Grand Rapids Business Journal
CATEGORY: Food
BUSINESS: Amore Trattoria Italiana
Amid the garbage fire that was 2020, a plucky local celebrity chef used her platform to lead the way in helping others across West Michigan while also working to reinvent her own business during a year that required flexibility and creativity for restaurants to survive.
For her generosity, leadership and advocacy for the restaurant industry in its worst year in living memory, Jenna Arcidiacono chef and co-owner of Amore Trattoria Italiana in Comstock Park is the Business Journal’s 2020 overall Newsmaker of the Year, as well as Newsmaker of the Year in the food category.
Dry January? Apparently Not for Michiganders!
If you haven’t heard of Dry January it’s where people give up alcohol for the entire month of January. It’s kind of a way for people to start the new year healthier - physically, mentally, emotionally.
I wasn’t surprised when I read a recent article from Forbes that suggests Dry January will be “bigger than ever” this year. It only makes sense considering 2020 had some people turning to booze to cope and others found themselves making frequent liquor runs out of pure boredom.
What did kind of surprise me, though, is that a ton of Michiganders are planning on letting the alcohol continue to flow into this new year. A new survey by the American Addiction Centers found that 53% of respondents from Michigan will forego Dry January. Now that I think about it, it’s wintertime in Michigan. Hot toddy anyone?
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