FURMAN GETS FUNKY WITH FURMAN-TATION STATION AND OTHER NEW DINING OPTIONS
The Furman-tation station’s offerings include sauerkraut, pickled beets, turnips, and kimchi
THE BON APPÉTIT TEAM at Furman University in Greenville, SC, is having way too much fun. This fall they launched several new mini cafés and stations featuring a staggeringly delicious array of food from Carolina farms, ranches, and artisans. Located upstairs from the dining hall, the new Bread and Bowl mini café offers freshly made sandwiches and salads such as the Furman Salad Bowl with local kale, beets, sweet potato, pumpkin seeds, local goat cheese from Split Creek Dairy Farm, red quinoa, black beans, brown-butter bread crunch, and roasted shallot vinaigrette. The new Sweet and Savory creperie offers sweet and savory crepes, with both batters featuring locally grown and milled corn flour from Colonial Milling. In Daniel Dining Hall, the new Pure station offers a changing selection of items made without gluten-containing ingredients, with a dedicated grill, oven, and fryer to minimize any gluten cross-contamination. (Pure also does not use dairy.) Students are lining up for the fried chicken made by Executive Chef Desmond Young using Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free flour for coating. Also in Daniel is the Furman-tation station, a self-serve bar that features house-made fermented items such as pickled mushrooms, pickled local beets, Thai-style pickled local carrots, sauerkraut made with local cabbage, and different spicy kimchis. “One of our
This vegetarian sandwich has spiced and crushed chickpeas, cucumbers, vegetable slaw, cherrypepper relish, spinach, local goat cheese, and tahini vinaigrette
lead cooks, Christina Halstead, has really taken the station and run with it,” says Executive Chef Chris Harris. “She talks to guests three to five times a week about her process and recipes.” Also in 2018, they opened a new all-day breakfast café (the Library Café) featuring teas from Asheville Tea Company just over the state line in North Carolina, including one made from lemon yaupon, the only caffeinated tea plant native to the United States, as well as lots of local goodies such as house-made bagels with sausage and cheese from Green Valley Farm of Pumpkintown, SC. Submitted by Bonnie Powell, Director of Communications
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