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“Why are restaurant kitchens, especially high-end kitchens, so persistently male, and why are they so inhospitable to women who seek to join their ranks? Behind the history of all-male brigades is an effort to distance restaurant cooking from home cooking, the result of a phenomenon some sociologists call ‘precarious masculinity.'”
Head on over to Broadway and Cambie where the City of Vancouver is requesting residents’ input for preventing coffee cups and other recyclables from heading to the landfill.
Looking for ways to reduce food waste at home? Food Republic shares a few pasta recipes that make great use of food scraps.
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“In Toronto, two apps by the name of Feedback and Flashfood aim to give consumers access to food that would otherwise be thrown out—like UberEATS meets dumpster diving—by allowing restaurants and grocery stores, respectively, to list foods that they’re about to pitch at steep discounts.”
Worldwide demand for butter has caused a shortage in the motherland and Paris is none too pleased.
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Chipotle’s CEO stepped down this past week. I suppose that’s what happens when your restaurant chain causes widespread E. coli and norovirus outbreaks.
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Your link to an article about a person who claims to be a waiter, and works in a restaurant that people do not really go to to eat in, is a sad story of how to serve wine if you do not know how to, and just furthers the sad generalization that servers are predatory. There is so much about that article that is wrong. Frankly, I sell things that are better, not more expensive. Sometimes we even do not give them what they want, but what they need. It may be a cautionary tale for guests, but it really just exposes a lousy server and his modus operandi.
Agreed, Jahvay, and good on you for picking up on it. Sometimes I drop a link into Talia’s column if I think it’ll spark some conversation. This was one of those times. I know the waiter in question (the type, I mean), and he’s a bastard. I believe it’s important that attention is occasionally drawn to them, not only as a gut-check to the floor side of the industry (and the management thereof) but also so that diners are reminded that they’re still out there!