and large, the critics are loving this movie — particularly praising Cage's performance as a prominent Portland, OR chef who goes off the grid to live as a truffle forager and then returns to the city to search for his stolen truffl...
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How Top Banana Moves Over One Million Pounds of Bananas per Week
Watch the largest vendor of Dole bananas in the North East use high-tech processes and years of experience to sell bananas at peak ripeness Anyone who's ever watched a banana go from perfectly ripe to banana-bread-ready-brown in what seems like a matter of hours knows exactly how precarious the lifespan of the fruit can be. That's why those at Top Banana — the largest vendors of Dole bananas in the North East — have developed a complex system for ripening...
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How an SF Restaurant Can Turn a Profit — Even With 40 Percent Labor Costs
The kishek and cheese man'oushe at Reem's | Michelle K. Min
Breaking down the food, labor, and fixed costs of Reem's popular kishek and cheese man'oushe We often presume to understand restaurant economics because we know what a chicken breast costs at the supermarket. "I could make this dish at home for $5," goes the refrain. Could we? Here, Eater looks at all the costs in a popular restaurant dish to see what goes into it, and how much profit ...
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The Virtual Future of Restaurants
A spread from Guy Fieri's Flavortown Kitchen, a virtual brand from the celeb chef | Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images
What the rise of ghost kitchens and virtual brands means for restaurant owners, workers, and consumers Over the past year, Guy Fieri, George Lopez, Mariah Carey, Pauly D, Mario Lopez, and Youtube star MrBeast opened hundreds of restaurant businesses simultaneously. Leaning into the popularity of delivery apps and the excess capacity of ...
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New Eater Merch Is Here, for a Limited Time Only
A brand new drop, with just three classic items Eater merch is back, this time with a limited edition drop. Joining our collection of collegiate-themed items are three new products, all in iconic Eater red. Rep your restaurant obsession and your Eater city with any of these new shirts.
These items will be available for a limited time only — from now until August 11. So get your pre-orders in now! All orders will ship in August.
Head here to check out our...
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We Regret to Inform You That Van Leeuwen's Kraft Mac and Cheese Ice Cream Is Very Good
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It's not just nostalgia or the enduring power of that neon-orange cheese powder. This gimmick is actually delicious. Most of the time, gimmicky food mashups are the definition of disappointing. While the idea of candy-flavored cheese or ice cream infused with the flavors of an everything bagel might be compelling to some, most people are so put off by the concept of such a bizarre combination that the idea of eating something ...
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'He's Nicolas Fucking Cage': A Short Conversation with the Consulting Chef of 'Pig'
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Chef Gabriel Rucker of Le Pigeon in Portland talks about his time on set and teaching the Hollywood legend to cook pigeon the avant-garde French way The film Pig might be about Nicolas Cage's quest to find his missing truffle pig, but it was Cage's pigeon-basting technique that most concerned Gabriel Rucker. One of Portland's most prominent chefs, Rucker was a consultant on the film, which is set in both the Oregon ...
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A Blueberry-Glazed Cornbread Cake That Proves the Side Dish Can Be Dessert
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Like its cornbread inspiration, this cake is casual and familiar. But don't let its simplicity fool you. Picnics, for me, have historically meant the semiannual, church-wide affairs that took place at a suburban metro park in my hometown. The entire congregation from my Korean church, young and old, would set up camp in the grass and spend the day socializing and enjoying nature. Instead of cheese, charcuterie, or sandwiches, you'd find a ...
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Want to Start Collecting Vintage Pyrex? You've Got Competition.
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The timeless serving dishes are having a renaissance and devotees are willing to pay thousands of dollars for rare patterns and sets As pandemic restrictions that required mask-wearing and limited capacity for businesses of all kinds wound down over the past several months, I'd be lying if I said the first thing I wanted to do was go to a restaurant. Instead, I've been longing to spend my days safely wandering the dust-drap...
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Will Dr. Bronner's Chocolate Change My Life the Way Its Soap Did?
