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Thomas Breen |
Jan 14, 2021 4:09 pm
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Hotel workers picket for obs and healthcare in June. The hospitality sector has been among economy’s hardest-hit areas during Covid.
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With roughly 6,000 New Haveners filing for continued unemployment amid the pandemic, agencies are directing more workers into telehealth and nursing assistant jobs — and fewer into Covid-stymied sectors like hospitality and higher ed.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 14, 2021 12:34 pm
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Ernesto García at work.
“You never stop moving in the kitchen!” Ernesto García remarked as he sliced avocado, cooked tortillas, and directed employees.
Minutes later, one golden arepa filled with black beans, plantains, avocado, tomato, and crispy mozzarella lay plated on the bar of Rubamba, García’s High Street restaurant.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 11, 2021 4:54 pm
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IFS: All moved in on Murphy Drive.
An industrial pump manufacturer has finished moving its 75 employees into the former Radiall factory buildings in Fair Haven — and now has $7.4 million to grow its local business more.
Kuro Shiro owner Kenny Kim prepares vegan tantanmen.
The broth was creamy, savory, almost nutty. And it was vegan.
Kuro Shiro owner Dohyuan “Kenny” Kim created his recipe for vegan tantanmen with his younger brother. It was a twist on the meat-based, Japanese noodle soups that were just getting popular in the U.S. at the time.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 8, 2021 12:53 pm
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Sue DeMaio on the job.
More people have been buying canines during the past year’s pandemic, and the pooches need training and walking.
Enter Sue DeMaio of the dog training and boarding business Sit Stay Train & Play. She has rented warehouse space for a training and boarding facility at 36 River St. in Fair Haven just west of Ferry, to expand her business.
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Emily DiSalvo |
Jan 4, 2021 3:42 pm
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If you order Mikro Depot’s Sunday brunch in Hamden and can’t decide which breakfast food you are craving most, you can ask for the French toast and get the flavor of multiple breakfast foods all in one order.
City government and business leaders have launched an “Eat New Haven” campaign to encourage people to order from restaurants to help them survive the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ketkeo Rajachack with daughter Christine Son at Pho Ketkeo.
Ketkeo Rajachack learned to make khao poon from her mother to sell from an open-air tent in Laos. Now she cooks and sells the dish at her Temple Street restaurant, Pho Ketkeo.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 14, 2020 11:23 am
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Allen takes his turn seeking support at Collab gathering.
Daniel Allen is looking to help struggling New Haven youth by introducing a Dungeons & Dragons-(DND) based form of therapy “growing [kids] into heroes they wish to be.”
(Updated Monday) Alexion — the biopharmaceutical company that built a downtown tower with $41 million in government corporate welfare in 2016 and then moved its headquarters from New Haven to Boston a mere 18 months later — now has an even more distant main office: Cambridge, England.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 11, 2020 12:28 pm
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Owners Sukra Shrestha and Arjun Khadka, chef Krishna Paudel.
Arjun Khadka, the head chef and one of the owners of Cumin India on Skiff Street in Hamden, laid out a spread of Cumin’s more popular dishes. Among them were well-known fare like chicken tikka masala and garlic naan.
But the restaurant is also a place to sample Indo-Chinese dishes, a lesser-known facet of Indian cuisine that combines the influences of India and its neighbor, China. Among the many Indo-Chinese offerings on the menu is vegetarian Manchurian — vegetable dumplings topped with a sauce that pulls its ingredients from across Asia and elsewhere, and reminds us that India, as vast as it is, is also connected inextricably with the wider world.
A downtown landlord won city permission to convert an eight-story office building into new laboratory and research space, to meet what he and his attorney described as a glut of biotech companies searching for a home in a city still lacking in labs.
Neighbors Lee Cruz and Christel Manning outside the empty school.
Three years after its last failed attempt, the city is gearing up again to find someone to redevelop the vacant former Strong School — this time by extending the vision of change to the surrounding “district.”
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Lisa Reisman |
Dec 7, 2020 1:55 pm
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Prayer plant. Below: Matis and Saldi at Sunday’s pop-up.
As a first-time plant parent, Matthew Matis was anxious. He’d already selected a low-maintenance peperomia. Now he was wondering how soon he should repot.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 7, 2020 1:49 pm
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Pataka co-founders and brothers Romy and Harry Singh.
If you ask for a Chana Kulcha, Harry Singh will give you two pockets of homemade pita, overflowing with a fruity mix of sweet chutney and warm spiced chickpeas. The pomegranate seeds on top will burst with tart flavor like the fireworks after which Singh’s restaurant, Pataka, is named.
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Courtney Luciana |
Dec 7, 2020 10:46 am
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Viva Nutrition’s energy tea and Italian cookie-flavored protein shake.
Angela Vasquez mixed water and ice with protein powder, adding vanilla and lemon extract, pouring the blend into a medium size cup, layered with caramel and sprinkles. The Italian cookie-flavored shake was served up at kickoff party for her new smoothie establishment, Viva Nutrition.
