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☆ Insight: Italy is no country for young chefs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Antonella Cinelli | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

For the past year, the 25-year-old has cooked at Piccola Cucina, an Italian restaurant in Manhattan's glitzy SoHo district, home to designer boutiques and high-end art galleries. The current outflow of Italian chefs due to difficult conditions at home is not a new phenomenon. A peep into the kitchens of even the most traditional Italian restaurants shows the local dishes are often prepared by low-paid immigrants. Partly for this reason, young chefs in Italy take home half the salary of their peers in Britain while working longer hours, Mazzei said. British people have become knowledgeable about Italian food, even learning about regional differences, he said, so he preferred to hire Italian chefs to satisfy an increasingly demanding clientele.

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☆ I tried a $35 Wagyu beef sandwich at Harrods and it was as disappointing as it was expensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Harrods, London's upmarket department store, sells a Wagyu beef sandwich for £28 ($35.) Simply called the "Wagyu Steak Sandwich," the new addition to the menu at Harrods in Knightsbridge contains strips of Wagyu beef fillet along with accompanied by porcini and truffle butter, gold mustard mayo, large portobello mushrooms, arugula, and beer- braised onions. The Harrods deli counter where you can purchase the Wagyu sandwich. High-grade marbled Wagyu beef is a delicacy typically imported from Japan and can cost anywhere between $120 and $300 per pound. To its credit, and to be expected when it packs a whopping 1,040 calories, the Harrods sandwich was a generous size and I was definitely full by the end.

Persons: —, porcini, Polly Thompson, I've, I'd, Mark Field Organizations: Harrods, Business, Service, Qatari, Consulting Locations: Britain, Knightsbridge, mayo, portobello, Japan, Harrods, Hyde

☆ Italy is no country for young chefs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Antonella Cinelli | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Italy's food is famous the world over but many talented young chefs, hoping to make a career in their country, find themselves frustrated by low pay, lack of labour protection and scant prospects. The current outflow of Italian chefs due to difficult conditions at home is not a new phenomenon. A peep into the kitchens of even the most traditional Italian restaurants shows the local dishes are often prepared by low-paid immigrants. Partly for this reason, young chefs in Italy take home half the salary of their peers in Britain while working longer hours, Mazzei said. British people have become knowledgeable about Italian food, even learning about regional differences, he said, so he preferred to hire Italian chefs to satisfy an increasingly demanding clientele.

We're avid home cooks and experts, so we scoured the internet to find the absolute best Black Friday kitchen deals. You can save $40 at Amazon on the top-ranked pick from our guide to the best air fryers. The best Black Friday air fryer dealsAir fryers are some of the most heavily discounted countertop companions during Black Friday. The best Black Friday coffee maker dealsSome of the best coffee makers we've tested are on sale for Black Friday. The best Black Friday KitchenAid dealsThese stand mixers represent the best of the bunch we've tested in our guide to the best KitchenAid stand mixers.

Persons: we've, you've, fryer, you'll Organizations: Amazon, Air, Black, Williams Sonoma

☆ I answer the Butterball turkey hotline. I get lots of funny questions on Thanksgiving Day.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Phyllis Kramer is a Butterball Turkey Talk-Line expert based in Aurora, Illinois. AdvertisementI've been talking turkey on the Butterball Talk-Line for 22 years now. AdvertisementSome people assume my job must be easy, but they couldn't be more wrongKramer answers calls to the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line. AdvertisementOur average call lasts 3 minutes, and the most common question is how to thaw a frozen turkeyA herb- and citrus butter-roasted Butterball turkey. I always thaw turkey in the refrigerator.

Persons: Phyllis Kramer, She's, —, I've, Kramer, I'm, we're, we've, parsnip, it's, We'll Organizations: Service, Canadian, Foods, Butterball University Locations: Turkey, Aurora , Illinois, Butterball Turkey, Naperville , Illinois

☆ ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ Review: A Beautiful Collaboration
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Manohla Dargis | More About Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Frederick Wiseman’s transporting documentary “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,” centers on a dynasty of French chefs who live and work in a pastoral region in central France named Ouches, some 65 miles west of Lyon. The chef Daniel Boulud includes the Troisgros salmon recipe in several of his cookbooks. “Menus-Plaisirs” is Wiseman’s 44th documentary and the first that he’s made since “City Hall” (2020), which notionally focuses on the administration building for the city of Boston. (In between “City Hall” and “Menus-Plaisirs,” he made one of his rare forays into fiction, “A Couple,” about Sophia Tolstoy.) Wiseman directed, edited and served as one of the producers on “Menus-Plaisirs,” which runs a heroic four hours (about a half-hour shorter than “City Hall”!).

