[unable to retrieve full-text content]
Republic Wireless shutting down as Dish moves customers over to Boost Infinite FierceWireless:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(758x244:760x246)/Daily-Harvest-062223-2b85c08aef5047848989c8600bd7456a.jpg)
Daily Harvest is once again facing backlash.
In April 2022, the vegan food subscription service began shipping out their French Lentil and Leek Crumbles dish, which eventually prompted nearly 400 reported adverse reactions, including 133 hospitalizations. Then in October, during ongoing lawsuits stemming from the product's "gastrointestinal ailments," Daily Harvest held a two-day company retreat called “Harfest”, according to a report from Bloomberg.
(Over 70 people are currently suing Daily Harvest, according to Bloomberg. More, who signed Daily Harvest's terms of service as a customer, are in arbitration.)
Filled with games, food and a party with a live band, the event was initially supposed to be held in June, but was postponed by CEO Rachel Drori when the recalled product was at the center of an investigation, per Bloomberg.
The company party has been criticized by consumers, who have expressed outrage on social media and included screenshots of Drori wearing a super hero costume.
In a statement to PEOPLE, Daily Harvest clarified the purpose of the event.
"Like many businesses, Daily Harvest had an annual retreat to discuss business priorities as well as build camaraderie and collegiality among the team," the statement read. "It is disappointing - and falsely accusative - to reference such team-building games or activities in order to wrongly make it appear as if Daily Harvest has a cavalier attitude towards its business or its customers."
In a statement to Bloomberg, the brand also said that “no executives were intoxicated” at Harfest.
In July of 2022, nearly one month after the voluntary recall on the French Lentil and Leek Crumbles dish, Daily Harvest revealed the ingredient that likely caused customer illnesses was tara flour. The company described the flour as a "plant-based source of protein," derived from the seeds of tara trees. These findings were the result of an investigation spearheaded by Daily Harvest with support from the FDA and CDC, according to a statement from their website at the time.
One affected consumer, Colleen Dunn, who is also separately suing Daily Harvest according to Bloomberg, spoke to the outlet about developing liver disease while 12 weeks pregnant. “I felt scared, betrayed—and quite frankly I felt like an idiot for trusting the company’s messaging as much as I did," she said.
Also per the outlet, almost 40 of the consumers impacted had to get their gallbladders removed.
More than a year after customers reported getting sick, the CEO spoke out in an interview with Fast Company in June.
“We started this business with the very distinct mission to help people,” Drori told the outlet in her first interview since the crisis. “When you find out somebody gets sick [from your food], it’s a lot to take in.”
Drori further explained she had no idea that tara flour might be unsafe to consume, saying the company checked to make sure it had research on its health impacts.
“It definitely didn’t appear as a novel ingredient when we decided to use it,” Drori said. “There were multiple established reputable suppliers in the U.S. that had it in their catalog. In hindsight, we learned that while it was offered by many [suppliers], it’s unclear how much it had actually been used.”
Since the uproar over the product’s side effects, Drori confirmed the company has changed the way they source and research their ingredients.
“We’ve augmented our sourcing strategy based on this experience,” she revealed. “We’re not going to use an ingredient if it has not been widely and safely used in the United States.”
Daily Harvest was founded in 2015 and is a food subscription company that ships frozen and organic pre-made food products. Starting this month, the brand expanded to the freezer aisle at select Kroger Family of Companies stores like Ralph's, Kroger and more.
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
Unique Eats: Peruvian Paella-Style Dish Called Arroz Carretillero at Embarcadero 41 in Coral Springs TAPinto.net
Shares of Dish Network (DISH 11.61%) initially climbed more than 9% early Wednesday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The stock then gave up those gains to trade lower on the day and lost further ground on Thursday after the telecom provider announced a new partnership with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) to sell its Boost Infinite Unlimited wireless postpaid plan to Amazon Prime members. Amazon shares were down slightly on the news.
Starting this week, Amazon Prime members will be automatically pre-qualified to sign up for Boost Infinite's $25/month unlimited wireless plan, with the price locked in for life. They'll also receive a 20% discount off a SIM kit and a $25 bill credit toward their first month of service with Boost Infinite.
With around 200 million Amazon Prime members as of this writing, the market's positive knee-jerk reaction to the announcement was understandable. Dish will enjoy a massive sales funnel for prospective new subscribers looking for an affordable unlimited postpaid wireless service, while Amazon can tout it as another modest perk for its Prime members.
