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Columbia restaurant Beet Box welcomed Marthe Beze as its first guest chef for its Sunday brunch in a partnership with City of Refuge.

Home gardener Maggie Slighte was thrilled to discover that she could use food assistance program benefits to purchase seeds and food-bearing plants nearly 20 years ago. Slighte, who is lower-income and lives in Olympia with ADHD, autism and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, has been dialing in her strategy for growing food to feed herself and her family ever since.

I won't claim to be vegan, but I can certainly appreciate delicious vegan food. I don't know how these chefs make vegetables and tofu taste...

Local ingredients and products come from Beet Box, Fiddle & Stone Bread Co., Logboat Brewing Co., Stanton Brothers Eggs and more.

A state grant program meant to help small businesses and nonprofits didn’t reach all applicants equally. On average, Black business owners received less than half as much funding as white entrepreneurs from Rebuild VA, the state’s pandemic grant program, through January 2021.

EDWARDSVILLE — The Riverbend’s agricultural and artistic heritage was on full display...

Just over a year ago, Gerry Kim and Josh Gertzen, the owners of the duo of Frozen Matter ice cream shops in Uptown and Washington Park, purchased Sweet Action, an established Denver brand with its own loyal following at 52 Broadway. While the pandemic postponed Kim and Gertzens plans for merging the two brands, theyve recently been putting those plans in motion. "We spent six months just thinking about what we wanted the future to look like," Gertzen says. But after giving it much thought, the...

Row of Fan office buildings to be razed for salon-anchored development March 15, 2021 10 A row of office buildings in the Fan sold last fall for $1.3 million and are now set to be razed for a mixed-use development. ( Mike Platania photo) A row of aging office buildings in the Fan is set to be razed to make way for a new salon-anchored development. Local developer and entrepreneur Andrew Flint is planning to replace four century-old structures in the 2600 block of West Cary Street with a mixed-u...

Brave New World Even in the best of times, opening a restaurant is a risky endeavor. Opening a restaurant during a pandemic is essentially uncharted territory. While Richmond has lost a number of independent restaurants due to pandemic pressures, including gems that helped shape the dining scene, the region has also witnessed an influx of new dining establishments. We look at some of these recent additions, from a chef-driven pizzeria in Scott’s Addition to a Black-owned juice bar in the F...

Because cooking and chopping is much more fun when you’re bopping… Going vegan no longer means missing out on delicious. Many of Dubai’s best restaurants have come up with special dishes and menus for Veganuary, and there’s a wealth of vegan and vegetarian eateries to explore. But if you’d like to up your own meat-free cooking game at home, then the Beet Box vegan meal kits may be just the ticket. No matter whether you’re a committed vegan, a fledgling flexitarian, or a full-blown c...