In celebration of the holiday season last December, cafeteria employees at Houston Independent School District decorated ugly holiday aprons to wear in the kitchen. Staff also posted pictures of their creations on the district’s social media account.
The dining team at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla., honored National Cookie Day last year by offering freshly baked cookies at its Suwannee Room.
National Chocolate Covered Everything Day (Dec. 16)
The dining team at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., celebrated this day last year with a chocolate-themed dinner for guests, which included dishes such as mole chicken and chocolate cheesecake streusel pizza.
Inside a new college dining facility seeking to shine despite COVID-19
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New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31)
In honor of New Year’s Eve in 2019, the dining team at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., encouraged students to look back and share their favorite meal, event or program from the past year on social media.
The final weeks of this school year have been turbulent at dozens of college campuses across the country, driven by differing views of the Israel-Hamas war.
From day-to-day dining to Diwali, Chef Rajeev Patgaonkar, CEC, AAC, HGT, has forged a culinary path that’s allowed a generation at Michigan State University to experience the truly fascinating flavors of Indian cuisine and given Indian students and faculty at taste of home.