Red Meat: Plating Protein
Meat is usually a restaurant’s priciest food purchase. But even with wholesale food costs skyrocketing over the past year, the current news isn’t all dismal at the center of the plate. Red meats haven’t been hit as hard as wheat, eggs and dairy products. Yet.
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More and more chefs are blogging. They blog about everything from restaurant openings to new dishes, the flavor of a farmstead cheese or the culinary high point of a trip. Free online tools like Blogger, Wordpress and Typepad make it relatively easy to set up a blog, add photos, recipes and forums and share plenty of savory tidbits.