Diamond Foods Inc., the food company that makes Pop Secret popcorn and Emerald nuts, said Thursday that it lost $4.3 million in the fiscal third quarter. For the three months that ended April 30, Diamond Food’s net loss amounted to 22 cents per share. That compares with a previous year’s profit of $2.7 million, or [...]
In an ongoing series, BBC News focuses on aspects of life in countries and cities around the world. What may seem ordinary and familiar to the people who live there, can be surprising to those who do not. Most urban Malaysians spend their time indoors, but there is one place they will brave the heat [...]
A butcher shared with me the advice his dairy-farmer father fed him: Stay in the food business and you will always eat. I’ve worked in the food business for a good chunk of my life — first in my parents’ restaurants, then as a food writer and restaurant critic, followed by post-culinary-school stints as a [...]