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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

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Chef-owner Colleen Marnell-Suhanosky opened the restaurant in 2013 after working for renowned Boston chef Lydia Shire and at various East Coast restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern in New York City. Community, environment. It’s part of my DNA. When food waste goes to landfills, it creates methane , a powerful greenhouse gas.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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I have been fortunate to work with Sleepy Bee Cafe since its founding in 2013. Read any article enumerating the current or emerging trends in restaurants and retail and you will see ideas of health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and brand authenticity coming to the fore.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

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Over the next decade, new cafes, restaurants, and housing developments owned by outsiders replaced many resident-owned properties and abandoned lots. Inocencio Carbajal opened his acclaimed taqueria, Carnitas Uruapan, on West 18th Street in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood in 1975. But the Pilsen around it is changing again.

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

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Dash From the Past: A Decade Delivered In 2013, things started off small, with a simple idea. Dash From the Past: A Decade Delivered In 2013, things started off small, with a simple idea. Restaurant industry insiders offer their insights on F&B trends we can expect to see in 2024.

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Bon Appétit Announces Dawn Davis, Publishing Heavyweight, as New Editor-in-Chief

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Davis, a prolific executive in the publishing industry, and one of few Black executives at a major publishing house, will join the publication on November 2, CNN Business reports. In her role at Simon & Schuster, Davis launched Inkwell Book Club, a national online book club celebrating Black authors.

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The Great Birria Boom

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How two Mexican-American birrieros made the beloved dish a sensation in America In 2005, two Mexican-American teenagers from LA met at the fair in Coatzingo, Puebla, during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, a time when countless Mexican-American families head back to their family’s hometowns all over Mexico to visit relatives.

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The Internet’s Most Incredible Collection of Food History Has Been Saved

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But I noticed that around 2013, the timeline mysteriously stopped. An obsessively catalogued, exhaustively comprehensive resource on the history of food, the Food Timeline is a lo-fi website free from advertising, where anyone can learn about the origins of what we eat from 17,000 B.C. Want to know about how marshmallows came to be?

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