However, investors are likely disappointed that the news is a far cry from early speculation that Amazon was looking to partner with Dish on an even lower-cost or no-cost wireless service to Prime members.
In any case, this news isn't exactly a disruptive game-changer to the mobile industry but rather appears to be a modest positive for Dish at best. That could change over time if Amazon and Dish decide collectively to lower or even eliminate the cost to consumers, but for now, it's no surprise to see Dish shares falling in response.
John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Steve Symington has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon.com. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
Dish Network down in Erie, Meadville YourErie[unable to retrieve full-text content]
Denver-area cellphone service provider brings plan to Amazon - Denver Business Journal The Business JournalsOpensignal and Ookla, two top wireless network-monitoring companies, said they currently have no plans to publicly report on Dish Network's 5G speeds anytime soon.
"Dish will start to be showcased if and when they become a 'top provider,' which also requires a 3 percent sample share," wrote an Ookla representative in response to questions from Light Reading. "Our content and data science team are always looking at our data to see what story there is for us to accurately and reliably tell. Our team has determined that when it comes to Dish, if we currently included them in our analyses at this time, while informed, our statements would still be speculation."
An Ookla representative further explained that the company only reports on providers with at least a 3 percent share "to ensure that most consumers in the area actually have access to the provider to qualify it as the fastest, most consistent or having the best coverage."
(Source: Dish)
Ookla, which offers the popular Speedtest app, recently released its second quarter 2023 data for the US market, showing that T-Mobile was the fastest top mobile operator in the country with a median download speed of 164.76 Mbit/s. The firm's findings stem from data obtained via apps on mobile users' smartphones.
Ookla's position is somewhat noteworthy considering Stephen Bye – previously a top Dish executive – is now in charge of the company's Connectivity division.
Opensignal – another US network-monitoring firm – said it too has no plans to report on Dish's new 5G network. A company representative explained that Opensignal is still "pretty far away from having a big enough sample of Dish users to accurately compare and contrast with other operators." The company couldn't say when that situation might change.
Opensignal's recent report on the US market showed that T-Mobile's 5G download speeds reached 195.5 Mbit/s, which the firm said was twice as fast as Verizon's speeds and 2.4 times as fast as those from AT&T.
Early tests of Dish's 5G network last year showed inconsistent speeds.
Dish's own testing
The comments are noteworthy considering Dish said it is conducting its own drive tests of its new 5G network, in order to confirm to the FCC that it is meeting its federal network-buildout requirements. Per its 2019 agreement with T-Mobile and the US Department of Justice, Dish is required to cover 70% of the US population with 5G download speeds of at least 35 Mbit/s. The company said last month it met that requirement.
"As provided in the Order, this element of the Nationwide 5G Deployment Commitment will be verified by a drive test," Dish told the FCC last month. "The drive test will utilize the Motorola Edge Plus 2023 and an industry-standard methodology mutually agreed to by Dish and the [FCC Wireless] Bureau."
Dish is working to expand its operations in the US wireless industry. The latest: Online retailing giant Amazon said it will enter the postpaid wireless industry in the US by selling services from Boost Infinite, a new wireless brand from Dish.
However, it's not clear which wireless network Amazon's offer will use; company officials declined to answer questions on the topic. Dish is in the midst of building its own 5G network, but there are only a handful of phones that can use that network. As a result, Dish has MVNO agreements with both AT&T and T-Mobile. According to one person familiar with the companies' plans, Amazon's Boost Infinite offering currently uses the T-Mobile network.
On its Project Genesis website for its own open RAN 5G network, Dish notes that it does not have any data caps. "This is a truly unlimited data plan, of course, subject to our terms and conditions (no BitTorrent, please)," the company wrote.
Related posts:
— Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading | @mikeddano
Online retailing giant Amazon said it will enter the postpaid wireless industry in the US by selling services from Boost Infinite, the primary wireless brand from Dish Network.
Dish officials cheered the news on LinkedIn:
The offering represents a noteworthy new development for both companies. Further, it could signal a tightening of the relationship between Dish (which is building a nationwide 5G network) and Amazon (which is working to expand its telecommunications offerings). Already Dish uses Amazon's cloud to run portions of its 5G network operations.
But the details around Amazon's move into the US postpaid market are decidedly modest. The company will only sell SIM cards from Boost Infinite, meaning that customers must either purchase a new phone elsewhere or use their existing phone for the service. Additionally, the offer runs through the Boost Infinite app and activation system, not through Amazon's extensive online platform. Finally, the companies aren't describing their relationship as exclusive, potentially leaving the door open for Amazon to sell postpaid services from other operators. Amazon currently offers prepaid services from a variety of brands – from Verizon to Mint Mobile – through its vast online marketplace.
