When the Straz staff was sent home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we started looking for ways to stay connected to each other while apart. We’re a group that loves gathering – and one that loves gathering with food. When we’re in the building, we celebrate special occasions or large staff meetings with food, and... Continue Reading →
From Fuel to Fine Art
Food’s wild ride in human culture Somehow, humans went from scrabbling roots and berries and munching bark to inventing cauliflower ice cream, cucumber gelée, oscietre caviar and piedmont hazelnuts and making it look like this: We progressed from homo erectus stripping elephant carcasses on the African plains to homo sapiens like chef April Bloomfield who... Continue Reading →