Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham, Wyndham Hotel Group’s extended stay brand, has introduced Homemade @ Hawthorn, a chef-driven in-room cooking program that suggest ingredients for easy-to-make meals in guest’s in-suite kitchens.
Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham tapped Chef Hari Nayak, a New York-based chef, restaurateur, author and culinary consultant, and Chef James Rigato, a former Top Chef competitor and owner of The Root Restaurant & Bar and Mabel Gray in Michigan, to create exclusive flavor-driven recipes designed for hotel living.
Each of the chef-crafted seasonal recipes featured in the program’s e-cookbook is available at www.hawthorn.com/homemade. Currently, the e-cookbook contains fall and winter dishes, and as the seasons change it will update with spring and summer plates. Meals now include sloppy joe tostadas, rigatoni with kale and pecorino, and salad with chickpeas, broccoli slaw and coconut.
A recent survey from Hawthorn Suites uncovered 66% of Americans, including 84% of millennials, agree being able to cook in a hotel room would make them feel more at home when traveling.
What do travelers hunger for most? The same survey found comforting and familiar foods topped the list with 38% of respondents longing for baked goods, followed by pasta (31%) and salad (27%) – all of which can be found in the Homemade @ Hawthorn e-cookbook alongside health-conscious dishes for the 54% of Americans who believe a healthy meal is harder to find when traveling than a room with a view.
The Hawthorn Suites survey also found:
- Across all generations baked goods such as pies and cookies ranked first among all cravings for Millennials (43%), Gen Xers (44%) and Boomers (31%);
- Women wrestle with the good-bad angels on their shoulders: baked goods (41%) and salad (32%) are their go-to choices; and
- Men dive into baked goods (36%) and pasta, such as lasagna or spaghetti (32%).