"We do not think this offering is aimed to compete directly with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon's postpaid products at this point, but rather with the value market, especially as Amazon looks to further expand Prime membership," wrote the financial analysts at Raymond James. Amazon's Prime subscribers are automatically pre-qualified for Boost Infinite's service, and the Raymond James analysts estimated there are roughly 167 million Prime customers in the US.
(Source: Lisa Werner/Alamy Stock Photo)
Regardless, the analysts described the move as "a significant positive" for Dish. "It provides a large distribution channel and helps lower Subscriber Acquisition Costs (SAC) as the service looks to ramp its subscriber base. And we think it could eventually expand to include collections (e.g., Amazon Prime credit card)," they wrote.
Dish undoubtedly has been looking for a corporate win. The company's stock has languished in recent months amid fears the company will run out of funding. Dish's stock had been trending upward in recent days, but fell slightly in trading Wednesday.
The details
Amazon Prime customers can purchase Boost Infinite's SIM kit for $20 (a $5 discount) in order to activate the service. They also can get their first month of service for free. Afterwards the Boost Infinite service costs $25 per month for unlimited talk, text and data up to 30GB, after which point customers' speeds may be slowed. That pricing is the same that Dish used to launch Boost Infinite in December.
It's not clear which network Boost Infinite is using; company officials declined to answer questions on the topic. Dish is in the midst of building its own 5G network, but there are only a handful of phones that can use that network. As a result, Dish has MVNO agreements with both AT&T and T-Mobile. According to one person familiar with the companies' plans, Amazon's Boost Infinite offering currently uses the T-Mobile network.
Typically, prepaid users purchase their wireless services upfront, thereby sidestepping concerns over their credit situation. Postpaid users – which are more common in the US – typically pay their bills at the end of the month, after they use their services. Thus, it's noteworthy that Amazon's Prime customers are pre-qualified for Boost Infinite's service because it indicates that Amazon is handling the credit checking portion of the sales process.
Boost Infinite supports up to five lines per account, all at the $25 per month rate. But customers who want to add more lines to their account must do so through Boost Infinite rather than through Amazon, Cnet noted.
The context
For Dish, the move by Amazon to sell Boost Infinite represents an important new distribution point for its consumer offerings. Dish entered the US wireless industry in 2020 by acquiring roughly 8 million prepaid Boost customers from T-Mobile. Since then, it's been struggling to gain new customers and hold onto existing ones.
A big part of Dish's ultimate strategy is to leverage its MVNO deal with AT&T and T-Mobile in order to buy time for the company to build its 5G network. Eventually Dish plans to shift its mobile customer base onto its 5G network in order to lower its overall costs. But that shift likely won't happen anytime soon considering the relatively small number of phones that support its 5G spectrum bands. For example, the iPhone 14 is the first Apple gadget to support most of Dish's spectrum holdings.
For Amazon, the deal represents an expansion by the tech giant into the wireless industry. Indeed, Amazon last month was rumored to be in discussions for a cheap, or free, wireless offering for its Prime customers.
But Amazon's wireless ambitions stretch far beyond the sale of mobile services to consumers. For example, the company continues to work to sell private 5G connections to enterprise customers through its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud division.
More importantly, AWS is also working to convince 5G network operators to store some of their core networking components in the cloud. One of the first operators to do so was Dish. At the time, Dish said doing so would help it sell 5G services to enterprise customers.
"We still think that longer-term, Amazon could play a meaningful role in Dish's enterprise 5G ambitions given its large logistics footprint (e.g., fulfillment centers and transportation) and base of AWS cloud enterprise customers, so it is encouraging to see the relationship expand," wrote the Raymond James analysts this week.
Related posts:
— Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading | @mikeddano
Dish Network is getting closer to Amazon. On Wednesday, the satellite TV provider -- now also a wireless carrier -- announced a new offer with Amazon that will see its Boost Infinite postpaid service made available on the e-commerce giant's online store.
The new deal will have Dish selling SIM card kits to Amazon Prime users. The kits, which are basically a SIM card and a QR code to activate the service, are available for $25 (currently discounted to $20), but also include a $25 credit to Boost Infinite so long as you activate it within 30 days of ordering.
Boost Infinite, Boost Mobile's answer to traditional wireless service offered by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, normally runs $25 per month for unlimited talk, text and data (with 30GB of high-speed data). Dish acquired prepaid carrier Boost Mobile from T-Mobile when the latter purchased Sprint in 2020.
