List of items in HVP Recall
by Antonio on 12/03/10 at 5:49 am
The FDA has compiled a list of the products involved in the 2010 Basic Food Flavors, Inc. HVP (hydrolyzed vegetable protein) recall. We’ll keep you updated as more items come to light. This list was the latest available at the time from the FDA website. We recommend to check FoodSafety.gov often for updates, we are [...]
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It’s hard to believe that the Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery is celebrating 100 years of faithful service to hungry New Yorkers. The Lower East Side bakery that churns out this Jewish delicacy to an adoring cadre of loyal customers is remarkably unchanged from the time it opened at 137 East Houston Street in 1910. It’s [...]
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For those of you interested in breaking the beer drinking tradition on Superbowl Sunday, how about surprising your friends and family with a mixed cocktail. We’ve selected ten entertaining drinks that are fun and simple to prepare. Most of the these drinks go well with pizza, burgers, dogs, and snacks.
Note: One shot equals one ounce. [...]
Top 10 Romantic Restaurants in the World
When you’re in love, every arrived destination becomes a magical palace — a moment transfixed in time. The sky, the smells, the streets, the faces, all ever the more vivid when you’re intoxicated and filled with that exciting and mysterious quality known as romance. From Moscow to Paris, you’ll always remember your dining experience at [...]
Full StoryThirty-Two Chefs at Taste of the NFL
Since 1992, Taste of the NFL has staged a huge food event held the day before the Super Bowl game in the city playing host to the Big Game. Chefs from each of the 32 cities with NFL teams prepare and serve dishes to customers who pay $500 a ticket. Proceeds support food banks in [...]
Full StoryBrews for a Super Bowl Sunday Celebration
You have the menu planned for game day. Wings, pizza, chili, burgers, ribs, plus plenty of chips, dips and salsa. You may even have some regional specialties, depending on which team is your favorite. (Breaded pork tenderloins if you’re an Indianapolis Colts fan, and jambalaya if you’re hoping for a New Orleans Saints win.) The only [...]
Full StoryCan Resurrection Prevent Hangovers?
If you could prevent a hangover, would you start your night with a decaffeinated, non-alcoholic, all natural, herbal-based and lightly carbonated beverage that promises to prevent those pounding headaches and queasy-stomach feelings? Would you believe such a product works?
The manufacturers of Resurrection, the anti-hangover drink, guarantees that starting off with a can of their beverage, [...]
McDonald’s Supports Eating Local with McItaly Burgers
In an effort to promote the use of locally procured ingredients, McDonald’s franchises in Italy have rolled out a new burger and salad line called the “McItaly.” Containing two burger variations and one salad, the new menu items have the blessing of the Italian government and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is hoping that the [...]
Full StoryRishi Blends up Award Winning Teas
If you’re a tea lover, it will come as no surprise that for the past 1,000 years, tea has been the most heavily consumed beverage, next to water. Although you can find common black tea in grocery stores all across America, the mass-produced varieties do not possess the quality that is exhibited by specialty tea [...]
Full StoryNo. 1 Most Popular Super Bowl Food – You’ll be Amazed
The National Chicken Council reports that Super Bowl weekend is decidedly the biggest time of the year for wings. Based on their statistical data, more than 1 billion wing portions will be consumed during Super Bowl weekend, or more than 90 million pounds of wings. (Check out are tangy, tantalizing wing recipes by clicking here). [...]
Full StoryA Grandmother’s Food Wisdom in Michael Pollan’s New Book
Last year Michael Pollan, one of the country’s leading experts on food, summoned the public’s wisdom in gathering food rules for eating well. “My premise,” said Pollan, “is that culture has a lot to teach us about how to choose, prepare and eat food, and that this wisdom is worth collecting and preserving before it [...]
Full StoryGrowlers are Newest Drinking Accessory
Growlers are back in style after being a forgotten drinking accessory for more than a century. These gallon containers have been around since the late 1800s, a way to carry home freshly made beer from the local brewery or pub.
Most growlers are 64-ounce containers made specifically for transporting specialty brews that aren’t available in commercially produced cans or bottles. In [...]
Who are Super Bowl Beer Drinkers?
There’s a serious dilemma brewing that needs to be resolved soon – before next Sunday!
The big question facing Super Bowl party hosts is whether they should buy domestic beer, imported beer or craft microbrews for their guests’ drinking pleasure.
Market research firm Mintel provides the latest stats on beer drinkers. They analyzed America’s preferences and came up with [...]
In Search of Sancocho
If trying new foods and recipes is one of your New Year’s resolutions, then this cold winter weather is perfect for cooking a large pot of sancocho.
If you’ve never heard of sancocho, this is your opportunity to find out more about the delicious and hearty concoction that is a staple in Latin American homes. Sancocho is not [...]
Top Chef Alum Teams up for Haitian Benefit
Haitian born chef Ron Duprat, an alum from Bravo’s popular Top Chef series, is teaming up with four of his former contestants and competitors to organize a benefit to help the people of Haiti, who are still suffering the ravages of the massive earthquake that struck more than two weeks ago.
Duprat has enlisted the help [...]
Top 10 Gourmet Beers for Superbowl Sunday
Today’s modern breweries brew literally hundreds of different types beers, including lagers, ales, dark beers, wheat beers, Lambics, and stouts. Most breweries continue to use traditional brewing techniques, and avoid newer technology in favor of historical brewing methods to maintain quality. In case you were entertaining the idea of going all out this Superbowl Sunday, [...]
Full StoryFavela Cubana Opens in NYC
Favela Cubana is one of the newest restaurants to open in NYC, we recently attended one of their press diners and were glad we did so.
Marco Britti, the restaurant’s owner is Italian ans has not a drop Cuban or Brazilian blood. What he lacks in genetics he makes up for with passion. Britti has lived [...]
Ten Top Rib Recipes for your Super Bowl Soiree
Ribs rank right up there as some of America’s favorite party and picnic foods. Equally great on the grill as they are simmered on a stovetop, rib lovers are passionate when it comes to defending which types of ribs are the best.
Ribs come in a variety of cuts, including substantial and meaty beef ribs and delicate and [...]
Swapping Recess and Lunch Periods Helps Child Nutrition
School systems across the country are making a switch that is yielding remarkable results. By scheduling the recess period before lunch instead of afterwards, administrators discovered that children are eating more of their lunch and wasting less food. They also noticed other behavioral changes, including a better attention span when they get back into the classroom after [...]
Full StoryMOOMilk Rises from Ashes of Corporate Beast
The birth of MOOMilk stems from an organic farmers’ David and Goliath triumph over the corporate beast. Last February, H.P. Hood Inc. stopped buying organic milk from 10 farmers that had made substantial investments in their farms to convert to organic, and had contracts with H.P. Hood, who cited a soft organic market, a depressed [...]
Full StoryWhopper, Fries and a Beer
In an attempt to boost sales and enter the casual sit down dining niche, Burger King will try and harness the twenty-something drinking crowd by opening what it calls “The Whopper Bar” in Miami Beach, Florida in mid-February. “Burger King is trying to grow up with its customers and remain relevant when they reach drinking [...]
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