menu development

Caesar was a focus of a recent event at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo—and we’re not talking about the salad. SUNY Buffalo students got to eat like Julius Caesar and more at the Eat Like a Roman event held in the spring. In collaboration with the university’s department of classics, the dining services department prepared a menu of items eaten during Roman times, scaling up recipes from ancient Roman cookbooks, like “Apicus” and “Roman Cookery,” for the event.

The vegan concept “Shoots” will provide vegan fare for both lunch and dinner Monday through Friday.

Marines at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, in Twentynine Palms, Calif., recently got a taste of the unfamiliar when Joseph Chu, owner of local Red Lotus Restaurant joined Marine cooks for a day to teach them how to prepare some of the restaurant’s signature Vietnamese and Thai dishes.