While Amazon sells prepaid SIM cards from a variety of carriers, including Boost Mobile, Cricket, Google Fi Wireless and Mint Mobile, in recent years it has stayed out of selling traditional postpaid wireless plans such as the one Boost Infinite offers. Whereas prepaid users buy their wireless service upfront, postpaid plans -- the more common wireless option in the US -- are when users pay their bills at the end of the month and is the main type of service offered by the major carriers.
In addition to selling on Amazon, Dish also sells Boost Infinite service at the same $25 per month price on its own website. Dish has spent years and billions of dollars acquiring wireless spectrum and is in the process of building out its own 5G network, though it also has deals with AT&T and T-Mobile to use their respective networks for the next few years.
Dish isn't saying which network new Boost Infinite users will be using on its Amazon product page, only that its service "gives you access to superfast 5G on one of America's top networks." The company declined to specify which network when contacted by CNET.
Because its Amazon offering is only available to Prime users, the carrier says that it will automatically prequalify purchasers. The company similarly touts that the $25 price is "locked-in" and won't go up, with no activation fees or other "hidden" charges beyond "state and federal taxes/surcharges."
Boost Infinite allows for up to five lines per account, all at the $25 per month rate, though those looking to add service are told to do so through the company's app or by calling Boost's customer support, not by buying more SIM kits from Amazon.
As for devices, Dish isn't selling any on Amazon at the moment and its storefront currently only features the lone SIM kit. Boost says its service will work with "most phones" made in the last five years, including those dating back to the iPhone XR, Galaxy S20 line and Pixel 5 (as well as Samsung's Z Flip and Z Fold lines). The carrier supports eSIM, which is required on the iPhone 14 line, as those devices lack a physical SIM card slot.
It is, however, worth noting that few devices sold today include the proper support for Dish's new 5G network. Even some recent phones that do, such as the iPhone 14 line that the company recently began selling on its website, have yet to have the support activated.
If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.
:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23951205/acastro_STK052_01.jpg)
Remember our fourth wireless carrier, Dish Network? No? That’s because Dish is still trying to make its Boost brand a viable alternative to the big three US carriers. It’s not going all that great, but today, the company has a new avenue to sell its services: Amazon.
Boost Infinite is the company’s postpaid brand, and it offers a basic $25 per month unlimited plan. It’s been available since December of last year and includes 5G coverage with 30GB of premium data per month. As of today, it’s available to Prime customers with some added incentives: $5 off the $25 SIM kit and $25 off your first bill.
In theory, Boost Infinite will one day use Dish’s own 5G network, which it’s still building and testing under the Project Genesis brand. Until that materializes, it uses AT&T’s and T-Mobile’s networks to provide coverage. When Dish started promoting the Boost Infinite brand last summer, it made some references to “web 3.0 trends” and the ability to turn “unused data into a real digital currency.”
Thankfully, none of that nonsense is mentioned on Boost’s website or the Amazon product page, so hopefully that’s just a distant memory of hot crypto summers past. In the meantime, $25 is a pretty good deal if you’re looking for an inexpensive, basic wireless plan. Boost says that this price is locked in as long as you keep your service active, which is nice, but never underestimate a wireless carrier’s ability to dream up new ways to charge you money.
A few years ago, Dish bought Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and became the 4th largest provider of wireless services. Back in May, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon was in talks to partner with Dish to sell wireless plans through Amazon. Now Bloomberg says the deal is done, and Amazon will start selling cheap wireless plans this week.
This move would expand Amazon’s lineup of services by offering Amazon-branded plans to its customers. According to reports, Amazon could start selling wireless plans as soon as next month. However, there are issues to work out first before this deal can be finalized.
A partnership with Amazon could be the boost Dish needs to help it finish its 5G rollout and grow its wireless plans. Dish shares recently have fallen as investors worry over its wireless and 5G plans.
This is not the first time Amazon has gotten into the wireless market. In 2014 Amazon launched the Fire Phone, a short-lived smartphone running its own OS. Now though, they want to sell the wireless plans and let you use any phone you want.
Dish currently has about 8 million wireless subscribers, but that is down from 8.6 million last year. Right now Dish uses AT&T and T-Mobile networks but is building its own network that should allow it to move away from paying 3rd parties.
No word yet on pricing but Amazon is likely to try and use special offers targeting its Prime Membership to help attract new subscribers.
Cord Cutters News has reached out to Amazon and Dish and will update our story as we learn more.
