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Can Applesauce Help Close The Racial Health Gap? No, Wait, Hear This Chef Out

Chef Tunde Wey uses food as a tool for social justice. His company, BabyZoos, aims to use profits from the sale of applesauce to hospitals to fund ventures that create more economic opportunities for African Americans in an effort to close racial wealth — and health — gaps. L. Kasimu Harris for NPR hide caption

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Can Applesauce Help Close The Racial Health Gap? No, Wait, Hear This Chef Out

December 17, 2019 • From infant mortality rates to access to cancer treatment, stark health disparities exist between blacks and whites. One Michigan experiment to address that starts with money made from hospital food.

The Colonel In The Kitchen: A Surprising History Of Sous Vide

Illustrations of how the A.G.S. system portioned and cooked food, featured in the May 1969 issue of Cornell Hospital & Restaurant Administration Quarterly magazine. Col. Ambrose McGuckian, the author's step-grandfather, wrote in the magazine about the "water bath cooking" technique he'd developed â which sounds an awful lot like what we now know as sous vide. hide caption

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The Colonel In The Kitchen: A Surprising History Of Sous Vide

May 9, 2018 • Cooking food in a vacuum-sealed bag in a hot water bath is the height of haute cuisine. But an ex-Army colonel testing tastier hospital food seems to have had a lot to do with developing sous vide.

Wow! This meal even looks like it's served on real china. Flickr user hewyk posted this image of a lunch from a Malaysian hospital. hewyk/Flickr hide caption

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Around The World In 8 Hospital Meals

September 19, 2014 • From tasty tempura to gross gruel, hospital meals across the globe vary wildly. Highbrow institutions in China and India have long served top-notch food. U.S. hospitals are starting to follow suit.

Hospital Food So Fresh, Even The Healthy Come To Dine

Executive chef Tony DeWalt picks some lettuce from the Fauquier Hospital's culinary healing garden. John Rose hide caption

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Hospital Food So Fresh, Even The Healthy Come To Dine

May 9, 2012 • You won't find cardboard chicken and mushy carrots at the Fauquier Hospital in Virginia, one of a dozen health care facilities dedicated to improving patient experiences beyond their immediate medical needs. In fact, the hospital's cafeteria has become a hang out for senior diners.