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- Amazon’s purchase of upscale grocery chain Whole Foods has turned out to be a winner, at least in the short term. Amazon Fresh, the company’s online food service, saw an impressive 35 percent increase in sales over the last four months of 2017. The boost is being attributed to Whole Foods-branded products.
- Gordon Ramsay has a new Las Vegas restaurant, and the shouty chef wants it to be a cornerstone of his dining and television empires. Ramsay plans to use the space to film some upcoming TV projects, including the finale for the current season of Hell’s Kitchen.
- Actress Tiffany Haddish, best known for roles in Keanu and Girls Trip, is a big fan of Groupon. So, she’s parlayed that enthusiasm into a gig as the new face of the online coupon company. Expect to see Haddish in new Groupon television ads, including one planned to air during this year’s Super Bowl.
- Corn tortillas are great, but don’t forget about their flour siblings.
- Conde Nast has ended its boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel and its affiliate properties, so now employees of the media company can once again eat at the hotels’ swanky restaurants.
- Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio doesn’t want his well-off children to think they’ll be handed everything in life: “I want my kids to know that they have to work for it, and it doesn’t come easy. They weren’t around for the years and years of hard work.”
- NoMad’s new Los Angeles outpost opens for business this week. The high-profile hotel will include dining from New York chef Daniel Humm and restaurateur Will Guidara. “An eight-year-old kid in Los Angeles loves Mexican food, knows how to eat Korean barbecue, and wants to order sea urchin, so we created something authentic to L.A. through our own lens,” Humm tells Vanity Fair.
- Chef Dominique Crenn comments on her appearance at the Cayman Cookout 2018, which almost exclusively featured white men.
- Good news for McDonald’s: The chain is planning a switch to “environmentally friendly packaging materials” and wants to offer recycling in all of its restaurants.
- Bad news for McDonald’s: The British government has instituted new calorie caps on meals that that will force the chain to rethink that Big Mac.
- This is how food stamps make fresh produce more affordable.
- “Is there anything less appetizing than British food snobbery?” According to an op-ed from Australian writer Debora Robertson, no, there is not.
- Lovers of exorbitant Scandinavian cuisine, take note: The last reservations for Noma’s seafood menu open this Thursday.
- Finally, Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo resort was just hit with 15 food safety violations. No wonder Trump sticks with McDonald’s.