Persons: Frederick Wiseman’s, Les, Michel, who’s, Bois, Michel’s, Pierre, Jean, Daniel Boulud, he’s, notionally, ”, Sophia Tolstoy, Wiseman, Le Bois, Marie Organizations: Michelin, “, ” Locations: France, Lyon, Boston, “, Roanne

☆ No Thanks, Grandma, I’m Saving Room for Airplane Food
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Christine Chung | More About Christine Chung | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some of the 30 million passengers expected to fly domestically over this Thanksgiving holiday may be stunned by what’s available to eat and drink 30,000 feet up in the sky. There are onboard espresso martinis, dessert carts and even tapas service. Some passengers believe the complimentary meal and beverage service in the most expensive cabins is the best it’s ever been, both in breadth of options and in taste. From the standard pretzels and Biscoff cookies to pricey cheese plates and sandwiches, the chasm between premier and main cabins continues to widen. First, it was reduced seat space and extra fees.

Persons: ”, Bobby Laurie Locations: U.S

☆ I'm a single mom who quit social work to pursue copywriting. My business brought in 6 figures last year.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I started writing Amazon descriptions as a side hustleNo one ever goes into social care for the money. I realized just that if I could spend 10 hours a day writing Amazon descriptions, it would be more lucrative than social work. I quit my jobI left social work in September 2015. The moment he knew my background in social work, he felt comfortable. They take on most of our social media and blogging work, and I focus on ghostwriting and book consulting.

Persons: Catherine Nikkel, I've, copywriting, I'd, he'd, We'd Organizations: Business, Facebook Locations: Toronto, Canada

☆ I'm a trained chef working towards a hospitality career in Miami. Cooking is all about creating an experience — and faking it 'til you make it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Alyshia Hull | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Karen Rosenbloom is a trained chef who says culinary school was the best decision she's ever made. She's now studying journalism and has a goal to become a private chef who develops recipes. I applied for culinary school in 2018I was accepted and started in Johnson & Wales University's culinary arts program in Providence, Rhode Island, that August. AdvertisementI decided to try private chef workI found a private chef in the Miami area, and began to work under his mentorship in June 2020, which counted as my internship. This gave me an introduction to the world of being a private chef, and I loved it.

Persons: Karen Rosenbloom, she's, She's, —, I've, I'd, I'm, it's Organizations: Service, Food Network, Johnson & Wales, Brown University, Brown, Columbia University Locations: Miami, Johnson, Providence , Rhode Island

☆ Millennials and Gen Z are driving demand for experiences. It could be a great industry to stake your career on.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Cooks at restaurants are expected to increase 20% between 2022 and 2032. Employment is expected to grow from 1.36 million in 2022 to 1.64 million in 2032, which represents an over 20% increase. As of May 2022, restaurant cooks make about $34,000 a year, or $16.40 an hour. Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Nevada have the largest concentration of restaurant cooks, while the Northeast and West Coast have the highest average salaries. However, the number of fast food cooks is projected to fall by over 101,000 by 2032 as fast food establishments continue to reduce staff or close locations.

Persons: —, Disney, Bruce Grindy, Grindy, It's, there's Organizations: Service, Employment, Restaurant Industry, National Restaurant Association, Student, Entertainment, BLS Locations: Hawaii , Rhode Island, Nevada, Northeast, West Coast, United States

☆ How chefs feed 100,000 Michigan fans at America's biggest football stadium
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Korey Isbell | Dorian Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Adventures on Dublin’s Culinary Trail
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Tom Downey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Irish have helped perfect, perhaps even invent, the pub as we know it. Storied Dublin locales like Gravediggers and Mulligans keep that tradition alive. The Irish culinary legacy, on the other hand, is still being rediscovered and refined. Some talented foreign chefs have also made Dublin their home. These days, there’s a fine range of sophisticated, even surprising, Dublin food to complement all that Guinness, poitín (a traditional distilled spirit) and whiskey.

Persons: Patrick Guilbaud — Organizations: Dublin, Guinness Locations: Dublin, —

☆ Ticket prices are plunging ahead of Formula 1’s next race set on the Las Vegas Strip
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Ticket and hotel room prices are falling sharply in Las Vegas as the gambling mecca preps to host its first Formula 1 Grand Prix race in four decades next week. Tickets were priced at roughly $2,000 a year ago for the Las Vegas race. Still, in true Las Vegas fashion, some hotels are going all-out with F1-themed weekends packages. Las Vegas is the third US city to host an F1 race, after Miami and Austin. F1 claims that the race will generate $1.3 billion, making it the “single largest special event in Las Vegas history.”

