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Tell me about your agreement with L’Appart. Farm.One is working with L'Appart to plant and help maintain a new outdoor aromatic herb garden on their terrace at Brookfield Place. It's an intimate area...

“I didn’t want to look back on my life and think that the world offered so many opportunities and I didn’t take them,” she said, speaking with a level of maturity and decisiveness that makes you...

If you’re a fan of the Netflix series Chef’s Table, (if you’re reading this blog, I assume you must be) then you already know about restaurant D.O.M. You also know its chef Alex Atala — the bearded...

Then what is it that makes naan so distinct and delicious? Certainly, the chutneys, condiments, relishes and a good slathering of ghee (clarified butter) add to the appeal, but many would argue that...

Like many young, aspiring chefs of the time, I was inspired by La Pyramide, the mythic three-Michelin-star restaurant in Vienne, France, and of its formidable chef Fernand Point, who mentored a whole...

The United Nations Environment Programme “waste facts” include: In the United States, 30-40% of the food supply is wasted, equating to more than 20 pounds of food per person per month. Nationally...

Here's a look at their answers. (Top to bottom, left to right) Tom Kombiz-Voss, Dean of Hospitality Management: "Inspiring and training each student to reach his or her highest potential in the...

We work all day in a hydroponic garden, so we’re surrounded by beautiful, fresh, rare produce. We’re also lazy and hungry — half the time we end up eating at Hudson Eats in Brookfield Place, ICE's...

I drink a lot. As a beverage writer and educator, I like to think of myself as fairly knowledgeable when it comes to cocktails. And yet, after recently sitting in on ICE's "Cocktail Recipe Development...

Though stores and online catalogs are filled with hundreds of “must-have” kitchen gadgets, only some of them are actually worth it — others not so much. To help you cut through the clutter and find...

Herb Your Way to Healthy During the Holidays During my time as a cook, I had to show up to work no matter what. When the restaurant needed me, I had to be there — there was no concept of sick days...

While we swirled, sniffed, sipped, and nibbled, I gleaned some grape wisdom — about wine varieties and my own tastes. In the spirit of holiday giving, here are five surprising takeaways from my wine...