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Turning The Tables: Watch Our Discussions on the Future of Restaurants

What's next for restaurants and for chefs? We asked the industry's sharpest minds how the restaurant industry can respond and evolve in response to the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Only in Tokyo - Mannequins and Cheerleaders Create Unique Atmosphere

Tokyo restaurant uses mannequins and cheerleaders to aid social distancing. Thank you, Tokyo.

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Watch Josh Niland Masterfully Break Down a Kingfish

Watch the Australian 'fish wizard' doing what he does best in this mesmerising clip, as he masterfully breaks down a large kingfish, from head to tail.,

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Bee Wilson: "We suddenly see the true value of food."

If lockdown has been good for anything, it has reconnected us with our food, says food writer and historian Bee Wilson, and the more people cook at home, the more they discover the true value of food.

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Amanda Cohen: We Need to Fix Our Restaurant Industry

In Fine Dining Lovers’ Turning The Tables, a series of talks by restaurant industry leaders, Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy speaks about how the coronavirus crisis heighted issues in the industry and how it needs to change.

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Poolish or Biga: Meet the Starters that Add Character to your Bake

Poolish, also called liquid biga or yeast, is a leavening method used in indirect baking. It's a pre-ferment that makes baked goods soft, fragrant and aromatic, especially bread and pizza.

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Cacio e Pepe: Through the Eyes of the Chef Riccardo Camanini

Through The Eyes of The Chef will teach you how to cook the classic Italian recipe like a pro, with tips, tricks and techniques from one of Italy’s best chefs.

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How to Support Black-Owned Food Businesses in the US

A list of resources highlighting black-owned businesses from restaurants and delivery to groups and events.

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When the Cost of Food Delivery Might Be Too High

As food delivery drivers are forced to put themselves in danger, we should be asking ourselves is it really worth the cost?

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Chef Greg Baxtrom Offers Restaurant to Aspiring Black Entrepreneurs

Chef Greg Baxtrom of Olmsted in Brooklyn has offered his Maison Yaki restaurant to aspiring black entrepreneurs to springboard their career.

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PPP Fix Passes First Hurdle

The House of Representatives has passed a bill to amend the government's Paycheck Protection Program, but more needs to be done according to the Independent Restaurant Coalition.

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NYC Chef Vikas Khanna Serves 8 Million meals to India’s Needy

New York-Indian based Michelin star chef Vikas Khanna has so far fed over 8 million Indians during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Marcus Samuelsson: "Racism is Bigger than the Pandemic"

Marcus Samuelsson opens up about making Harlem his home, the cornavirus pandemic, serving 30,000 meals with WCK and ingrained racism.

Fine Dining Lovers Coronavirus Survey for Professionals

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Turning The Tables

The Coronavirus Survey: The Expert View

Read the Fine Dining Lovers Coronavirus Survey and find out what restaurant industry experts really think about the crisis.

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The Coronavirus Survey: What Diners Think

For the lowdown on the lockdown and beyond, read the Fine Dining Lovers Coronavirus Survey, and find out how diners are dealing with the crisis.

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Turning The Tables

Grant Achatz on Why Take-Out Will Never Be The Same Again

The three-star Michelin chef talks about what it was like to pivot his world-famous Alinea restaurant in Chicago to offer take out.

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Ana Roš on Preserving Food Chains

The Slovenian chef Ana Roš talks about how her and her entire team lived on lockdown inside their restaurant during quarantine.

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Riccardo Camanini and his creamy parmesan risotto

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Creamy Parmesan Risotto with Chef Riccardo Camanini

Learn how to make creamy parmesan risotto with this parmesan risotto recipe from Michelin-starred chef Riccardo Camanini.

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Skilling it

Breadscoring | sKILLING IT

Scoring bread dough before it goes in the oven determines the shape and texture of the finished loaf.

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Famous Chefs

Kitchen Quarantine: Massimo Bottura and Family's Cooking Show

Creativity runs in Bottura's family and in his DNA.

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Massimo Bottura’s Advice to Young Chefs

The great Italian chef, Massimo Bottura, offers up advice to a young chef asking about transitioning from a learning role to a leading role, making the jump

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Food Doodles

15 Cheeses from Around the World

Around the world in 15 cheeses. From Netherlands to Georgia, discover some of the cheeses from Around the world.

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Dishcovery: a dinner at Mishiguene

We were lucky enough to enjoy an evening at Mishiguene’s Chef’s Table in Buenos Aires.

