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AHF launches video contest

 Sep. 12, 2011

Sept. 12—The Association for Healthcare Foodservice is once again celebrating National Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week—Oct. 3-9—with a video contest. The association is looking for short, original...

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Joseph Charette named executive director at Rutgers

Sep. 08, 2011

Sept. 8—After a national search that began last October, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick, has announced that Joseph Charette is its new executive director of dining servi...

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Witnessing—and tasting—history

By Paul King on Sep. 08, 2011

Dear readers: How did you spend your Labor Day? Picnic? Party? Laze the day away at the beach? Veg out in front of the TV watching sports?

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Let’s Move! hires Judith Palfrey as new director

Sep. 07, 2011

Sept. 7—Judith Palfrey has been named the executive director of the Let’s Move! campaign. Dr. Palfrey, a mother of three, is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and is the past preside...

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Restaurant Associates, Marcus Samuelsson open pop up as part of partnership

Sep. 07, 2011

Sept. 7— Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson is opening a pop-up restaurant outside Lincoln Center in New York as part of his collaboration with Restaurant Associates’ corporate and cultural dining opera...

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“BabyBerk” debuts at UMass

Sep. 07, 2011

Sept. 7—BabyBerk, the new food truck at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, made its debut Sept. 6 in what Dave Eichstadt, assistant director for retail dining, said was a “soft” opening. The tr...

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Crazy end to wild summer

By Paul King on Sep. 01, 2011

It certainly has been a crazy summer here in the Northeast. Too much rain, then not enough, and then—courtesy of Hurricane Irene—way, way too much. We’ve survived the heat, although it wasn’t as bad for us as it was for those folks in Texas and Oklahoma, and we even endured an earthquake.

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The Broiling Point

Aug. 31, 2011

Steak, chicken, fish, burgers—all of these are menu staples, and all of them reach flavor perfection when broiled. That’s why the broiler has become an indispensable piece of equipment. Fro...

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"Killer" Tomatoes

Aug. 31, 2011

Tomato lovers may start getting gloomy as summer draws to a close, but there are still plenty of reasons to rejoice. Local red, yellow, orange, purple and striped beauties are at their peak well into ...

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Sized Right

Aug. 31, 2011

Appetizers heat up the menu. Call them starters, small plates, bar food or even tapas—appetizers are seeing a lot of action. And it’s not all that surprising. Today’s thriftier restaurant c...

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