Update: Dish declined to comment on the reported deal with Amazon.
bjdlzx
Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH) shares rose more than 2% in extended-hours trading after it was reported that the company will sell mobile services on Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN).
The Charlie Ergen-led Dish (DISH) will sell its premium Boost Infinite mobile service on the e-commerce giant's website by the end of the week, Bloomberg reported, citing a person close to the matter.
Last month, it was reported that Amazon (AMZN) had been considering offering mobile service to its Prime subscribers and had talked to Dish Network (DISH), Verizon (VZ), T-Mobile (TMUS) and others.
Earlier this month, it was reported that Dish Network (DISH) could merge with sister company EchoStar (SATS), both of which are controlled by the 70-year-old Ergen.
Dish (DISH) and Amazon (AMZN) did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha.
The Washington Examiner went to Minnesota following news that the state's Democrats, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, had fast-tracked one of the most liberal agendas in state history. What we found was a struggling Republican Party, angry small-business owners, and a complete stonewall from Democrats. In this series, the Washington Examiner takes a look at broken promises lawmakers made, how Republicans are trying to control the carnage, and the unintended consequences of some of the bills passed, including one that could wipe out small-business owners.
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Republicans are ready for a reset after their bruising legislative session made national headlines but know that the road they have ahead may be anything but smooth.
GOP lawmakers had to sit back and watch their Democratic counterparts take victory laps this year after passing the most liberal agenda in state history. They've also had to see narratives their political rivals spread that they do not care about women, minorities, or education. Added to the pile-on are a number of unforced errors and scandals that have plagued the party and left it nearly bankrupt, with the latest Federal Election Commission filing showing it had only $53.81 in the bank.
TRUMP'S FEUDS WITH GOP GOVERNORS A DISTRACTION FOR HIM IN THE 2024 PRIMARY RACE
"Republicans just aren't calling the shots," Scott Cottington, a GOP consultant based in Minnesota, told the Washington Examiner. "The party's so tainted now."
Tasked with turning the political and financial tide is Minnesota GOP Chairman David Hann, a soft-spoken 71-year-old Vietnam veteran who was the former minority leader in the state Senate. He is acutely aware of the challenges that face him and doesn't sugarcoat the situation.
"What we had in place when I came here was virtually nothing," he told the Washington Examiner from GOP headquarters in Edina, Minnesota. "We had to start from the beginning, put together staff, raise money, and we were not very well prepared for a statewide election in 2022."
Minnesota just went through a midterm wave in which voters rejected Republican candidates. The state's Democrats, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, currently control four of the state's eight U.S. House seats, both of its U.S. Senate seats, both chambers of the state legislature, and all other statewide offices, including the governor's mansion.
"I would argue that we probably shot ourselves in the foot with half of those races," Hann said. "We should have been in a majority in at least one of the houses except for our own ineptitude as a party, and it's on us. I believe we just did not have the resources to counter some of the bad messaging that the Democrats put out."
After a staff exodus, the party currently has four full-time employees working out of a small suite, sandwiched between doctor's offices, investment groups, and a computer repair shop. Hanging on a whiteboard inside is a countdown to the Minnesota State Fair.
When Hann was tapped to lead the state GOP in 2021, it was arguably in shambles.
Its previous chairwoman, Jennifer Carnahan, was forced out after controversies over her alleged personal and professional conduct came to light, including ties to Anton Lazzaro, a GOP donor who was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
Carnahan sued the state party, claiming comments about her tarnished her reputation and made it impossible to find work. The party countersued, and both sides aired much of their dirty laundry in public, including claims Carnahan fostered a toxic, retaliatory work environment, mismanaged finances, and repeatedly failed to address sexual harassment allegations that had been brought to her attention.
Carnahan, the wife of the late U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), who died in 2022 from kidney cancer, claimed she did nothing wrong, but by the end of the drawn-out saga, it seemed the damage to the party had been done.
GOP activist Sheri Auclair told the Minneapolis Star Tribune at the time that the party had lost its identity.
"Right now there is no [Minnesota Republican Party] brand," she said. "Right now the state party is in ruins."
Hann was appointed to complete Carnahan's term, a position he had run for and lost to her in 2017. He won a second, two-year term in December.
In his role, his most herculean task is to secure money from a well of donors that had all but dried up so the party can put up a fight in 2024 to win back the House.
"Our whole enterprise is not as robust financially as it needs to be, and so part of my work has been to build a stronger, more sustainable support for our donor base so we do not have to go into an election year with no money and no staff or no infrastructure on hand," he said, adding that success will hinge on a select few races and how well the GOP can turn independent voters.
