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Just after the 2016 election, as the reality of the impending Trump presidency began to set in, groups of people gathered to ask themselves what happened. They wondered, and worried, about how the new administration would threaten their communities and values. And then, they mobilized. This sequence of events wasn’t limited to activists. Across industries, people… The Revolution Will Be Tableside Chefs are turning to the pop-up dinner series to spotlight personal causes, raise money, and provide space for marginalized communities

On a busy Friday night during the 2018 holiday season at the San Francisco restaurant Frances, chef and owner Melissa Perello faced a potential disaster. A dishwasher hadn’t shown up for work, and she was already down a person in the kitchen. “I got on the Pared app,” she recalls. “And 35 minutes later, a… Restaurants Are Using an App to Staff Their Kitchens

There was a moment, about 20 years ago, when farmers thought that they’d finally defeated weeds forever. Biotech companies had given them a new weapon: genetically engineered crops that could tolerate doses of the herbicide glyphosate, also known by its trade name, Roundup. Farmers could spray this chemical right over their crops, eliminate the weeds,… As Weeds Outsmart The Latest Weedkillers, Farmers Are Running Out Of Easy Options

BEIJING (Reuters) – Up to 200 million pigs could be culled or die from being infected as African swine fever spreads through China, Rabobank said, by far the highest such forecast yet and underscoring the gravity of the epidemic in the world’s top pork producer.  Such a number would mark a huge chunk of the… Up to 200 million pigs to be culled or die from swine fever in China: Rabobank

By Lydia Mulvany While the world’s No. 1 weedkiller has been losing in court of late, it’s still the big winner in the agricultural world. No matter what happens with the 11,000-plus lawsuits plaintiffs have filed alleging the chemical in Roundup caused them cancer, farmers around the world are still going to keep using it,… Roundup Is Losing in Court But Farms Aren’t About to Give It Up

Scott Chang-Fleeman was in his second year of apprenticing at the farm and garden program at the University of California Santa Cruz when he began a project growing Chinese vegetables. Having grown up in West Los Angeles as a biracial, third-generation Chinese American, he didn’t know a lot about farming, nor did he have a strong… Bok Choy Isn’t ‘Exotic’ A young generation of Asian-American farmers is reclaiming Asian vegetables — and in the process, their own culinary heritage

A better basil exists, but it’s being grown in an environment that resembles something more likely to show up on an episode of Star Trek than in any backyard garden. The team of MIT scientists behind it are calling their process “cyber agriculture,” a method of growing plants in shipping containers retrofitted with lots of high-tech gear… Scientists made better-tasting basil through “cyber farming”

The FDA won’t approve of this year’s hot food trend. The National Restaurant Association and the American Culinary Federation surveyed 650 professional chefs about the top culinary and restaurant concepts for 2019. It found that 3 in 4 chefs said CBD- and cannabis-infused food would be a hot trend this year. Of course, chefs’ interest in cannabis… Chefs pick CBD- and cannabis-infused food as this year’s hot trend at restaurants

Veggie burgers are for the chop, a Brussels committee has decreed, to be replaced by the less palatable-sounding “veggie discs”. And it won’t be just bean or mushroom burgers condemned to the food bin of history. Vegan sausages, tofu steaks and soya escalopes could all be approaching their ultimate best-before date, after a vote in the… Veggie discs’ to replace veggie burgers in EU crackdown on food labels

It’s been said that Bob Weir’s eyes are a vast ocean of wisdom. Perhaps mushrooms are the way in which the legend developed that vast well of Earthly intellect. By Daniel J. Levitin. Bob Weir was a founding member of legendary rock band the Grateful Dead. I ran into Bob the other night at an… What It Was Like Doing Mushrooms With Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir

At a ceremony at Hugo’s by JBF Award winner Hugo Ortega in Houston, we announced the 2019 James Beard Award nominees in our Restaurant and Chef, Media, and Restaurant Design categories. See the full list below!  The 2019 James Beard Awards Gala will take place on Monday, May 6, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The 2019… THE 2019 JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEES

The creation of good cheese involves a complex dance between milk and bacteria. In a quite literal sense, playing the right tune while this dance unfolds changes the final product’s taste, a new study shows. Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani at Reuters report that hip-hop, for example, gave the cheese an especially funky flavor, while cheese that… Scientists Played Music to Cheese as It Aged. Hip-Hop Produced the Funkiest Flavor