Persons: fizzle, Max Verstappen, Brett Goldberg, TickPick, ” Goldberg, Goldberg, That’s, Heineken Silver, Bud, ” Organizations: New, New York CNN, Las, CNN, Caesars, Grands Prix, MGM Resorts, Bellagio, Heineken, Netflix Locations: New York, Las Vegas, Qatar, Miami, Vegas, Austin

☆ Cooks Beware: Olive Oil Is Getting a Lot More Expensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Yusuf Khan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

L’ALBI, Spain—Just off Central Park, chefs at one of New York’s hottest Italian restaurants are pondering how to handle surging prices for a vital ingredient: olive oil. Marea and other restaurants specializing in Mediterranean food are feeling the pinch as a drought in Spain, by far the world’s biggest producer, pushes up global prices. And with Americans pouring increasing quantities of olive oil onto their salads and into their frying pans in recent years, many households are likely to notice rising costs over time, too.

Persons: Spain — Locations: Spain

☆ Take a look inside the new Raffles hotel in London
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | Marylou Costa | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Fiona Harris Communications director, Raffles London"It's the magic combination: the building, the location and the name, Raffles," Fiona Harris, Raffles London's communications director, told CNBC Travel. All in, the hotel houses 120 suites and rooms, including five heritage suites in the former offices of political and military leaders, and eight corner suites named after notable women and female spies. Raffles London is home to 120 rooms and suites, including eight corner suites named after notable women and female spies. Saison, run by Argentine Michelin star chef Mauro Colagreco, is one of nine restaurants and three bars at Raffles London. London's new luxury waveA stay at Raffles London is not without a significant price tag.

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☆ Food-delivery startup Wonder Group gets $100 million investment from Nestle
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

It's also developed high-tech kitchen equipment to speed up and simplify cooking. Prior to Wonder, Lore founded and sold e-commerce startup Jet.com to Walmart for $3.3 billion in 2016. Food-delivery company Wonder Group has gotten a cash infusion from Nestle , as the startup looks to sell high-tech kitchen equipment and prepared ingredients to businesses such as hotels, hospitals and sports arenas. Some of those companies may also want Wonder's kitchen equipment, Lore said. The partnership will start with Nestle making pizza and pasta tailored for Wonder's kitchen equipment, along with selling the kitchen equipment to clients.

Persons: Bobby Flay, José, It's, Lore, Marc Lore, Melissa Henshaw, that's, Wonder, Andrés, Michael Symon, Uber, DoorDash Organizations: Walmart, Amazon, Nestle, CNBC, Kroger, Foods Locations: New Jersey, New York, New York , New Jersey, Connecticut

☆ How the Humble Sheet Cake Became Top Tier
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Martha Cheng | Sharon Radisch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Los Angeles-based baker Michelle Boulos can still picture the sheet cakes she ate as a child: slathered with bright white frosting, decorated with tiny plastic balloons. But the confections she makes and sells via her Instagram account No Good Cakes are something else entirely. On one recent creation, frills of buttercream surrounded an acid green ombré surface inspired by a chemical spill. Boulos, 34, started baking the fantastical cakes out of her home in 2022 after making one for a wedding. “I got bitten by the sheet cake bug,” she says.

Persons: Michelle Boulos, “, Lucie Franc de Ferriere, Rose Wilde, Red, ”, Julie Saha Locations: Los Angeles, Manhattan, Lucie, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Here's how Kurtz built up Mike's Hot Honey from just a hobby into a company poised to bring in more than $40 million over the next year. This might be the life for me'A college-aged Kurtz in Brazil, where he found the inspiration for Mike's Hot Honey. Some like it hotKurtz working at Paulie Gee's in August 2010 with bottle of Mike's Hot Honey in hand. "I'd be in there from midnight till six in the morning just bottling, capping and labeling bottles of Mike's Hot Honey." Over three funding rounds, Mike's Hot Honey raised $12 million.

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☆ How Chefs Eat With the Marathon in Mind
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Talya Minsberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Soon after Dave Beran finished the New York City Marathon in 2014, he made his way to one of the fanciest restaurants to Manhattan, Per Se. “I’m sure I looked like I was hit by a bus,” he said. He was shivering and had thrown away his hat midrace: “I just got mad at it, ‘Nothing matters. About 50,000 runners are expected to stream across the finish line of the New York City Marathon on Sunday, many of whom have been adhering to strict diets and navigating suboptimal gastrointestinal issues. But what happens when running is your passion and food — with its long hours and rich meals — is your job?

Persons: Dave Beran, “, Beran Organizations: New York City Marathon Locations: Manhattan, Santa Monica, Calif

The White House Historical Association hopes to provide answers to some of those questions when it opens The People’s House: A White House Experience, in the fall of 2024. The center will feature a large cutaway model of the White House with rooms that, with the help of technology, can morph into the Green Room, the Blue Room or the Red Room. People will also learn about the slave labor that went into building the White House. About 500,000 people visit the White House yearly, McLaurin said. The White House Historical Association was created in 1961 by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy to help preserve the museum quality of the interior of the White House and educate the public.

