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Cooking Up New Ideas in Long Term Care

Cooking Up New Ideas in Long Term Care

There is a bias that comes to mind when we think about food and healthcare facilities. Images of various food products, sometimes separated by dividers on the same tray, sometimes...
Lessons in local food safety

Lessons in local food safety

Without the resources of large corporations, operators are taking extra steps to ensure diners’ health. Local sourcing helps operators tell a story with their ingredients, but after an E. coli...
Nutrition noise: who should you trust?

Nutrition noise: who should you trust?

In a landscape of opinions we are often overwhelmed with “eat this, not that” messages. Who and what can you trust? (DepositPhotos) Clamorous [klam–er-uh s]: noisily inconsistent vehement expression of desire or dissatisfaction;...
5 phrases to add to your culinary vocabulary now

5 phrases to add to your culinary vocabulary now

6 lessons from MenuDirections 2/29/2016 What I learned from MenuDirections: FSDs are a cardiologist’s dream3/2/2016 At MenuDirections 2016, FoodService Director’s culinary conference, which wrapped this week, attendees headed home with...
Lessons in local food safety

Lessons in local food safety

Our blog this week focuses on an article about buying local.  At Burlodge we are committed to helping clients use local, fresh ingredients.  We have put together a program called...
How to Develop a Recipe

How to Develop a Recipe

Creating recipes can be challenging, but also rewarding to your staff (through engagement) and to your patients (through scratch “cooking”). Making your own recipe does not mean starting from square...