As our 2025 partner for LGBTQ+ Pride Month, we had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Von Diaz, a storyteller, writer, and documentarian whose work explores the intersection of food and culture.
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Von Diaz Celebrates Island Cooking with Resilient Recipes
We are thrilled for the chance to highlight a collection of recipes published by Von Diaz from two of her recent cookbooks, Islas: A Celebration of Tropical Cooking, and as a contributor to Tasty Pride.
Introducing our 2025 LGBTQ+ Pride Partner, Von Diaz
This LGBTQ+ Pride Month, we are delighted for the opportunity to partner with Von Diaz, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, food historian, and cookbook author.
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Bon Appétit Management Company is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, museums, and other specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we operate more than 1,000 cafés in 33 states. Our chefs cook from scratch, including sauces, stocks, and soups. Widely recognized as a pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, we are proud to be the first food service company to:
Directly support small, local farms- Strive to serve only sustainable seafood
- Address antibiotics overuse in our meat supply
- Switch to cage-free eggs, both shell and precracked/liquid
- Tackle food’s role in climate change
- Advocate for farmworkers’ rights
- Commit to pork raised without gestation crates
- Switch to third-party verified humanely raised ground beef
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Our teams celebrated Pride Month with colorful foods and powerful storytelling thanks to Von Diaz, ...
Our teams celebrated Pride Month with colorful foods and powerful storytelling thanks to Von Diaz, an LGBTQ+ cookbook author who blends her heritage with heart.
At @bonappetitwhitman, guests could join the Pride Month book club to try out Von Diaz's Lemongrass Adobo Grilled Chicken with Pineapple, which is from her cookbook "Islas: A Celebration of Tropical Cooking."
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It's Healthy Kids summer! 🗣️
Our @bonappetitusf team hosted a local SF summer camp for a garden scavenger hunt (thanks to @usfgarden!), hands-on knife skills session, and DIY vegetable skewers!
#HealthyKids #LoveBonAppetit #FoodEducation #FoodLiteracy #KidsInTheKitchen
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The hyperlocal farm that helps define the dining experience at Stem is curated and maintained by longtime partner Farmscape. 🙏
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We’re always looking for great people to join our teams! If you:
- Get excited when fresh, local produce arrives on your loading dock
- Enjoy creating all-new dishes from scratch
- Love interacting with people through delicious and nutritious food
- Thrive when part of a close-knit team that takes your and others’ safety seriously
- Enjoy helping people reach their full potential, nourishing them through at-work learning opportunities
Then you may be a fit for us!