VITALIZE ...our guests’ sense of wellness by offering relevant of-the-moment resources to support well-being
STAR CHEFS AND NONPROFITS HELP SPREAD THE WELLNESS WORD
Andrea Nguyen, author of the best-selling “Vietnamese Food Any Day” and others, fired up some char siu chicken and “any day Viet pickles” for a Memorial Day tie-in
OVER THE SUMMER, when many of Bon Appétit’s cafés had to close or were operating with minimal staff, guests were hungry for cooking inspiration at home. The Bon Appétit HQ team reached out to the company’s nonprofit partners and to several recent Star Chef authors (who had shared recipes and signed cookbooks at in-person café events) to serve as guest curators for the Bon Appétit blog for the week, contributing recipes and links. For 18 weeks, on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, new blog posts went up to be shared across all Bon Appétit’s active social media accounts. Among the contributors were: X Monterey
Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch team, who shared seafood prep tips and a recipe for broiled sockeye salmon with citrus glaze X Jennifer DiFrancesco and Josephine Morris from the Humane Society of the United States, who provided reasons to eat more plants along with a recipe for garbanzo bean sliders with aquafaba “mayo”
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Kimoto-Kahn, the author of Simply Ramen and Simply Hot Pots, who blogs at easypeasyjapanesey.com, chose her greenvegetable nabe, “the perfect hot pot for those times when you need a good dose of heart-healthy green vegetables” X Food What?!, a youth empowerment and food justice organization, which served up rainbow fried rice in a fun video from their Santa Cruz farm X Nikki Cooper, the second-generation owner of Two Jack’s Nik’s Place, a family-owned restaurant in San Francisco serving southern comfort food and fresh seafood since 1977, who shared her recipe for Two Jack’s Nik’s Place salmon and crab croquettes The Quarantine Culinary Engagement series, as it was called internally, ended up being a terrific way to nourish our guests with healthy recipes while spreading the word about both the values Bon Appétit shares with these organizations and some terrific cookbooks, blogs, and restaurants! — Submitted by Bonnie Powell, Director of Communications