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The iconic multipurpose soap has had a cult following for decades, and now the brand is trying to make the chocolate industry more ethical It's time for Dr. Bronner's hive to rise up. This is our moment, we can now have our soap and… chocolate, too? In early August, the giant of natural soaps will release a line of chocolates that, the company hopes, will bring more equity and transparency to an industry that faces crises of both envir...
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Homemade Shrubs Are Your Gateway to a World of Sweet, Tangy Summer Drinking
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Throw your bruised berries into a vinegar bath, then reap the rewards Tangy, sweet, and explosively juicy, shrubs are a delicious shortcut to making summery cocktails at home. Drinkable vinegars flavored with fruit and sugar, they welcome experimentation: Toss in your bruised berries, your overripe peaches yearning to be used. In a few days, you'll be rewarded with the perfect mixer for seltzer, pet-nat, or your favorite booz...
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Eater Snags Six Nominations at Daytime and New York Emmys
Eater video looks to add to its three New York Emmy wins Eater received a total of six Emmy nominations for 2021, across the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards and the 64th Annual New York Emmy Awards, all of which were announced late June. Four of the six nominations are for Eater's award-winning video team, including the series Mise en Place in the category of Outstanding Culinary Series for Daytime and three nominations for the Best Long Form Informational/Instr...
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The Almost-Sacred Dance of Making Southern Mac and Cheese
In a world of blue box powdered cheese and breadcrumb-topped versions, my family's macaroni and cheese recipe endures In 2015, I left my hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to jumpstart my career, wring life of its meaning, and experience what the world had to offer outside of the Deep South. The most notable difference, excluding accents and geographically rooted slang, was the cuisine. While living in Boston, I grew to love dining on fresh catches of the day, follo...
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Why Dhamaka Is One of NYC's Most Exciting New Restaurants
Dishes like 16-layer goat neck biryani and aromatic goat testicle, kidney gurda kapoora have delighted critics and diners alike Chintan Pandya, chef and co-owner of New York City newcomer Dhamaka, usually starts his day at the butcher, bringing his haul — in today's case, of goat neck, liver, kidneys, and testicles — back to the Lower East Side restaurant. "[In the U.S.] it becomes a very novelty product when using kidney, liver, and testicles," he says...
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How to Pack Your Kitchen and Pantry for a Move
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Moving is a giant pain, especially when it comes to the kitchen. But it doesn't have to be. I've moved three times in the last eight years. Two of these moves were cross-country. All three of them were a pain in the ass, in large part because they meant moving my fully stocked kitchen. I cook a lot, and (pandemic notwithstanding) enjoy hosting dinner parties, which adds up to both a lot of tableware and a lot of stuff in my pantry, refriger...
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With Delivery Workers, Who's Really in Charge?
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Determining who controls the work of delivery drivers has major implications for the future of the business Third-party delivery apps depend on an entire gig workforce of drivers, bicyclists, and motorcyclists — the people on the go, handing you your food at your doorstep. More than one-third of U.S. workers are a part of the gig economy.
The major delivery apps often describe that workforce, their drivers and delivery workers, as partners....
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21 Questions to Ask When Interviewing for Restaurant and Hospitality Jobs
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In the midst of a widespread labor shortage, restaurant workers have an opportunity to advocate for themselves and learn more about where they want to work After more than a year of widespread uncertainty for the restaurant industry, the arrival of multiple COVID-19 vaccines has prompted local and city governments to begin the reopening process for in-person businesses. NYC has allowed full-capacity dining since May 19, one of the earlier citie
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This Summer, Learn to Make a Perfect Granita
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How to achieve fluffy, icy perfection, with some help from pastry chef Michelle Polzine Come summer, my freezer is stocked with pints of ice cream. While it almost always hits the spot, these days, I find myself craving a granita. Something about the idea of fluffy, crunchy pile of flavored ice feels particularly refreshing, more accommodating to a mid-day cool-down snack or an dessert.
Granita is t...
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