What are you doing during the quarantine?

Hello Flavor Foray Friends,

We just learned that Treaty Oak Distilling, one of our favorite visits in Austin, has switched production from Bourbon to sanitizer. Amazing! This has inspired us to ask all of you what you’re doing during this period of isolation.

We appreciate how hard this crisis has hit the restaurant/foodservice industry. Sadly some restaurants have closed. Hopefully, others are surviving by offering take-out and we would love to hear about any particularly creative approaches you’re taking or any partnerships you may have formed to help you feed first responders or food banks. Perhaps you’re devoting time to r&d, developing new menus, researching new ingredients, or developing new formats of service.  Some hotels are housing first responders. Our hope is that we all have a future in this industry.

Please share your actions and ideas with us. We’ll then compile them and share them with all of you. We don’t want to create a burden when you’re already overstretched. But if you can take a minute to write a couple sentences, and email bstephenwest@gmail.com, it could be helpful or inspiring to your colleagues.

Heartfelt thanks,

Barbara Mathias & Beverly Stephen
Flavor Forays