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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

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From salted egg yolks and chili crunch fusions to mushroom-infused teas and freeze-dried fruit powder garnishes, Kimpton’s in-house experts share the standout ingredients, menu items and techniques that will come to the table in 2025.

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

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Changing temperatures and weather patterns mean ingredients that were once common are now harder to come by , and sourcing ingredients from sustainable farms can often be more expensive. The numbers come from the 2022 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report of the vegan brand Beyond Meat , from which PLNT Burger gets its patties.

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

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“Community, environment. It’s part of my DNA. As a chef, I have a responsibility to do my best to create good environments for people, customers, and the community,” says Marnell-Suhanosky. When food waste goes to landfills, it creates methane , a powerful greenhouse gas. produces the equivalent annual emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants.

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An Eater’s Guide to Sri Lanka

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hadynyah/Getty Images A local food expert provides the ideal culinary tour of Sri Lanka, from the islands palm tree-lined beaches to its rolling highland tea plantations Floating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles. Travel around and youll be rewarded.

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

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The company currently offers five sustainably farmed, low-intervention wines that Olszewski has chosen to be widely pleasing. I got a full-ride scholarship to UMass Amherst, where I majored in sustainable agriculture and gender studies and minored in English literature. Only 30 percent of glass bottles are recycled in the U.S.,

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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With products now cleared for consumer sale in both the United States and Singapore, the cultivated meat industry is moving from proof of concept and early-stage R&D to a focus on demonstrating scalability, sustainable unit economics, and consumer and customer demand. The cultivated meat industry is entering its next chapter.

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What’s Next After Farm-to-Table?

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But for chefs looking to emphasize the latter, it still starts at the source. This story was produced in collaboration with Civil Eats. At the height of summer, chef Rob Rubba and his team at Oyster Oyster , a vegetable-first restaurant in Washington, D.C., are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. Take chocolate , for instance.