May 27th, 2008
Oy! The smells, the excessive eating, the clink of empty beer bottles - the joys of Memorial Day! From food to friends to every BBQ scent imaginable, it’s almost like you need a holiday after the holiday, just to recover! Perhaps I’ll be ready and recovered by the time July 4th rolls around.
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May 12th, 2008
Juliette Rossant of Superchefblog.com posted this week about the recent bruhaha surrounding celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay. Apparently, Ramsay is making a huff about restaurants that utilize non-local produce, relying mainly on foodstuffs carted in from all over the world. In fact, he suggested that restaurants should be fined for their national and international ingredients.
In this […]
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April 12th, 2008
Kudos to Parducci Wine Cellars this week! It was recently announced by company officials that the nation’s first carbon neutral winery had completely converted company operations to solar and wind power. According to Restaurant News Resource, the company’s energy change equals an annual positive environmental impact equivalent to removing 172 cars from the road for […]
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March 24th, 2008
Last week, hotel chain Scandic, operator of 130 hotels across Europe, announced they would stop selling bottled water in their restaurants and conferences. According to this article at Restaurant News the company estimates a cut to their fossil carbon dioxide emissions by whopping 160 tons a year!
Instead of bottled water, Scandic will now be […]
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