Food, Lies, Monsanto — And The Food Safety Working Group

You’ve no doubt heard the term “Shadow Government”. The term implies a sinister and powerful group of anonymous men in dark, smoked-filled rooms who pick up phones and quietly give orders. Maybe the real Shadow Government isn’t calling the shots in some plush back room after all — maybe they’re all out in the open [...]

Dietitian Throws Ball Park Burger a Curve

We kill our fans!

A four-pound, gut-busting burger, consisting of five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili and liberal doses of salsa, sour cream and corn chips – all served on an eight-inch bun – has come under fire from Susan Levin, a staff dietitian for the Washington-based Physicians Committee for [...]

Red Meat in the Hot Seat

Two more studies were just released that puts red meat in the hot seat – again. The National Institutes of Health–AARP Diet and Health Study  reinforces what previous studies had already confirmed.  Too much of a good thing is bad for you.  In this case, it’s red meat.
This is the biggest and highest quality study [...]

Cooked Or Raw: Surprise Health Finding in Veggie Report

I was always under the impression raw vegetables had more nutritive value than cooked vegetables, and that may be true overall. But according to the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, cooked vegetables supply more antioxidants such as carotenoids and ferulic acid than when raw as long as they’re boiled or steamed — it seems [...]

Biohacking Our Way To Food Safety

Imagine that you are a food producer. Let’s say you own a company that produces yogurt. During the production phase something odd happens——all the yogurt your company produced turns a fluorescent green. You’re alarmed, but not because of the fluorescent green yogurt. You’re alarmed because you know the yogurt is contaminated with the toxic chemical [...]

Cast Iron Comeback: Not Your Grandma’s Skillet Anymore

If someone had told me a few years ago that I would soon be cooking with cast iron, I would have looked at them askance.  Me?  Using a heavy, grungy, cast iron skillet like my grandma?  No way!  But today I am proudly pontificating about the merits of cast iron cookware.
Maybe I was watching too [...]

Taking Over the World, One Milk Dud at a Time

Where is my $12 bucket of popcorn?

It’s a very special day.  You walk into the ornate carpeted lobby, marveling at the colorful life-size posters of latex-clad superheroes and computer animated dogs, and give your money to the attendant for your ticket into wonderland.  As you walk towards the entrance to your theater, you stop, drawn [...]

The Dazzling Marketing Power of Online Restaurant Reviews

In the world of popular culture, the adage is “You’re no one unless you’ve been on T.V.” How times have changed. The web has catapulted withdrawn reclusives into to the global spotlight within minutes. And so it goes for restaurants. Online restaurant reviews have crested on the foodie scene making them one of the most [...]

It’s a Great Time to Be a Restaurant Customer

Unfortunately, there’s a dramatic thinning of the herd going on as more and more people opt to eat in as a cheaper way to weather the recession.  This decreased patronage is not the only problem currently plaguing the restaurant industry, however.  There are more restaurants in existence now than ever before, and with fewer available [...]

It’s a Crock – a Crock-Pot Craze, That is

Remember that large electric appliance that looked so revolutionary back in the 70s … the crock-pot? It’s making a comeback. As hard times hit households, more and more crock-pots are coming out of storage because of their ability to make tender, tasty meals out of less expensive cuts of meat. The crock-pot [...]

The Fat Duck Re-opens Under a Veil of Mystery

Fat Duck Reopens

“I am delighted that the health protection agency and the local environmental health office have given us the all clear to open the restaurant,” Fat Duck owner Blumenthal said in a statement. “Obviously we are overjoyed to be able to get back to business as normal.”
Business as normal isn’t quite the expression I [...]

The Truth Behind the Scandal- Angel Food Ministries

On February 25, 2009 two board members of Angel Food Ministries, a Christian nonprofit organization that sells vastly discounted food to the needy, filed a lawsuit against the family that owns the organization, the Wingos, for financial mismanagement.  Two days later, a former employee filed a lawsuit against the youngest Wingo, Andy, claiming a long-term [...]

Diary of a Mad Grocery Shopper

Walmart isn’t always cheapest

Week after week, month after month and I’d finally had it with my wife’s gargantuan grocery bill. Looking back maybe it was the shoes——all the shoes in her closet made me think of Emelda Marcos. Just because a woman has 50 pairs of shoes and three closets full of clothes doesn’t [...]

Farewell to Foodie Friend, Susan Campoy

The Los Angeles restaurant community is abuzz after word came down about the passing of Susan Campoy, chef and owner of Julienne , a French-inspired bistro in San Marino. The 70-year old Campoy passed away at the City of Hope on March 4 after an extended battle with breast cancer.
Campoy inherited her love of [...]

FriendsEAT attends the 2009 International Restaurant & Foodservice Show Of New York

We made it the last day of the show which ran from March 1- March 3.  It is a great event full of insider stuff. Companies show up to showcase products exclusive to restaurants that most people know very little about; the show is strictly trade only.
Tickets started at $30 and went to $70 dollars, [...]

Food is the Focus of Festival of Purim

Food aficionados customarily look forward to March in anticipation of the flavors and frivolity of St. Patrick’s Day, but there is another celebration this month that is symbolically linked to the enjoyment of food as well.  This year, the Jewish festival of Purim begins at sundown on Tuesday, March 9, and Jews from all over [...]

The Marlboro Man Is Dead in Texas

New Law to Ban Smoking in Texas Bars, Workplaces, Sporting events and even out door patios.

12 Tips to Save Money on Home Cooked Meals

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If you’ve been finding yourself short of change lately and don’t know where your next meal is coming from, then perhaps you should look no farther than your own kitchen.  By learning some simple shopping skills, you can bring home bagfuls of healthy, delicious food that can be parlayed into money-saving gourmet meals.  [...]

Calorie Shock – “Read ‘em Before You Eat ‘em”

In February the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected the association’s challenge, but despite this, appeals may continue all the way to the United States Supreme Court.

New York Wine Expo 2009 at the Jacob Javits Center

NY Wine Expo 2009, Tips and Highlights