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Mitsuharu Tsumura on Ghost Kitchens, New Concepts and Cooking for Community

Mitsuharu Tsumura from the Maido restaurant in Peru, Lima, talks about his newest plans to open more local, community and democratic models of dinning in his

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Turning The Tables

Pivotal Lockdown Lessons| Turning The Tables

The industry has moved, shifted, evolved and as Brian Canlis says in this inspirational collection of lockdown lessons: they learned to break the box and bui

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Gourmet Recipes

Arcimboldo Inspired Fish Soup

A warm fish soup recipe with shrimps, quick and easy to prepare, that will bring the taste of sea to your table

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Ravioli With Ricotta Cheese And Wild Herbs

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Traditional Italian Food

Ravioli With Ricotta Cheese And Wild Herbs

Follow this authentic Italian pasta recipe to prepare homemade cheese ravioli with a light ricotta and wild herbs filling

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Davide Scabin

Check Salad

Check salad recipe: chef Davide Scabin's interpretation of mixed salad, a easy and gourmet dish that fully reflects Combal.zero style

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Traditional Italian Food

Risi E Bisi (Rice With Peas)

Risi e bisi recipe: how to cook a easy rice and peas dish perfect for spring, with an ancient recipe from Venice

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Traditional Italian Food

Beef Tenderloin On A Bed Of Salt

Beef tenderloin recipe: how to cook tenderloin steak salt, a easy and fat free cooking method to enhance the flavours of meat

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Italian Cuisine

Seafood Lasagna

Shrimp lasagna: this easy seafood pasta recipe, brought in Italy by the traveller Marco Polo, is a tasty and quick version of the Italian lasagna

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Spanish Food

Tapas Croquettes

Looking for Spanish tapas recipes? Try these fried ham croquettes, a tasty and easy Spanish recipe

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American Food

Pumpkin Apricot Meringue Tartlet

Pumpkin tart recipe with apricot and meringue: an American dessert by Heather Scholten from the food blog Farmgirl Gourmet, for Halloween or Thanksg

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French Food

Stuffed Veal Ears

Mushrooms, chicken and béchamel sauce: the perfect stuffing for veal ears, in this delicious French offal recipe

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Traditional Italian Food

Eggplant Caponata

Easy eggplant caponata recipe for the famous Italian vegetable dish that you can serve both warm and cold

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Replanting a Movement: Dan Barber’s Kitchen Farming Project

As the coronavirus lockdown continues to hit the food and restaurant industries hard, The Kitchen Farming Project is Blue Hill chef Dan Barber's latest initiative to keep the farm-to-table movement alive and kicking.

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Michelin Chefs cook

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Watch Michelin Chefs Cook Ground Beef

Ground beef recipes are given star treatment in the hands of Michelin starred chefs like April Bloomfield, Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay, as they put their spin on classic comfort food dishes, from burgers to chilli beef lettuce wraps.

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Michelin Chefs: How to Cook Beetroot

Michelin chefs like Gordon Ramsay teach you how to cook beetroot with beautiful, bold, sweet and savoury recipes!

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Michelin Chefs Show You How to Slow Cook

If you're devoting more time to the kitchen these days, long and slow cooking is where it's at! Marinading, braising and casseroling: find out how in the hands of Daniel Humm, Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay and many more.

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Watch: Michelin Chefs on How to Make Cake

Join Michelin chefs as they roll up their sleeves and get back to baking! From Blumenthal's black forest gateau to Peter Gilmore's chocolate cake, these are the must-try bakes given Michelin starred makeovers.

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Michelin Chefs Cook Croque Monsieur

Watch Michelin chefs put their spin on the finest French sandwich, and prepare to be transported straight to a Parisien street side cafe.

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Kitchen Culture

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How Hospitality Workers Can Mind their Minds During Lockdown

How hospitality professionals can safeguard their mental health during the coronavirus crisis

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Camilla Marcus is Fighting for the Survival of NYC's Independent Restaurants

Camilla Marcus is the owner of West~bourne in SoHo in NYC and founder of a NYC coalition lobbying the government for relief for independent restaurants as the coronavirus pandemic threatens their future.

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Keller, Meyer and Dayton Talk Coronavirus on The Boss Files Podcast

Chef Thomas Keller, Danny Meyer and Eric Dayton open up about the challenges they've faced during the coronavirus outbreak and what people can do to weather the storm.

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Galvanizing the Industry: Olmsted Opens as Community Food Bank

The New York Hospitality Coalition is forming a community from the fractured service industry to try and chart a way out of the coronavirus crisis together.

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How to Bid on a Private Dinner Cooked by Daniel Humm

The Make it Nice Hospitality group has initiated an online fundraising auction to raise money for their New York team affected by restaurant closures.

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Mugaritz Amazing Collection of Water Themed Dishes

Mugaritz test the infinite "shapes of water" in a series of recipes exploring how the playful ingredient we take for granted can interact with diners in a pl