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But many restaurants are weighing the risk of reopening dining rooms and the reality that their business models just wouldn’t work in the long run with takeout as their only source of income. I can’t be truly thrilled until we have this contained and don’t have to work our way around the virus for employment. Rebecca, another Starbucks worker in Tennessee, wasn’t comfortable going into work back in March, before Starbucks made the decision to close. n’t feel comfortable returning to work because I’ve been seeing a lot of statistics about how the United States is not where it needs to be in terms of testing,” she said.

But in fact, some line cooks turn to refreshing skin care, muscle salves, and epsom salts to keep going — habits and products that could come in handy for anyone, regardless of time spent over a skillet. The primary self-care goal of Jules Beidel, who works the fresh pasta station at New York City Italian spot Bottino, is dissolving the “invisible layer of flour” that coats her face and body by the end of the day. She layers her skin-care products almost as delicately as the components of a dish, putting her faith in the Innisfree green tea line’s toner, serum, moisturizer, eye cream, and mask. He doesn’t get burned much these days, but things can still get ugly when other cooks aren’t aware of their motions.

Before we dive into the big food TV season ahead, I’ve got a recommendation for a terrific show that quietly slipped into the Netflix library last month, plus a roundup of the week’s food-related entertainment news. Here’s what’s new and good: American television producers could learn a lot from the Chefs’ Line, an Australian import whose first season is now streaming on Netflix. I wish that all cooking shows had hosts and judges who were as good at talking about food as the Chefs’ Line’s Mark Olive, Dan Hong, and Melissa Leong. While the Chefs’ Line is a fairly breezy series, the show also represents two major trends in the cooking competition genre that I would love to see continue to flourish: Like its Netflix siblings the Great British Baking Show and Sugar Rush, this new competition completely eschews traditional reality TV villain tropes

Sure, sitting down to a magical feast might turn your parents into pigs and leave you to navigate your way through a haunted bathhouse until you can lift the curse, but the noodles look so enticing, sometimes better than the real thing, so maybe it’s worth the pig parents. TikTok user Michael Chow is illuminating the beautiful use of food in anime by recreating animated food scenes with actual cooking. Yes, the animation looks more appetizing, the shine on a fresh cracked egg as it seeps into a bowl of rice is all the more lustrous when an illustrator can choose the lighting, but Chow’s versions are tempting if only because someone actually gets to eat them. Chow did not respond to our request for comment, but he’s no stranger to the world of food TikTok, which often is about making some really calming content.