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Restaurant Calorie Shock to go Nationwide

Beginning in 2011, restaurant chains with 20 or more retail stores will be required to disclose menu calorie counts on their food items, as well as a posted reminder of the Agriculture Department’s recommended 2,000-calorie daily intake. Also required are labels on food items in vending machines, drive-through restaurants, food coupons, buffets, and cocktail drink […]

Engineered Nanomaterials in our Food Supply are Here to Stay

Last year, a Friends of the Earth report disclosed that untested nanotechnology is being used in more than 100 food products, food packaging and contact materials currently on the shelf without warning or FDA testing. Supermarkets currently stock an unknown amount of nano-food products, and there is no mandatory product labeling requirement in the U.S. […]

Future Food – is it a Lab or a Kitchen?

Is it a science show? No it’s not. It’s actually a cooking show. Starting March 30, the chefs of tomorrow, Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche, will take on a weekly challenge to make the impossible possible – healthy junk food, seafood without fish, even edible product packaging. Extreme cuisine at its finest will be showcased […]

Save the Bees, Save the World

It was late 2006 when beekeepers first reported losses of 30-90 percent of their hives. The honey, queens and immature bees were left, but the rest of the bees were mysteriously missing. Dead bodies littering their houses would have been a more welcome sight at this point, but they went all Amelia Earhart on us […]

Sushi Samba Takes Blue Fin Tuna Off Its Menu

We love when restaurants do the right thing. We just heard that Sushi Samba has voluntarily taken blue fin tuna off its menus. Why are we so happy? Well, as huge sushi fans we do not want to see this fish become extinct.  Blue fin tuna is seriously over fished throughout the world and in […]

Jesus’ Last Supper – Supersized

It’s Lent, perfect time to talk about Jesus. While he was alive, he increased five loaves of bread and two fishes so that it fed more than five thousand men. More than two millennia later, It seems as though he is performing miracles beyond his grave, or should I say beyond his resurrection. The food […]

How the Stock Market Affects Food Prices

Recently, the world as we know it fell into chaos when companies folded, hundreds lost their jobs and most of the world was thrown into recession. These were all caused by a domino effect that started when stock prices plummeted. Most of us were in the dark as to how this happened. So maybe the […]

Interview with Chef and Blogger Kiki Homer

Chef Christine (Kiki) Homer serves up her dishes at Mas(farmhouse stage) where the food is made in a modern French style.  Kiki honors classical technique and draws from regional American foods to create a simple, yet elegant new American cuisine. We spoke to her recently because we love her focus on healthy yet tasteful eating. […]

Women do Belong in the Kitchen: the Rise of Women Chefs

Traditionally, It has always been the role of the women to toil in the kitchen and provide sustenance for the family, so you’d think that professionally, this should be a role that we easily dominate. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Perhaps it’s not so much the role as the fact that women have always […]

Top 20 Outrageous Foods

For those living in poor regions or less developed countries, food choices may be influenced more by economics than taste preference. Additionally, some culinary preferences are based on peculiar cultural beliefs related to superior health and sexual prowess. Whatever the reason, bizarre foods and bizarre food eating has been popularized by Andrew Zimmern’s documentary-styled travel […]

Interview with Chef Charlie Levitz of Chair 6

  Anyone who has heard of Lake Placid will automatically think of skiing, medals and outdoor sports. Those who know Lake Placid will think of amazing food. This is specially true if they’ve eaten at Chef Charlie Levitz’s restaurant Chair 6. If you are in the area, make sure to drop by, their breakfasts are to […]

Food Co. wishes their salmonella tainted flavor enhancer would just “go away”

asic Food Flavors, the company that knowingly permitted the salmonella tainted flavor enhancer (HVP) found in 159 recalled products (to date), has issued a comment denying responsibility. Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) is an MSG-like flavor enhancer that is mixed in with other spices, and added to thousands of processed foods, including chips, dip mixes, salad […]

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Has Begun

Jamie Oliver, who first crossed our consciousness as the Naked Chef, has taken his commitment to simple, unpretentious, healthy food to a whole new level by embarking on what is arguably an ambitious endeavor – change America’s unhealthy eating habits. Jamie has always been at war with unhealthy fare and believes that cooking is a […]

New York Restaurants to be Graded for Cleanliness

On Tuesday, the New York City Board of Health voted, with 6-to-2 vote with one abstention, to publicly display its nearly 25,000 restaurants’ health inspection ratings. Starting July 2010, customers will not have to check online but be able to see the restaurants’ prominently displayed inspection grades – a blue A, a green B or […]

Misleading labeling practices, snake oil salesmen, and the FDA

In 1985, Kellogg filed a “citizens’ petition”with the FDA arguing on behalf of a legal basis for their arrangement with the National Cancer Institute to endorse a health claim for All-Bran cereal — a cardboard box full of chemicals and processed bran. Kellogg argued that First Amendment guarantees of commercial free speech establish companies’ rights […]

2010 James Beard Award Finalists

Chef around the world rejoice (or wince), the finalists for the 2010 James Beard Awards has finally been annouced.  Established in 1990, The James Beard Foundation awards excellence in chefs, restaurants, books, journalism, broadcast media, and restaurant design and graphics, as well as for other special achievements. Winner will be announced on May 3rd in New […]

Why a Salad Costs More Than a Big Mac

So you finally resolved to eat healthy. Maybe you read our article about how fast food is the fast track to death or you just want to shed some pounds because you’re going to be a bridesmaid for your best friend’s wedding four months from now. You decide to order a healthy green salad, only […]

Restaurant Serving Whale Meat Closes

You may have heard about The Hump. This Santa Monica restaurant was recently caught serving whale sushi in an undercover operation set up by the people behind “The Cove“. According to the restaurant’s website, it has decided to punish itself for its actions. Could this be a cheap publicity stunt to try to get lesser punishment […]

New Ultra HIV Drug From Bananas

According to a University of Michigan Medical School study, a powerful new HIV inhibitor derived from bananas may unleash an array of novel treatments to prevent sexual transmission of HIV. Researchers developed a method to isolate BanLec, the lectin — any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies — found in bananas; BanLec […]

NESsT and Wines of Chile Coordinate Efforts to Aid Earthquake Victims

(Santiago)”NESsT, a nonprofit organization founded in Chile in 1999, and Wines of Chile (WoC), the Chilean wine industry Trade Association committed to promoting Chilean wines around the world, announce an initiative to raise funds to assist families living in Chile’s wine regions. Through NESsT’s “Levantando Chile Fund,” established in the wake of Chile’s devastating earthquake, […]

Casting call for America’s Next Great Restaurant

Do you have an idea for America’s next great restaurant? Are you sitting on a billion dollar concept? If you think your restaurant idea has what it takes to go national and bring in millions of hungry Americans but you have no idea where to start, no capital an no rich uncle to lend you […]

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