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11 ways onsite chefs are beating cabin fever with Caribbean cuisine

Plantains, black beans and rice, pulled pork, mojo sauce and more: This is the way to get your menu on island time.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Senior Editor

March 15, 2021

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Though world travel remains a distant dream as the winter of the pandemic melts into spring, Stony Brook University’s foodservice team is helping the cooped-up campus community make a virtual getaway through food.

Students there—who in the past would have been plotting a spring break—are as stir crazy as the rest of us. And so, the dining team’s new series, Global Night, has proven a nice bright spot, complete with a taste of Cuba, featuring a few chefs’ creations.

“With travel restrictions due to COVID, Global Night is a great way to take students on a culinary journey around the world,” says Van Sullivan, executive director, Faculty Student Association at Stony Brook University. Sullivan and the team have also been fighting cabin fever with an interactive fitness challenge

See how Stony Brook and others are switching over to “island time” with ingredients like plantains, mojo sauce, jerk chicken, pulled pork (or cauliflower steaks for plant-based eating), black beans, yucca and more.

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About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Senior Editor, Informa Restaurant & Food Group

Tara Fitzpatrick is Food Management’s senior editor and a contributor to Restaurant Hospitality and Nation’s Restaurant News, creating editorial content for digital, print and events. Tara holds a bachelor of science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kent State University. Before joining Food Management in 2008, Tara was associate editor at National Association of College Stores in Oberlin, Ohio. Prior to that, Tara worked as a newspaper reporter in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she lives now. Tara is a fan of food history, legends, lore, ghost stories, urban farming and old cookbooks. 

Tara Fitzpatrick’s areas of expertise include the onsite foodservice industry (K-12 schools, colleges and universities, healthcare and B&I), menu trends, sustainability in foodservice, senior dining, farm-to-table and innovation.

Tara Fitzpatrick is a frequent webinar and podcast host and has served on the board of directors for IFEC (International Food Editors Consortium).

Tara Fitzpatrick’s experience:

Senior Editor, Food Management (Feb 2008-present)

Associate Editor, National Association of College Stores (2005-2008)

Reporter, The Morning Journal (2002-2005)

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