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Brown University Celebrates New Culinary Partnership
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And as its frequent appearance on Best Campus Food lists attests, food is among the areas in which Brown has always shone. But it decided to up the ante even further as it recently welcomed Bon Appétit as its new food service partner.
Bon Appétiters Catch Pokémon Go Fever
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Millions are playing Pokémon Go out of childhood nostalgia or simply interest, and Bon Appétiters across the country have joined in on the fun.
Four Bon Appétit Schools Make Princeton Review’s Best Campus Food List
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Congratulations to our teams at St. Olaf College (#5), Washington University in St. Louis (#9), Seattle University (#19), and Goucher College (#20)!
Pleasing Vegans — and Fighting Food Waste — with Aquafaba
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Creating vegan baked goods that are as light, fluffy, and flaky as the buttery and eggy originals has always been a bit of a challenge, but help is here in a very surprising form — chickpea water.
Committed to Clarity: How I Became Dedicated to Reforming Our Food System
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My journey into food activism, from fish sticks and hot dish to Hmong farmers and the Bon Appétit Fellows program.
Pedaling Back to Peace Coffee
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Peace Coffee is a Fair Trade, sustainably grown and distributed coffee company — and a staple of Twin Cities coffee culture. I visited Peace Coffee on my own when I first began my fellowship, and I was thrilled to bring a group of students from my alma mater, Macalester College, along for another tour this past summer — via bike! Minneapolis is a great place to live in so many ways. One that’s dear to me is its “bike highway, the Midtown Greenway. This bike and pedestrian highway was conceptualized pre-2000, and was built on the Midtown Greenway Corridor — a section of land previously used as a railway. About half of our Macalester group biked with me via the Greenway, and the other half of the group took public transit, which was generously subsidized by the Sustainability Office during their appointed […]
Building a Better Burger for the James Beard Foundation’s Blended Burger Project
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Although your typical burger generally doesn’t conjure up images of wellness and sustainability, the Blended Burger Project is a movement to change that by making burgers more healthful for eaters and better for the environment.
No Free Lunch: What “Gestation-Crate-Free” Pork Actually Means
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“Gestation crate free” means no use of gestation crates, right? To the large pork producers, apparently not. Here’s how I wound up in a hog barn in Pennsylvania.
130 Chefs + 300 Miles + 3 Days = Over $1 Million to Fight Child Hunger
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We did it! Traci, Tessa, Kristi, and I biked from Carmel to Santa Barbara to raise funds for No Kid Hungry through Chefs Cycle. What an incredible experience. Not to be missed, never to be forgotten.