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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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.… 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… 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… THE 2019 JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEES