Corn rose the most allowed by the Chicago Board of Trade as concerns mounted that food inflation will accelerate after the latest U.S. government forecasts on supplies and acreage. Soybeans and wheat also jumped. U.S. corn stockpiles at the beginning of March dropped to 6.52 billion bushels, the lowest for the date since 2007, the [...]
Nearly $10,000 worth of food and supplies owned by the Westford public schools must be thrown away because conditions were found at the storage facility containing the goods were found to be substandard by the town’s Board of Health, officials said. The district has used the barn-like warehouse on Town Farm Road for about 35 [...]
For meat-lovers, the veggie burger was long seen as a sad stand-in that tried to copy the contours and textures of a classic beef patty while falling pathetically short of the pleasure. And for meat-refusers, the veggie burger served as a kind of penitential wafer: You ate this bland, freeze-dried nutrient disc because you had [...]
