South Beach Wine & Food Festival helps hurting restaurants
KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press
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MIAMI BEACH (AP) Some of the biggest celebrity chefs are in Miami this weekend for the annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival, including Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis and Martha Stewart. But behind the glamour and private dinners that can sell for as much as $500 a ticket, the festival has been quietly working behind the scenes to help restaurants struggling during the pandemic.
Last year s event, which fed more than 65,000 people at more than 100 events, was held just weeks before the COVID lockdown. Miami has long been a foodie town with hundreds of local chefs and restaurants contributing to the massive food festival.
Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance quits firm after tweets
April 15, 2021
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MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance has resigned from the board of a company that uses green technology to mass-produce food in Appalachia, days after sending some controversial tweets.
Vance was an early investor in AppHarvest, a mega-greenhouse company that produced its first tomatoes this year at a 300-employee facility in Morehead, The Herald-Leader reported.
But Vance also is being floated in Ohio as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, and he s drawn criticism online for his opposition to corporations that are protesting GOP efforts in multiple states to change voting laws.