Bon Appétit Management Company

We checked in with CheFarmer Matthew Raiford about what it means to observe Juneteenth.

This LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Bon Appetit is excited to be partnering with the James Beard-award winning Raghavan Iyer, who resides with his partner Terry in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Long known as an expert on Indian cuisine, Raghavan has led trainings for Bon Appétit teams across the country, providing instruction in the fundamentals of curries, baking with tandoor ovens, and more.

We’re thrilled to be partnering with renowned Indian chef Raghavan Iyer for this year’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month celebration.  

This April, the Bon Appétit team at Whitman College collaborated with Whitman graduate Roger Amerman (Choctaw) to create menus to complement programming taking place at the college’s long tent, a traditional structure of the tribal peoples of the Inland Northwest/Columbia River Plateau.

As part of Washington University in St. Louis’ Earth Week celebration, Professor Braude and Bon Appétit Executive Chef Patrick McElroy, who leads WUSTL Dining’s culinary team,teamed up to lead a foraging workshop and edible campus tour.

The Bon Appétit team at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL Dining) has developed an innovative partnership with Propel Kitchens, a nonprofit with a mission to utilize nutrition, food industry training and education initiatives as tools to equip and enable St. Louis residents and communities to combat persistent economic and health inequities. Learn how this growing collaboration between WUSTL Dining and Propel Kitchens is providing opportunities for St. Louis residents while bringing healthy scratch-cooked food to students.

We’re partnering with James Beard-award winning chef, educator, and author Andrea Nguyen during this year’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Midwest Fellow Elise Kulers tells her story of diving head-first into food systems.

During this year’s Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting and celebrating the women-owned Farm to Fork vendors who supply our teams and the communities they serve. 

While the holiday is centered on China’s traditional lunisolar calendar, which is tied to the autumn harvest and end of the agricultural growing season, Lunar New Year celebrations are highly country- and culture-specific. This year we’re delving into the unique Lunar New Year celebrations that occur in China, Vietnam, and South Korea. Read on to learn more!