Beat Bobby Flay? No problem — at least if you’re Vuong Loc, executive chef of SODO Kitchen at Starbucks headquarters in Seattle, who also manages to find time to run the restaurants Pomerol and ChinaPie.
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Chef Wars Still Raging at Genentech
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For the fourth consecutive year, Genentech chefs went to war…with each other. The 2017 edition of Chef Wars presented a cutthroat culinary competition among 18 chefs from the South San Francisco cafés split into three teams.
St. Olaf Honored Once Again for Best Campus Food
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For the third consecutive year, the Bon Appétit team at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, was invited to celebrate its high ranking (number 5 this time!) at the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts
A Family of Orchardists Grows in Hood River, OR
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When Sam Asai walks through his orchard, he is treading in the footsteps of two generations that came before him. His family has been farming the same land for more than a century and currently sells some of their fruit to Bon Appétit
Two Days in the Life of a Fellow
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As a Bon Appétit Fellow, Claire Kelloway regularly finds herself in uncharted territory, meeting new people and seeing new places. Over two days, she met a wide swath of Otterbein University’s kind campus community.
Chef Wars Still Raging at B35 in South San Francisco
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For the fourth consecutive year, Bon Appétit chefs went to war…with each other. The 2017 edition of Chef Wars presented a cutthroat culinary competition among 18 chefs.
Visiting DePauw’s Local Growers
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Fellow Amanda Wareham visits DePauw University’s on-site campus farm and Farm to Fork vendor Ponderosa Aqua Farm
St. Olaf College Delights in “Beauty and the Beast” Feast
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Pastry Chef Richard Hays and his Bon Appétit colleagues at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, had some extra whimsical fun hosting a Beauty and the Beast–themed night in Stav Hall just prior to the release of the latest Disney adaptation.
Oberlin Students Make Field Trip to Field-Less Tyler Farm
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Roughly 15 students joined to see Tyler’s greenhouse and ask questions about hydroponics and the greens they eat at Oberlin.
Regis Wins Chili Award at Local Benefit
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Besting the competition at any chili cook-off feels great, but when the event benefits a pediatric cancer foundation, participation is its own reward.