Feed Albany gets $250,000 grant from Saratoga philanthropists
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Leaders and volunteers for the Feed Albany nonprofit pose with a presentation check for $250,000 from The Mitzen Family Foundation of Saratoga Springs on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, at dp: An American Brasserie in Albany. The restaurant s co-owner, Dominick Purnomo, far left, is a Feed Albany co-founder. (Provided photo.)Provided photoShow MoreShow Less
2of5Buy PhotoEmma Sawyer, left, general manager of Savoy, volunteers with the Feed Albany program in front of the restaurant Savoy on Lark St. Wednesday, March 25, 2020 in Albany, N.Y Feed Albany is a COVID-19 relief program to help people in need such as restaurant workers who are unemployed due to the coronavirus. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Table Hopping By Steve Barnes, senior writer on January 19, 2021 at 3:36 PM
Leaders and volunteers for the Feed Albany nonprofit pose with a presentation check for $250,000 from The Mitzen Family Foundation of Saratoga Springs on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, at dp: An American Brasserie in Albany. The restaurant’s co-owner, Dominick Purnomo, far left, is a Feed Albany co-founder. (Provided photo.)
The call, somewhat cryptic, came on Friday: Get founders and board members of the Feed Albany nonprofit together on Monday for the announcement of a “major donation.”
“All they’d say was that it was six figures,” said Francesca Pardi, a Feed Albany board member and its executive director, who took the call from a representative of the Saratoga Springs-based Mitzen Family Foundation.
Critic s Notebook: 12 dining trends to watch for in 2021
Susie Davidson Powell
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Topping a Duck Donut doughnut with drizzle at Duck Donuts in Latham.Kristi Gustafson Barlette/Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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How will we eat in 2021? How can we know? At this time of year, the food media is busy trotting out year-ahead predictions, tech innovations and consumer habits using industry and supermarket data and trend-watching chefs. But none could foresee a pandemic ravaging the restaurant industry as we knew it, so it’s even more like fumbling in the dark.
Table Hopping By Steve Barnes, senior writer on January 6, 2021 at 2:18 PM
In her
column for this coming Sunday’s newspaper (1/10), critic Susie Davidson Powell identifies a a dozen trends she thinks will help define the dining and restaurant scene in 2021. Among them:
More Technology: You know it’s coming. More ghost kitchens, more apps, more cloud-based food delivery with software sensitive enough to remember preferences about curbside pickup and geo-synced to know your time of arrival.
Chef Meal Kits: Taking over where cook-at-home companies left off, restaurants will tap the home-cooking revival with their chefs offering online classes, crafting weekly meal kits and monthly cook-at-home meal subscriptions.