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Menu Talk with Pat and Bret is a collaboration between Restaurant Business senior menu editor Pat Cobe and Bret Thorn, senior food & beverage editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality.

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Menu Talk: Pat and Bret chat about the latest food and drink trends and share an interview with Chris Morgan, chef at Persian fine-dining restaurant, Joon

byPatricia Cobe, Bret Thorn
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Yara Herrera, chef and partner at Hellbender in the Queens, N.Y., neighborhood of Ridgewood
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Trends in coffee and ranch dressing, plus Wingstop’s multicultural new sauceTrends in coffee and ranch dressing, plus Wingstop’s multicultural new sauce
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