While the state has always tinted blue — former President Barack Obama won it twice, Hillary Clinton won it in 2016, and President Joe Biden won it in 2020, and it was the only one of the 50 states to vote for Walter Mondale over President Ronald Reagan in 1984 — it has become more competitive in recent years. Former President Donald Trump made significant gains in the state's more conservative and rural areas, but the political landscape changed, creating conditions for a liberal takeover this year.
Less than a year ago, the DFL's six-vote House majority would not have been enough to make significant changes to state policies on issues such as abortion because the majority depended on four votes from rural areas that were socially conservative. In November, three of the four representatives lost their races, but the DFL gained ground in the suburbs of St. Paul and Minneapolis, allowing the party not only to flip the state Senate but also win a 70-64 majority in the House made up of lawmakers that enthusiastically embraced a very liberal agenda that Hann said looked a lot like socialism.
Emboldened by their wins, Democratic lawmakers pushed through a highly liberal agenda that included the most sweeping pro-labor legislation in state history. It also passed laws codifying abortion rights and expanding access, greenlighting driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, legalizing marijuana, imposing background checks on private gun transfers, initiating a red-flag warning system that allows authorities to ask the courts temporarily to take guns away from people who they believe are an imminent threat, restoring voting rights to former felons, raising taxes on small businesses and forcing them to pay for family and medical leave, preventing employers from holding anti-union meetings, requiring utilities to go carbon-free by 2040, making school breakfasts and lunches free (regardless of income) for all students from K-12, creating a refuge program for transgender people denied care in other states, and a host of other left-leaning legislation.
Nearly every item on the DFL agenda as well as on the Minnesota AFL-CIO agenda passed, prompting Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D-MN) to claim, "Whoa, holy buckets!" at the end of the legislative session and state AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham to declare lawmakers passed "the most pro-worker policy agendas Minnesotans have seen in more than a generation."
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) threw a bill-signing party, complete with the marching band from the University of Minnesota.
What helped push such liberal policies through was a historic $17.5 billion budget surplus lawmakers inherited and then quickly spent with the acute knowledge that having near-perfect conditions to enact such radical changes may not come again for quite some time.
What Republicans are banking on is that the DFL will not be able to sustain its wins going forward and will have to answer to the public for their votes on legislation that was rushed through, not what their constituents had wanted, and legislation that will likely have unintended consequences such as the toll the family and medical leave bill will have on small businesses or the impact that women from other states coming to Minnesota for abortions will have on residents in the state not being able to schedule services for themselves.
Even if Republicans manage to secure the House next year, it doesn't mean legislation passed this year will get reversed or even tweaked. Democrats will still control the Senate, with their elections not coming until 2026, and Walz will likely use his veto power to shoot down any meaningful Republican-led bills that make it to his desk.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Despite this, Hann remains optimistic that a win would be the first step toward becoming a more balanced state.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the DFL, including directly to leadership, but did not hear back.
Catch part three of the Washington Examiner's Minnesota series tomorrow in which we take a look at the unintended consequences of the abortion bill passed this session.
Dave the Diver includes dozens of dishes you can unlock, but only some of them are worth serving up each day. Gathering all the ingredients you need takes a lot of time, so we rounded up the best dishes that balance price, taste, and the ingredients involved.
advertisement
Vegetable Sushi is an essential dish to unlock and level up early. The main reason why is that it doesn't include any fish at all. You'll need 1 Rice, 1 Carrot, and 1 Eggplant to make it, all of which you can grow on your farm. As long as you keep these crops planted, you'll have plenty of ingredients to enhance and serve the meal each day.
You unlock Vegetable Sushi by completing Sammy's VIP request, which eventually leads to unlocking the other parts of the farm. This comes up about halfway through the game, giving you plenty of time to level up the dish before you reach the end.
The Tropical Fish Sushi Set requires a lot of ingredients. You'll need 3 Titan Triggerfish, 3 Harlequin Hind, 3 Coral Trout, and 3 Rice to make it, making it tough to serve and even tougher to enhance. However, these fish are common down to 130 meters, so you'll have a lot of them available, and the Tropical Fish Sushi Set offers better taste and price than serving them individually.
