NHS Western Isles says it may have to provide ready meals for patients, due to chronic shortages of kitchen staff at an island hospital. The health board said it had advertised three catering jobs at Uist and Barra Hospital 20 times in the past four months without any success. The vacancy rate in the hospital’s catering department is at 46%
Continue reading Elementary students in the Cambridge School District are shown how to make recipes by a chef, and then they turn around and become the chefs as high school freshmen. The Chef in the Classroom program brings in a chef to demonstrate for the young students how to make foods that are mostly tied to other lessons they are learning. Then
Continue reading Zena Martinez, a food-program specialist with the Glendale Union High School District in Glendale, Arizona, calls the spicy chicken patty she serves for lunch the “bane of her existence.” The students love it, and, yes, it meets U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutritional standards, but she is tired of serving a heavily processed sandwich that comes frozen and in bulk
Continue reading Chef Peter Tsui first discovered tempeh more than 25 years ago and has been hooked on it ever since. Photo: Edmond So Hong Kong chef Peter Tsui Kan-chiu is showing no signs of slowing down in his mission to make the public familiar with tempeh, a traditional Indonesian food made from fermented soybeans. Ever since he was introduced to the
Continue reading CHARLOTTE — Dressed in a short-sleeved chef’s shirt and black-and-white checkered chef pants, Yadiska van Putten puts a black nitrile glove on each hand as she begins her morning shift as a Level 2 prep and station cook in the kitchen of Gallery Restaurant at the Ballantyne Hotel in Charlotte. The hood vent and convection oven rumble behind her as
Continue reading Summertime is coming, and that means ribs. Sweet and spicy, fall-off-the-bone, savory,meaty, delicious ribs. And while you may already have your grilled or baked ribs mastered, we bet you haven’t yet tried sous vide ribs. CONTENTS Before you roll your eyes at the idea of something as primitive and macho as ribs being prepared in something as modern and geeky
Continue reading Two best friends who met through vegan activism have launched a new menu after taking over a Lincoln restaurant. Melanie StJohn-Howe, 29, has been friends with Joanna Farr for five years. Mel used to work at the restaurant under previous owners Garry and Tracey Goddard, who ran the restaurant on Clasketgate from 2015 before moving on. Jo is a housing
Continue reading On Thursday, in the ‘Pairing with Chefs’ challenge, home cooks will cooperate with sous chefs to celebrate Holi in a new way! Home cook Shanta’s satvik cuisine left theMasterChefJudge Ranveer Brar in tears when he tasted the dishes prepared. He couldn’t hold back his emotions when he ate Chandrakala. Talking about his experience exclusively with ETimes TV Ranveer said, “At
Continue reading By Isa Chandra Moskowitz Vegan chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz is back with yet another stunning vegan cookbook, and this one is all about making, preparing, and cooking vegan meats. Recipes like Smoked Beet Cuban Sandwiches and Buttermylk Fried Chick’n are packed with flavor and made with ingredients that don’t harm animals. Read more..
Continue reading The annual Devour Culinary Classic tasting event and competition returned to Phoenix this year after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Tickets went on sale on Nov. 5 and were sold out by Nov. 13, a testament to the event’s popularity. Devour took place at Desert Botanical Garden on Feb. 25 and 26, when a panel of judges each
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