One menu item you may not have seen before? Sea moss. You can order sea moss smoothies, cereal bowls and ice cream bowls, as well as sea moss gels. Sea moss is known for its health benefits such as supporting gut and heart health, boosting immunity and controlling blood sugar. “The need grows greater and greater every year,” Jones told
Continue reading K-12 operators have come up with creative ways to fill in staffing gaps and make sure students keep getting fed. Photo: Shutterstock As K-12 nutrition teams continue to face labor challenges, operators have come up with ways to keep the meals coming even when short staffed. Here are four ways K-12 operators are working to combat labor shortages that were
Continue reading Featuring some of the most unique plant-based dishes in the country, Bib Gourmand Millennium leans into the natural from the decor to the menu. Chef-owner Eric Tucker’s rustic-chic boîte brings distinctive flavors to vegan cuisine that even the truest carnivore could be converted. Inspector notes: “Roasted pumpkin tamales with pumpkin seed pastor and cashew nut crema are knockouts, as are
Continue reading The British Kebab Awards, an annual event to celebrate local kebab restaurants across the United Kingdom, has added a vegan kebab category for the first time in its 10-year history. This year, the British Kebab Awards included the Best Vegan Kebab category to celebrate the growing appetite for plant-based kebabs. Sponsored by plant based meat brand Eatplanted, this year the new
Continue reading Legend has it that Chinese dumplings were first created not by a chef or a home cook, but by a pharmacologist and physician, called Zhang Zhongjian. During the Han Dynasty, which began in 206 BCE, one bitter winter led many villagers to develop frostbite injuries around their ears. Zhongjian noticed this, and in a bid to cure their ills, he
Continue reading Medina says in his new space he’ll roll out all the “meat” he’s been holding back on until now. Vegan menudo, vegan beef cheek, vegan tongue, beet chorizo — if he can get it to look like linked chorizo, that is — will all be on the menu. And he’s excited to show all the flavors and ingredients he feels
Continue reading Chef and entrepreneur Guy Vaknin appeared on reality cooking competition showHell’s Kitchenand investment reality showShark Tank. However, most know him for his creative vegan food as the chef and owner behind NYC’s popular fast-casual chain Beyond Sushi. This month, Vaknin is expanding his NYC restaurant empire with a new vegan Mediterranean brasserie concept called Anixi. The restaurant features dishes with
Continue reading Vegan menu fills a need Local interest is strong, as anyone who ever attended the special vegan events held occasionally at the former Roots Rochester bar in Rochester will confirm. “We’re filling a big need,” Herein said. “Vegans might be a small percentage of people, but there are also vegetarians and people with dairy allergies and egg allergies, and diabetes
Continue reading Back in 2013, after a long career in Sales and Special Events, I moved to San Miguel (I first came to Mexico in 1966 to study Spanish and returned, year after year, falling in love with the country, its people, and the food). That was the same year a travel magazine named San Miguel “Best Small City in the World”
Continue reading They invited Universal employees who came from diverse backgrounds into the test kitchen to give their opinions: Are the flavors good and true representations of the cuisine back in their native countries? Universal took it one step further, Martinez said. Some employees brought food back home “so that their mothers could weigh in on the dishes,” Martinez said. The testing
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