A German cookery school gets creative amid lockdown by delivering high-class meals to diners in their own motorhomes.
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Wine & Spirits: Making Handmade ‘Fire-Charred Whiskey Barrels’ (Video)
Adirondack Barrel Cooperage uses traditional coopering methods to build spirit barrels out of American oak. Their one-of-a-kind barrel charring and toasting process imparts complex flavors in spirits, like smoke, coconut, vanilla, caramel, and more.
Website: https://www.adirondackbarrelcooperage…
Credits: Producers: Carla Francescutti, Pelin Keskin Director: Carla Francescutti Camera: Murilo Ferreira, Carla Francescutti Editor: Carla Francescutti
Dining: ‘New Orleans Magazine’ (Dec 2020 Issue)
New Orleans Magazine – December 2020
Food Lovers Guide
New Orleans is a food town, with a dedicated population that holds on tightly to old favorite haunts, while embracing and celebrating new traditions and new faces. For our annual December list of restaurant, food and drink “bests,” our team…
From the Editor
In New Orleans, we have a special relationship with food and dining (and, of course, imbibing). This year, due to COVID-19, our love affair with food took on especially new meaning, as many of us turned to comfort food, take-out…
Christmas Unwrapped
You can always tell who, in a Zoom meeting, is not wearing a bra. They are the ones you see just from the eyeballs up. My sister-in-law Gloriosa goes to a lot of them meetings, being socially active and all.…
Diet Study: The Top 250 U.S. Movies Depict Unhealthy Foods & Drinks (Stanford)
Stanford researchers examined the 250 top-grossing American movies of recent decades and found the on-screen foods and beverages largely failed U.S. government nutrition recommendations and U.K. youth advertising standards.
Culinary Travel Video: ‘Izakaya’ Bars In Tokyo
Izakaya are the most popular bars to go out in Japan: places to drink, eat and have fun.
Culinary Arts Video: ‘Salt-Baked Abalone & Wagyu Beef’ In Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Teppanyaki lunch of Fried Garlic Flakes, Salt-Baked Abalone, Japanese Wagyu & Fried Rice at Ukai-Tei in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Preview Video: ‘Monocle Magazine’- November 2020
As a landmark US election approaches, Jane Fonda, Theaster Gates and Chris Wallace offer their thoughts on where the country should go next. Change elsewhere comes in the form of city farms, the latest design finds and an art fair redux. Plus: we survey North Rhine-Westphalia, a region on the up.
Food & Dining: ‘Top 100 Independent Restaurants’
RB’s Top 100 Independents ranking is a measure of the highest-grossing independent restaurants. Only restaurant concepts with no more than five locations are considered “independents” for the purpose of this list (although it’s possible a restaurant that shares a name with a chain but is owned and operated separately would qualify, such as Smith & Wollensky in New York City). Rankings are based on gross 2018 food and beverage sales. Information was gathered through surveys. When data wasn’t provided, sales were estimated based on public information, similar concepts and other factors.
Tomorrow’s Restaurant: Multiple Drive-Thru Lanes & Seatless Dining (Video)
Burger King unveiled its new prototype last month, a prototype that it began working on shortly after the pandemic began. It features a much smaller dining room, or no dining room at all, along with two or three drive-thru lanes, walk-up windows and curbside lanes. Some of the options allow for the complete removal of indoor seating.
Burger King’s latest restaurant design assumes that customers will not go back to dine-in service.
It’s not as if the Miami-based burger chain’s latest prototype doesn’t feature indoor seats. But its restaurants are 60% smaller, meaning a much smaller dining room. And one version of it replaces the dining room altogether with patio seating.
But the design is heavy on takeout options, an acknowledgement that consumers have been shifting that way for some time and then went all-in on takeout during the pandemic. It features two or three drive-thru lanes, with digital menu boards and merchandising. A “living wall” provides a view into the kitchen interior featuring Burger King’s broiler. And there’s an external walkup window on the glass façade.
Food Industry Video: ‘How Restaurants Will Be Preparing For Winter (WSJ)
About 90% of the Duck Inn’s current revenue comes from customers enjoying socially distant table service in their outdoor seating area. Especially in places like Chicago where temperatures drop below freezing, it’s one of many restaurants grappling with how to prepare for and survive winter.
Photo: Nicolas Silva for The Wall Street Journal
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