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Meet your foods maker?

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Unless you’re grinding peanuts into butter and emulsifying egg yolks into mayonnaise at home, Einav Gefen has probably touched your food in some way. Since 2008, 39-year-old Gefen has acted as corporate chef at Unilever in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Unilever is one of the world’s leading consumer product companies, encompassing more than 400 brands [...]

College stimulates the budding food connoisseur

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Not all college students are willing to live on cold pizza, ramen noodles and greasy takeout. So to satisfy palates that lean more gourmet than grub, Latto and several friends organized a co-op in which fancy cheeses from a nearby Connecticut farm are delivered each week to the Middletown campus and distributed to students, many [...]

Expired food routed from schools to prisons

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The state Department of Education recently donated thousands of cases of out-of-date food from the school lunch program to state prisons and a county jail, documents show. The food — more than 11,000 cases of cheese, blueberries, frozen chicken, and other goods — was offered free of charge to kitchens that serve inmates, as education [...]

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