These blog posts are not meant to be used to identify plants to eat, they are meant for educational purposes to learn about different wild foods used by people who are able to identify them. If you are interested in learning how to forage your own wild foods, you need to learn as much asContinue reading “Wild Foods: Spruce Trees”
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Community-Based Food Systems: A Benefit or a Detriment?
Walk into your local grocery store, what do you see? Aisles and aisles of food, the option to eat anything you could ever want. This is a relatively new experience in our existence, many people see this abundance as a positive thing. We no longer have to go out and forage or hunt food forContinue reading “Community-Based Food Systems: A Benefit or a Detriment?”
The Restaurants of the Future: Community and Sustainability Focused
Over the past year since my last blog post, I’ve quit my old job, tried to make a living off of my writing, failed. Worked as a Doordash Driver and home cook, and finally started a new job as a Front of House Manager at a casual/fine dining sushi restaurant. In this time, I’ve beenContinue reading “The Restaurants of the Future: Community and Sustainability Focused”
How COVID-19 has Affected the Chicago Restaurant Industry
I wasn’t sure whether or not I wanted to address the pandemic happening right now, as it seems like this is all we ever hear about in the news or online now. But seeing as I currently work in the restaurant industry in one of the states with the highest amount of cases in theContinue reading “How COVID-19 has Affected the Chicago Restaurant Industry”
Sustainability in the Restaurant Industry
One thing that I am torn about is whether or not having restaurants is a good or a bad thing. On one hand they are a great way to bring people together allowing them to be social. They can also help express different cultures and provide immigrant communities with a “taste of home”, or somethingContinue reading “Sustainability in the Restaurant Industry”
Underground Restaurants
Underground restaurants are fascinating to me. If you don’t know, an underground restaurant is a restaurant without a city license and are usually operated out of someone’s house or apartment. This makes these operations illegal, however enforcement on them must be insanely difficult. One of the most famous underground restaurants is Paladar. This was aContinue reading “Underground Restaurants”
The Cultural Chef 