You unlock the Tropical Fish Sushi Set by completing Michael Bang's VIP request about a third of the way through the game. Try to unlock it early so you can use some of your extra meat toward it instead of the individual sushi dishes.
advertisement
Sweet and Sour Stargazer requires four ingredients: 1 Bluespotted Stargazer, 1 Wheat, 1 Egg, and 1 Olive Oil. You can change a decent price for it (390 gold at level 1), but the main reason we recommend it is that it's light on ingredients. You'll get an egg most games, olive oil is common, and although you need to grow Wheat, it's a simple crop to pop in your farm.
You can unlock Sweet and Sour Stargazer by finishing Wang Pang's VIP request, which arrives just after Sammy's.
Seahorse Udon is the best way to use your Long-Snouted Seahorses. You'll catch a lot of Seahorses in the Blue Hole (read our guide on how to catch Seahorses), and although you can serve them up with Seahorse Skewers, Seahorse Udon offers much better taste, and you can sell it for a much higher price.
It requires 3 Long-Snouted Seahorses, 2 Wheat, and 1 Miso, which is a relatively easy list of ingredients considering the taste and price. You can unlock Seahorse Udon by researching it after reaching Platinum level in the Cooksta app.
advertisement
Much like Vegetable Sushi, Tomato Egg Soup is so attractive because you don't need to catch any fish for it. You need two Grade A Eggs, 2 Cherry Tomatoes, and 1 Black Pepper, all of which you can gather without ever going into the Blue Hole.
The main issue is getting the Grade A Eggs because there's an element of randomness if a chicken will lay a Grade A Egg or not. However, if you have a lot of chickens on your farm, you'll get them frequently. You can research Tomato Egg Soup after serving Wang Pang as a VIP.
Summer in Hong Kong marks the beginning of typhoon season. Cue the dense air, heavy storms and rain that can force umbrellas to break under their weight. Despite the intense downpours that typhoons bring, without them, an iconic Hong Kong dish would have never been born.
It's called typhoon shelter crab, and it was created in the 1960s on fishing boats housed in Hong Kong's many typhoon shelters.
The dish features a shell-on crab and a whopping amount of minced garlic, mixed with hints of spring onion, fermented black beans and chilli. The signature taste of the dish is deep-fried garlic with breadcrumbs and spices, with the addition of crab to absorb the intense flavours.
The dish is a signature of the typhoon shelter community, the large population of fishermen and their descendants who lived on boats in the shelters in the mid-20th century and were nicknamed "boat people". The boat population was said to originate from the Tanka native community in Hong Kong – a group of boat dwellers who resided on the southeast Chinese coast. Historically considered outcasts, this ethnic group has their own language, superstitions, wedding rituals and food, including the fiery typhoon shelter flavour.
Author Susan Jung pays tribute to the style of typhoon shelter flavours in her recent cookbook, Kung Pao and Beyond, which showcases fried chicken recipes from East and Southeast Asia. Previously, Jung was the food and wine editor of South China Morning Post (SCMP) for 25 years and had a recipe segment on SCMP's YouTube channel called Home Cooking with Susan Jung.
"Because these 'boat people' were living on small boats that lacked refrigeration, they cooked their catch with ingredients that could be kept at room temperature," said Jung. "In the case of these typhoon shelter dishes, that meant garlic, chillies and black beans."
Typhoon shelter crab stands out when compared to other Cantonese food. While most Cantonese cuisine tends to feature subtle flavours, typhoon shelter crab is one that demands attention, thanks to the mixture of those fragrant pantry ingredients stored onboard.
In the 1980s, the Hong Kong government began to implement stricter licensing rules and offered relocation schemes to move the boat population into public housing. By the 1990s, most of the boat population moved onshore, yet the typhoon shelter flavour lives on in Chinese restaurants. These days, typhoon shelters are still used as mooring spots by boats during storms but are more often used to park the city's luxury yachts.
A woman rows a sampan boat in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay (Credit: Doug Houghton/Alamy)
Visitors to Hong Kong can find the dish in numerous Cantonese restaurants, such as the popular Under Bridge Spicy Crab. However, for a real typhoon shelter experience, Shun Kee is the only remaining restaurant on a sampan boat (a type of Chinese or Malaysian small wooden boat with a shelter) located in the city's iconic Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter. This location once served as a thriving night-time dining destination in the 1950s to 1970s, where more than 300 boats offered food or entertainment.
In Kung Pao and Beyond, Jung plays with the typhoon shelter flavour by combining it with fried chicken. While it's not a pairing that's usually seen in Hong Kong, the flavour is so fragrant and adaptive that it could work with almost every protein.
"It's very garlicky, very pungent, quite spicy, and very strong flavours," she said. "You start eating it and you think [the chef] must use MSG [monosodium glutamate]'." But there's no MSG involved – this dish is just naturally addictive.
