With today’s ever-growing interest in wellness and healthy eating, elevating veggies to much more than an afterthought is a challenge increasingly being taken up by chefs.
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With today’s ever-growing interest in wellness and healthy eating, elevating veggies to much more than an afterthought is a challenge increasingly being taken up by chefs.
In our busy, challenging world, we tend to obsess over the new. The latest tech gadget. The newest fad diet. It’s understandable why. But as the saying goes, everything old is new again. And that helps to explain why a 5,000-year-old healing and wellness system is having its moment now.
Name a famous hotel meeting room. No offense to those spaces where we spend so many important hours, but they tend to be remembered for what planners bring to them rather than for themselves. Now name a famous hotel bar. Ahhh, that’s a different story. Hotel bars, in fact, have unending stories.
You know Bordeaux for the wine. And, indeed, it is the world wine capital. But another plus is its ever-increasing ability to host MICE events.
Not so long ago, bartenders gave no respect to nondrinkers. As in, a disdainful look and maybe a desultory question, such as, “You want fruit in that club soda, mister?”
There’s something new down on the farm. Have you heard? Carbon farming, it’s called. And it’s hoped it will do something more than feed us. It could help save us.
Like today’s meeting planners, Stone Age hunter-gatherers led their tribes from place to place. For team activities such as finding food, their versions of meeting apps were sharpened sticks, bows and fishing nets. Then humanity marched onward, yet what’s this? As an antidote, perhaps, to modern life, chefs are returning to platings that showcase Stone Age-like foraging, as well as sea life caught or gathered in sustainable ways. Here is a sampling of such restaurants.
Stay sharp and live well by keeping your brain healthy in the face of always-on technology, environmental contaminants and poor sleeping habits.
Where can you save, and what can be cut—partially or entirely? Historically, team-building activities have been a tempting target. They can be expensive. And they have a checkered reputation. Will goat yoga or blindfolded bungee jumping really bond co-workers? Is corporate fun worth the cost?
From quirky to luxe, these are directionally appropriate.
