Archive for January, 2008

Cooking up a Story: Terroir01.09.08

A short (4.5-minute) video featuring Stu Stein of Terroir (Portland, OR) is found at Cooking Up a Story. Stein also has a cookbook (now out of print, but apparently available through Terroir), which also has a website. Stein is also interviewed at Global Chefs.

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15+5 Green Chefs, 200701.08.08

The list compiled at grist.org in July 2007 includes:

Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.
Dan Barber, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, N.Y., U.S.
Alain Passard, L’Arpège, Paris, France
Fergus Henderson, St. John Restaurant, London, U.K.
Chris Cosentino, Incanto, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.
Jamie Oliver, Fifteen, London, U.K.
Andrea Reusing, Lantern, Chapel Hill, N.C., U.S.
Corrado Assenza, Caffé Sicilia, Noto, Sicily, Italy
Tod Murphy, Farmers Diner, Quechee, Vt., U.S.
Ted Walter, Passion Fish, Pacific Grove, Calif., U.S.
Paulo Martins, Lá em Casa, Belém, Brazil
David Kinch, Manresa, Los Gatos, Calif., U.S.
Ferran Adrià, El Bulli, Roses, Spain
Peter Hoffman, Savoy, New York, N.Y., U.S.
Mari Fujii, Kamakura, Japan

Runners-up:
Frank Stitt, Highlands Bar & Grill, Birmingham, Ala., U.S.
Michel Nischan, Dressing Room, Westport, Conn., U.S.
Tory Miller, L’Etoile, Madison, Wis., U.S.
Christine Kim, Green Zebra, Chicago, Ill., U.S.
Michel Bras, Restaurant Bras, Laguiole, France

… and many, many more included in the comments there.

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Turmeric and ginger to fight cancer01.08.08

From Planet Green (Discovery Communications), we find Cook with Foods that Fight Cancer: Turmeric And Ginger.

The post at Planet Green is essentially a recipe review from Cooking with Foods That Fight Cancer [and this post is essentially a test for Amazon links]

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Welcome to Restaurant Reformer01.08.08

Restaurant reformer launched in early 2008 to collect information on sustainable business practices relevant to the restaurant industry. Tips and suggestions are always encouraged. Guest bloggers will probably appear from time to time.

This site is about discovering, collecting and discussing approaches to improve the long-term sustainability of a vast industry that includes everything from the corner deli to the cookie-cutter fast-food operation to the finest dining locations in the world. There’s a lot of turf to cover.

The restaurant industry is one of the most heavily-regulated industries around (at least in some countries), and as such, there may be technologies, mechanisms, or ideas that are simply impossible to implement within the regulatory regime, even if their economic merits are obvious. We pass no judgment with regard to the application of anything discussed on this site – we merely hope to illuminate some options. We hope that in time, those that are economically feasible will appear in the real world, and that the regulations will adapt to accommodate new options in time. Do what you can, with what you have…

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