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Meet your foods maker? »

Unless you’re grinding peanuts into butter and emulsifying egg yolks into mayonnaise at home, Einav Gefen has probably touched your food in some way. Since 2008, 39-year-old Gefen has acted…

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College stimulates the budding food connoisseur »

Not all college students are willing to live on cold pizza, ramen noodles and greasy takeout. So to satisfy palates that lean more gourmet than grub, Latto and several friends…

May 9 2011 / No Comment / Read More »
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Expired food routed from schools to prisons »

The state Department of Education recently donated thousands of cases of out-of-date food from the school lunch program to state prisons and a county jail, documents show. The food —…

Apr 12 2011 / No Comment / Read More »
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Chicago schools ban homemade lunches »

At Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in…

Apr 10 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »

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NYC Chef/Artist featured in HBO documentary »

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“I’m not a nutcase. I’m just an artist,” says Paul Liebrandt at the beginning of A Matter of Taste, director Sally…

Jun 14 2011 / No Comment / Read More »

Pairing Wine with Street Food »

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A Manhattan food truck now offers beer, wine and cocktails. The Wall Street Journal says a street vendor called the…

Jun 11 2011 / No Comment / Read More »

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Listen: Hillary Clinton echoes the gravity of food price instability »

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The UN is urging action be taken to tackle the problem of global food shortages and rising food prices, which caused turmoil during 2007 and 2008. The call has come from Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Secretary of State, who addressed a meeting of the…

May 11 2011 / No Comment / Read More »

US Shifts to Supply Healthier Food Aid to the World »

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Recommendations for making U.S. food aid more nutritious call for significant changes in the content of foods the United States delivers to the world’s hungry. The United States is the world’s largest supplier of food aid, reaching 55 million people in 46 countries last year,…

Apr 27 2011 / No Comment / Read More »

Rising food prices. Much ado about nothing? »

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The media love to talk about rising prices on food, and other staples of an average American’s everyday life. The thought of a staple rising by five cents can send everyone into a tizzy, proclaiming the death of the middle class, a new recession or…

Apr 19 2011 / No Comment / Read More »
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Wholesale food prices slowed down in May »

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Wholesale prices rose at the slowest pace in 10 months in May, as food costs fell and gas prices rose by the smallest amount in…

Jun 14 2011 / No Comment / Read More »
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Sprouts prove to be misleading

Sprouts are a fixture of salad bars and the epitome of health food to many people. But the reality can be very different. As a horrified Europe learned over the past month, sprouts are a high-risk…

Jun 11 2011 / Read More »
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STUDY: ‘Organic’ foods seem more tasty

An “organic” label on foods is enough to make people believe the food items are healthier and tastier, new research suggests. The study included 144 volunteers who were asked to compare what they believed were conventionally…

Apr 10 2011 / Read More »
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Potato lobbyists push back on school food choices

Some student food favorites are under attack in Washington. The Agriculture Department has released new standards for school nutrition and published them for public comment. Speaking right up are lobbyists for the food industry. The standards,…

Jun 11 2011 / Read More »
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USDA grants Monsanto Power To Police Itself

Monsanto will likely be allowed to conduct its own environmental studies as part of a two-year USDA experiment. But there is no good that can possibly come of an experiment where the company behind nearly every…

Apr 26 2011 / Read More »
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Mexican Blueberries prove to be Superior

The first analysis of the healthful antioxidant content of blueberries that grow wild in Mexico, Central and South America concludes that some of these fruits have even more healthful antioxidants than the blueberries — already renowned…

Apr 27 2011 / Read More »
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Rising Food Prices Stimulate Uganda Protests

Riots broke out in downtown Kampala on Thursday as another round of street demonstrations over commodity prices spread after a leading opposition politician was arrested for the third time in two weeks, significantly heightening tensions here.…

Apr 22 2011 / Read More »
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Europe’s E. coli outbreak might prompt new food safety law in US

Scientists on Friday blamed contaminated vegetable sprouts for the E. coli outbreak that began in northern Germany and that public health officials say has killed 31 people and sickened nearly 3,100 others throughout Europe. The deadly…

Jun 11 2011 / Read More »
The Pacific Food-aid

North Korea’s pleas for food aid met with suspicion

The United Nations is warning that 6 million North Koreans — a quarter of the population — could be at risk of starvation. It’s warning of a likely humanitarian crisis, with North Korea’s public distribution system…

Apr 15 2011 / Read More »

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