Garlic is undoubtedly the star ingredient that makes the dish pop. Jung's recipe calls for 200g of peeled garlic cloves, and she recommends using a food processor to save time mincing. Garlic presses won't work for this recipe, as they'll turn the garlic into a puree.
The recipe begins by coating the chicken wings with flour and then frying them in a wok, says Jung. After the wings are cooked through, they are removed from the oil and a fresh batch of oil is swapped in for toasting and browning the breadcrumbs and garlic. To help brown the mixture, Jung adds a spoonful of sugar while cooking. When the breadcrumb and garlic mixture is toasted, the wings are added back to the wok and everything gets a good stir to help the flavour permeate the meat.
To serve, Jung suggests pairing the fried chicken with rice or congee and stir-fried vegetables. "Because the flavours are so strong, you need something subtle like stir-fried vegetables to balance the flavours," she said. "You don't want to serve it with another dish that's also strongly flavoured."
These crispy chicken wings are stir-fried with garlic, onion and chillies (Credit: Yuki Sugiara)
Typhoon Shelter Wings recipe
By Susan Jung
Serves 4-6
These crispy fried wings are inspired by classic typhoon shelter crab: large, shell-on crab that's been cut into pieces, deep-fried, then stir-fried with loads of garlic, spring onions and chillies. This style of cooking can be used for other ingredients, including prawns, fish, tofu and chicken.
At restaurants, diners choose the crab they want and indicate the spice level: for most people, medium is spicy enough. Select the number of chillies you would like to use depending on your heat tolerance.
1kg (about 2½ lb) mid-joint chicken wings (also called flat wings or wingettes)
1 tsp coarse salt flakes, plus more for seasoning
20g (about 1 tbsp) fermented black beans
1 tbsp soy sauce
10 to 15 dried Tianjin chillies (or other types of small, whole dried chillies), rinsed and dried
120g (4¼oz) potato flour or sweet potato flour, plus more as needed
870ml (3¾ cups) cooking oil
100g (3½oz) panko breadcrumbs
200g (7oz) peeled garlic cloves, roughly chopped
1½ tsp granulated sugar
6-12 red bird's-eye chillies, cut into thin rings and seeded
120g (4¼oz) spring onions, cut into 5cm (2 in) pieces
Method
Step 1
Cut the wings in half lengthwise between the bones, then put the pieces in a bowl. Weigh the wings, then multiply the amount by 0.01 – this is the amount of salt you need. Sprinkle the salt over the wings, then mix well.
Step 2
Briefly rinse the black beans, then put them in a small bowl and add 40ml (2 tbsp + 2 tsp) warm water and the soy sauce. Halve the Tianjin chillies, shake out and discard the seeds, then slice the chillies into thin rings.
Step 3
Dredge the wings in the flour, then lay them on a cooling rack placed over a tray. Leave them to air-dry for at least 10 minutes, then coat them again.
Step 4
Pour 750ml (3¼ cups) of the cooking oil into a medium wok or deep pan, and heat to 160C/320F over medium heat. In 4 to 5 batches, fry the chicken for 3 minutes, then drain on the rack placed over the tray. After frying the last batch, fry the wings again for 1 minute at 170C/340F.
Step 5
Place a large wok over medium heat and add the remaining 120ml (½ cup) of cooking oil to 100C/212F. Add the panko, garlic, sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt. Stir almost constantly until the panko and garlic are pale golden, about 2 to 5 minutes. Mix in the black beans and its steeping water, along with both types of chillies and the spring onions and cook, stirring, for about 2 minutes, or until the wok is dry.
Step 6
Taste for seasonings and add more salt and sugar, if necessary. Add the wings and cook, stirring, for about 3 minutes longer, or until the wings are hot. Pile onto a platter and serve.
Note
The garlic and breadcrumb mixture left over after the wings are eaten can be kept in the fridge for at least a week. It's delicious with rice or congee or sprinkled over scrambled eggs or stir-fried vegetables.
Recipe adapted from Kung Pao & Beyond by Susan Jung (Quadrille, 2023). Photography © Yuki Sugiara.
BBC.com's World's Table "smashes the kitchen ceiling" by changing the way the world thinks about food, through the past, present and future.
---
Join more than three million BBC Travel fans by liking us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter called "The Essential List". A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Culture, Worklife and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Friday.
foody.indah.link With more ways to stream online video than ever before, protecting video continues to be a key issue for copyright holder...
