Faith Hope Consolo is moderating a year-end panel at the New York National Conference of the The International Council of Shopping Centers on December 3rd, 2012, from 4:00 to 5:30. A cocktail reception will be followed by a discussion of trends and plans by Randy Garutti of Shake Shack, Michael Stillman of Fourth Wall Restaurants, Doug Griebel of Rosa Mexicano, and others.
See the invitation here.
Thinking of of learning some new skills and getting some fresh culinary inspiration?
Haven’s Kitchen has just added January and February classes to their calendar.
You may also call 212.929.7900 or email classes@havenskitchen.com to register.
Pinterest is now corporate friendly, opening the social media pinboard to business accounts and providing tracking tools. With this new formal opening to businesses, along with it comes rules, tools, and widgets.
Whole Foods is often noted as leading the pack of pinners in terms of quality and quantity.
Is your business pinning yet? If so, we’d love to see the boards.
Two of our nation’s premier cultural institutions are turning the spotlight on food: growing it and the industry surrounding it. Both have opened this week.
The American Museum of Natural History has opened “Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture,” covering the growth, trade, transport, cooking, tasting and wasting of food from prehistoric times to the modern era. It’s a largely interactive exhibit, with food demos and a scheduled tasting series as well.
The Smithsonian Institution has opened “Food: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000,” which explores our diversity of food and plentitude of it. Changes in the cooking and eating landscape are covered, as well as paradigm shifts that have come with new technologies, influential people, and broad shifts in social and cultural life.
If you’re celebrating the holiday, it’s unlikely that you’re still stumped as to what to make for Thanksgiving, but The New York Times has created a clever menu generator for any style of cook.
Visit the Thanksgivingerator.
If the menu’s all planned out and you need help with the finer points, you can reach out to their Thanksgiving Help Line.
We hope you have a wonderful and delicious Thanksgiving.
George Embiricos from Food Republic reports on The Bon Appétit Do-Your-Part Dinner Series: Taking place in New York City on December 6 and 7, the two separate dinners will feature some of the nation’s top chefs and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York, raising money for Hurricane Sandy relief.
The first night features chefs Sean Brock(Husk), April Bloomfield (The Spotted Pig, The Breslin in NYC) and Daniel Humm (Eleven Madison Park, NoMad), among others. The second dinner includes New Orleans chef John Besh, Danny Bowien (Mission Chinese Food),Dan Kluger (ABC Kitchen), Naomi Pomeroy (Beast) and Andy Ricker (Pok Pok). Brooklyn’s Vine Wine will provide libations for the wine pairings and there will be coffee from Stumptown. Both dinners are at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $300 for each night and can be purchased online at citygritnyc.com.
Portola Coffee Lab is launching Seventh Tea Bar in early December. Named for the Chinese belief that tea is the seventh of seven necessities, a new concept has been developed by Jeff and Christa Duggan, roasters who opened their craft coffee bar Portola last year in Costa Mesa, California.
Seventh Tea Bar will be located next to their main location.
For the full story click here.
Major snack-chocolate maker Mondelez has unveiled “Cocoa Life” – the company’s largest, most comprehensive cacao sustainability effort to date. As the world’s largest chocolate company, it will invest $400 million over the next ten years to improve the livelihoods and living conditions of more 200,000 cacao farmers and about one million people in cacao farming communities. Cocoa Life will bring a $100 million new investment to Cote d’Ivoire — the world’s largest cacao producing country — to help 75,000 farmers double their productivity.
Cocoa Life will collaborate with governments, civil society and suppliers with a mission to transform the cacao supply chain. The company works with third party experts such the United Nations Development Program, World Wildlife Fund and Anti-Slavery International to develop a robust set of principles for success and ways to measure progress.
Cocoa Life is based on Mondelez International’s Cadbury Cocoa Partnership in Ghana, India and the Dominican Republic. In Ghana, the Partnership has helped create a 20 percent increase in cocoa yields, a 200 percent increase in household incomes and an 80 percent increase in government-backed development projects in the first phases of the project between 2009-2011. The company continues to expand its reach to more communities in Ghana and extended the partnership to the Dominican Republic in 2011. In India, the company has been working directly with cacao farmers for 50 years.
Urbanspoon, the online local restaurant guide, announced international expansion yesterday. They are partnering with online reservation services Dimmi and Livebookings. Now, Urbanspoon diners worldwide will have the ability to book reservations at nearly 7,000 restaurants with the addition of Livebookings and Dimmi reservation inventory. In the US alone, Urbanspoon is now seating over 2 million US diners per month, a number that has doubled in the last 6 months.
“Our goal is to give diners the best tools along every step of their dining experience, from finding the right restaurant, to making a reservation and giving feedback on their meal,” said Kara Nortman, Senior Vice President, Consumer Businesses, CityGrid. “Partnering with other great companies, like Dimmi and Livebookings, extends our reservations coverage to millions of Urbanspoon diners internationally.”
“Partnering with Urbanspoon highlights our commitment to provide our restaurant customers with access to more traffic,” Guy Halfhead, Vice President of Sales, Livebookings. “Urbanspoon’s user base represents high-quality diners looking to find and book reservations; matching them with our reservation inventory makes perfect sense to our business.”
“Dimmi’s goal is to provide our restaurant customers with access to the best diners in the region and driving new reservations through Urbanspoon allows us to deliver even more value to our restaurants,” said Stevan Premutico, founder and CEO of Dimmi. “Urbanspoon is a popular source of premier restaurant content in Australia and we’re excited about integrating our high-quality reservation product with their website and mobile app.”
Urbanspoon’s expansion into the international market also began with coverage in Ireland, putting information and reviews on more than 2,000 restaurants at the fingertips of Irish (and lucky visiting) diners.
Urbanspoon aggregates restaurant content from across the Web including newspapers, professional food critics, bloggers and diners. It allows diners to make restaurant reservations through its online booking service, both on the Web and mobile. Urbanspoon also offers restaurants Urbanspoon Rezbook – a reservation and table management system built to run on the Apple iPad.
Should a donut be glazed or filled? Should brunch be sweet or savory? Does barbecue mean ribs or brisket? Is the ultimate fried chicken dark or white? In 3 weeks you can cast your deciding vote.
From 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Tuesday December 11th, Tasting Table invites you to taste and vote your way through 10 epic culinary rivalries and help raise funds for the Food Bank For New York City.
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