Crop To Cuisine
Nation Basil-DM-leaves-top

Basil fungus costly for farmers »

A fungus spreading among the nation’s basil crop may leave lovers of Italian and Thai food feeling a bit bland. Basil downy mildew surfaced in the U.S. around 2007, and…

Jul 26 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
Sporting arens

Health Dept. reveals sporting venues unfit to serve food »

ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” reviewed health department inspection reports for food and beverage outlets at all 107 North American arenas and stadiums that were home to Major League Baseball, National…

Jul 25 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
delayed food bill

Stalled food safety legislation leaves a bitter taste for some more than others »

Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) sent a sharply worded letter Friday to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), accusing her of holding up Senate action on a landmark food safety bill that easily…

Jul 23 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
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USDA official clears her name amidst race, politics and media »

Two days after Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign from the Agriculture Department, she’s been offered a new job there. It’s a labyrinthine story involving race, politics and the role…

Jul 23 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
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Hormel Foods praised for Animal Welfare Practices »

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., professor of animal science at Colorado State University, says the recently opened hog holding facility at the Hormel Foods Corporation Austin (Minn.) Plant is “as good as it…

Jul 21 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
Sound Bites: July 5th, 2010

James McWilliams - Beyond The Barcode

If you’re interested in starting an angry debate, this is the right question to ask.  But if you’re

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Dov Hirsch - Conscious Coffees

[tab:about dov] Hailing from Colorado, by way of California, Florida & Washington, D.C., Dov has

Dov Hirsch - Conscious Coffees Dov Hirsch - Conscious Coffees

Carol O'Meara - Gardening After Five

[tab:about carol] Carol is a longtime lover of all things outside. She is a Master Gardener,Horticulturalist

Carol O'Meara - Gardening After Five Carol O'Meara - Gardening After Five

Introducing the C2C iPhone App!

Food, Drink and Culture

Health Tip: Foods to avoid before bedtime »

sleep food

It turns out science has yet to find a magical food that can send us right to slumberland. “The bad…

Jul 29 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Summertime Chicken uncovered »

fried-chicken

Summer just isn’t quite summer without some chicken. Its smell, its taste, its texture, all combine to create a perfect…

Jul 27 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Egyptian-Asian fusion debuts in Sonoma »

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If you happen to be driving into Geyserville, you might notice a new addition to the landscape – a life-size…

Jul 23 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

SPECIALS

World

U.N. Deals With Alleged Somali Food Distribution ‘Cartel’ »

somali cartel

On March 10, 2010, the same day it was slammed in a report to the United Nations for “irregular” procedures in supplying food to war-ravaged Somalia — the embattled World Food Program promised it “would not engage in any new work” with three Somali food distributors…

Jul 23 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Study: Cooked food helped humans evolve bigger brains »

Brain

Scientists have suggested that cooked food is the reason behind humans’ big brains. According to one controversial evolutionary theory, early humans developed a taste for cooked food around 2 million years ago, and this set in motion a series of changes that made us utterly…

Jul 17 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

World Cup 2010: If Football Were Food »

soccer food

At the check-out counter in the new Nature’s Basket delicatessen in Defence Colony, New Delhi, there is a little card marked: FIFA World Cup Recipes. Presumably they are dishes designed to be eaten while watching a game. One of them is called “spicy onion salad…

Jul 6 2010 / 1 Comment / Read More »
The MARKET

Hoarding: Cornering the chocolate market »

CocoaCultivation

In a stroke, a hedge fund manager here named Anthony Ward has all but cornered the market in cocoa. By one estimate, he has bought…

Jul 27 2010 / No Comment / Read More »
Food Safety hand_washing

NYC implements letter grades for food safety at restaurants

NY City restaurants soon will share some common ground — a letter-based A, B or C — grading system aimed at informing diners about cleanliness and food safety. And it has some restaurateurs worried that restaurants…

Jul 27 2010 / Read More »
Sustainability Four Fish

The Future of the Last Wild Food

The fish are dying. Half popular history, half environmental manifesto, Greenberg’s book exposes the dire straits of our favorite seafood. Solving the problem means more than just skipping the tuna sashimi. It’s going to take big…

Jul 19 2010 / Read More »
Health chapati

Improving nutrition through ethanol

Food scientists want to enlist a corn ethanol byproduct commonly used as cattle feed in the fight against world hunger. South Dakota State University researchers have been cooking up versions of Asian flatbreads that are higher…

Jul 27 2010 / Read More »
Policy Health Marketing

Deceptive health marketing continues to take fire

This week saw two actions taken against health claims by large food companies.…

Jul 24 2010 / Read More »
Americas Food imports

In the global grocery store, Cuba is shopping around

U.S. food sales to Cuba fell by 35 percent from January through May compared with the same period in 2009, as the cash-strapped nation cut imports and bought from countries offering credit, a U.S.-based trade group…

Jul 27 2010 / Read More »
Africa Africa food crisis

African food crisis grows

U.N. officials are pleading for immediate economic assistance for four African countries where people are facing malnutrition in the wake of a drought last year. The coming weeks ahead will be the toughest for these countries…

Jul 20 2010 / Read More »
Europe Prison-cafeteria-JCR.jpg

British prison governor apologises for non-halal food

A prison governor has apologised to Muslim inmates after they were served non-halal burgers. A number of Muslim inmates at HMP Ford, an open prison in West Sussex, are claiming they were served pork burgers by…

Jul 27 2010 / Read More »
The Pacific A-Malnourished-North-Kore-006

North Korea facing health and food crisis, says Amnesty International

A desperate picture of the health of North Korea’s population is painted by a report describing a country of stunted children, where the hungry eat poisonous plants and pigfeed, amputations are conducted without anaesthetic and doctors are…

Jul 15 2010 / Read More »

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