Persons: ” Stewart McLaurin, president’s décor, —, McLaurin, ”, you’re, Jill Biden, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, ” Biden, Jacqueline Kennedy Organizations: WASHINGTON, Historical Association, House, Pennsylvania, Associated Press, White, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “, White House Locations: Washington, White, housekeepers, New York

“After China's ban on Japanese seafood, we are seeing more customers buying not only Fukushima fish but also Japanese seafood in general to support the industry." Despite the wastewater discharges, auction prices at Fukushima fish markets have remained stable — or even occasionally higher than normal. While individual consumers favor ordering fish by mail and shopping at seafood markets, prefectural government cafeterias have started serving Fukushima seafood for lunch. In Kyoto, a group of world-renowned Japanese “Kaiseki” cuisine chefs, will develop menus that primarily use Fukushima fish starting early next year. “I wish I could sell more local fish,” Haga said.

Persons: Kazuto Harada, “, ”, “ I'm, it’s, Futoshi Kinoshita, Katsuya Goto, ” Goto, Yoshinori Tanaka, ” Tanaka, Haga, ” Haga Organizations: —, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Tokyo Electric Power Company, United States Embassy, TEPCO, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Japanese Culinary Academy Locations: IWAKI, Japan, Onahama, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tokyo, South Korea, Beijing, China, Kyoto, Toriyone, Asia, asia

☆ An Orange Cake From a Revolutionary Chef
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Lisa Donovan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

I was a baking-and-pastry devotee and did not yet have the experience of working among ornery savory chefs with their own idols and heroes. Ms. Lewis was as savory a chef as I had studied at that point, but I mostly focused on her pies, cakes and breads. Back then, I regretted when savory chefs commandeered the dessert menu. This is the trademark of pastry chefs of my generation. We have been brought up in both worlds, learning the rules and then adjusting to our moment and materials, as savory chefs do.

Persons: Sal, Aaron, Jesse, Pierre Hermé —, Hermé’s, Dorie Greenspan —, Claudia Fleming, Gina DePalma, Lindsey Shere, Elisabeth Prueitt, Edna Lewis, Lewis, Paul Bertolli’s, Panisse Organizations: Big Locations: Oakland, Calif

☆ I made Ina Garten's shepherd's pie, and the easy recipe made enough to feed a whole family and still have leftovers
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Erin Mcdowell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I tried making Ina Garten's recipe for shepherd's pie. The meal was easy to prepare and was large enough to feed a whole family. AdvertisementI'm an Irish-American, but I didn't grow up eating shepherd's pie. However, shepherd's pie has become a favorite in the US, as well. Her recipe calls for ingredients like carrots, celery, white button mushrooms, ground turkey, and homemade mashed potatoes.

Persons: Ina Garten's, —, Ina Garten Organizations: Service

☆ Why Adelaide Might Secretly Be Australia’s Coolest City, According to Insiders
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Emily Pennington | Photographs Sia Duff For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

THE CAPITAL of South Australia, Adelaide offers an almost utopian alternative to the typical urban sprawl. A moat of lush parklands surrounds a one-square-mile city center full of shops and restaurants. Beyond that, leafy suburbs give way to the Adelaide Hills, where koalas roam, and to the sea. Recently, transplant chefs from China and Vietnam have infused the petite city of just over a million people with diverse flavors. Best of all, it’s supremely easy to wander Adelaide by foot, stumbling upon discoveries while enjoying long, post-food-coma strolls.

Organizations: Adelaide Hills Locations: South Australia, Adelaide, Barossa, China, Vietnam

☆ Meet the 'queen of caviar' who supplies Britain’s royal family with the world's most expensive food
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

King's Fine FoodLaura King has run a caviar business for almost 20 years — even supplying Britain's royal family with the coveted foodstuff. Now, she's known as the "caviar queen," and her firm King's Fine Food imports hundreds of kilos of caviar into the U.K. every two to three weeks. Oscietra caviar is the most popular product sold by King's Fine Food. Laura King (left), founder of King's Fine Food, with her daughter Holly King, the company's sales director. "We're two women in business, probably the only two women in the caviar business almost in the world.

Persons: Laura King, King, John King, Holly —, —, Conran, Melba, Terence Conran, retails, …, You've, you'll, I've, King's, Holly King, Mason, Queen Elizabeth II, Holly, We've Organizations: King's, CNBC, Fine Food, Harrods, Cathay Pacific, Emirates . British Airways, Foods, John King Brain, Royal Locations: London, Dorchester, British, Iran, Russia, Belgium, China

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