No-Knead Bread Recipe
Here is one of the most popular recipes The Times has ever published, courtesy of Jim Lahey, owner of Sullivan Street Bakery. It requires no kneading. It uses no special ingredients, equipment or...
View ArticleHow Suffragists Used Cookbooks As A Recipe For Subversion
Members of the women's suffrage movement prepare to march on New York's Wall Street in 1913, armed with leaflets and slogans demanding the vote for women. Paul Thompson/Getty Images hide caption In the...
View ArticleJust months after Big Pork said it couldn’t be done, Tyson is raising up to a...
Just a few months after pork groups ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal chastising Subway for its call for an antibiotic-free meat supply, the largest meat company in the US is launching an...
View ArticleSustainable Food Trust
On the heels of a very public campaign by animal rights group Wakker Dier, leading Dutch supermarkets have decided to stop selling the most intensive types of factory farmed chicken. The move will have...
View ArticleThe Fight for Equality in Farming: International Women’s Day 2016 #IWD2016
Tuesday, March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD). The theme, “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality,” addresses the continuing injustices faced by women across the globe. Women...
View ArticleHow to embrace power bowls
Au revoir, nicoise. Though salads have long been the lunch choice of the health conscious, the New York Post reported that “hot, skinny people” have moved on to power bowls. What’s a power bowl, you...
View ArticleMeet the Canines Sniffing Out Trouble in Florida's Orange Groves
Mira’s nose is so sensitive that she can smell sick citrus trees, and U.S. orange growers are hoping her super sniffer will help combat one of the biggest threats ever to their crop. The government has...
View ArticleSoft drinks, hard lobbying
Five years ago, when City Council last considered a soda tax, City Hall's corridors swelled with lobbyists bent on stopping it cold. Representatives of the beverage industry, grocery store owners, and...
View ArticleCage-free eggs present food safety challenge in Missouri
A producer of so-called cage-free eggs, which had to suspend operations in December and then recall eggs that were associated with Salmonella Enteritis illnesses in January, has now come in for a...
View ArticlePublic demands what feds suggest: Traceability via food labels
While the Food Safety Modernization Act doesn’t require transparency, it encourages it, but equally important for food manufacturers, consumers are increasingly demanding traceability. “Companies are...
View ArticleQuestlove’s Latest Quest: Bringing Chefs Together
In chunky glasses and a comfy cardigan decorated with a carrot brooch, Questlove looked like your favorite uncle as he worked the crowd at his food salon. The 45-year-old musician and D.J., whose birth...
View ArticleKraft Changed Its Mac and Cheese and Nobody Noticed
When Kraft announced last year it would axe artificial ingredients from its mac and cheese, some consumers expressed concern. Big food companies from Nestle to Taco Bell were axing artificial...
View ArticleWomen of the Amazon Defend Their Homeland Against New Oil Contract on...
Biodiversity Energy Fracking Facebook Twitter E-mail Print LinkedIn Pinterest Google+ StumbleUpon Tumblr Reddit Buffer Email In late January 2016, the government of Ecuador signed a controversial...
View ArticleThe revolution is upon us: Plant-based foods now have a voice on Capitol Hill
This post has been updated. Walk into a supermarket and nearly any food you pick up has at least one trade association behind it, lobbying for its cause in Washington, singing its praises to the media,...
View ArticleSpecialty Commodities, Inc. Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Cashew...
701-282-8222 312-634-8484 View Product Photos Specialty Commodities, Inc., (SCI) of Fargo, N.D., a subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), is recalling a specific lot of dry roasted...
View ArticleFrom Ugly To Hip: Misfit Fruits And Veggies Coming To Whole Foods
You've probably heard of ugly fruits and veggies. They may not be pretty, but they're still perfectly tasty and nutritious. And there are lots of efforts to keep these cosmetically challenged produce...
View ArticleWhat Portland’s Soil Crisis Can Teach Us About Heavy Metals in the Garden
The news that toxic heavy metals have been detected at high levels around two glass factories located in residential neighborhoods has rattled the city of Portland, Oregon. These metals—primarily...
View ArticleWanna see what happens when you rely on the fossil fuel sector and slash...
The state of Louisiana has fallen on hard times, and its situation offers some hard lessons. First, don’t let a right-wing ideologue cut your budget to the bone. Second, don’t hang your whole economy...
View ArticlePhilippines signs new GMO rules
Greenpeace said it will take further action against the new GMO guidelines The first paragraph of the article below threatens a “food crisis” due to the temporary ban on fresh permits for planting or...
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