How to ferment almost anything
There’s a reason chef Cortney Burns of “A Living Larder” has a basement filled wall to wall with jars. The art of fermenting vegetables is as simple as soaking them in salt and water, or—another…
The Living Larder – the Joys of Fermentation
When Cortney Burns moved east from San Francisco to build a restaurant in the Massachusetts woods, she brought along the key building blocks of complex flavor: a pantry full of funky, fermenting things. The first…
By CHLOE, the vegan Shake Shack, receives $31 million investment to expand globally
By CHLOE, the New York City-based fast-casual vegan restaurant that opened in 2015 with a similar service model to Danny Meyer’s hit burger chain, recently received $31 million in funding from Bain Capital, Kitchen Fund,…
The plant based impossible burger now available at White Castle
When the Impossible Burger–a plant-based burger designed to sizzle, smell, taste, and bleed like beef–launched in July 2016, it was available first in Manhattan at Momofuku Nishi, a restaurant that also sells $39 strip steak…
Spring Rhubarb is here!
TODAY’S LESSON: Rhubarb loves the cool spring growing season that develops the stalks slowly and full of flavor. Today we will unlock the secrets to a perfect rhubarb pie. WHERE DOES RHUBARB COME FROM? The…
FOOD WASTE: WHICH FUTURE?
Have you ever wondered how much food is produced every year in the world? 4’000’000’000 tons. How much of this food is wasted? 1’300’000’000, 30%; ⅓ of the world’s food produced goes in the trash…
The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream
Late on a Thursday afternoon in early March, just off Brick Lane in the heart of London’s nightlife hotspot Shoreditch, 23-year-old Louisa Davidson is taking calls and co-ordinating cables and scaffolds, as shocking pink Vegan…
The World’s Most Sought-After Steak Is Being Sold in the U.S.
Dive deeper into the juicy, fat-streaked world of Wagyu beef, and you’ll find an even more prized and rarer (pun intended) variety: Sanuki, or olive Wagyu. RELATED A Wagyu Farmer’s Guide to the Best Beef…
What It Takes to Out-Sleuth Wine Fraud
By Lettie Teague For WSJ The first in a two-part series on wine fraud. A FEW WEEKS AGO the French police discovered a cache of fake Côtes du Rhône wine so large it would have…
Health Departments Continue to Sabotage Home Cooks Across the Country
Shelli Eng lives in Erie, Illinois, a village about 100 miles due west of Chicago. For years, Eng, known as the “Bread Lady,” has sold baked goods at a local farmers market and two other…