Uoriki Fresh, Inc. Recalls "Octopus Salad" Because of Possible...
Uoriki Fresh, Inc. (UF) of Secaucus, NJ is recalling its "Octopus Salad", because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (LA1) , an organism which can cause serious and...
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Roman Holiday: Extreme Smog Leads to Ban on Cars in Italy
With its recent spate of pollution red alert days—and residents so desperate for clean air that they're importing cans of it from Canada—China catches plenty of flak for its smoggy conditions. But...
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Amazon UK to expand grocery range as supermarkets look on warily
Amazon is preparing to crank up the pressure on Britain’s struggling supermarkets by dramatically expanding the range of grocery products it sells. Christopher North, the UK boss of the online...
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For Young Farmers, Big Questions Surface at National Gathering
When the days turn cold and dark, farmers celebrate. After months of unrelenting labor, they’re finally able to sit down and relax, spend time with family, and connect and commiserate with their...
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The Year In Food: Artificial Out, Innovation In (And 2 More Trends)
Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Clockwise from left: General Mills, Nestle, Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, Tyson Chicken and Panera, among othet...
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The 10 Biggest U.S. Foodborne Illness Outbreaks of 2015
This year saw dozens of well-publicized foodborne illness outbreaks. While many of them were found to have sickened a handful of individuals, a few stood out as especially wide in scope. Food Safety...
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A New Year’s Resolution “In Defense of Food”
Congratulations, you’ve nearly survived the holidays! The gifts have been unwrapped, lavish meals cooked and eaten, countless cookies consumed, and maybe the family is getting restless after all that...
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For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions
WASHINGTON — The hedge fund magnates Daniel S. Loeb, Louis Moore Bacon and Steven A. Cohen have much in common. They have managed billions of dollars in capital, earning vast fortunes. They have...
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At Señor Frog’s in Times Square, It’s Spring Break Forever
I was having my second Frogasm of the night when dinner got weird. Not that this or any other night at Señor Frog’s in Times Square was ever fully conventional. In point of fact, I had already danced...
View ArticleDear Architects: Sound Matters
We talk about how cities and buildings look. We call places landmarks or eyesores. But we rarely talk about how architecture sounds, aside from when a building or room is noisy. The spaces we design...
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Playing It Safe With Eggs
Fresh eggs must be handled carefully to avoid the possibility of foodborne illness, often called "food poisoning." Even eggs with clean, uncracked shells may occasionally contain bacteria called...
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Milk Pudding with Rose Water Caramel and Figs
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Send your Christmas wish
The UK government is working on a 25-year plan for British food and farming. Its focus is on increasing exports, weakening regulations and intensifying farming. It fails to mention what’s really...
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What the Mast Brothers Scandal Tells Us About Ourselves
In the course of the last few weeks' gleeful public excoriation of Brooklyn chocolate company Mast Brothers, there have been many things said, many things accused, many things denied. Among it all,...
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Sustainable Caviar: The Unicorn of Status Symbol Foods
Like a large-carat diamond ring and expensive champagne in a crystal glass, caviar is a status symbol, signifying that you’ve achieved a level of wealth and success. Unfortunately it’s also a symbol of...
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How the meat industry marks the land
I first came across these feedlots on Google Earth and had no idea what I was seeing. The mass and density of the black and white dots seemed almost microbial. To understand what they were I had to...
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Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development
Most people would agree that it would be better to prevent cancer, if we could, than to treat it once it developed. Yet economic incentives encourage researchers to focus on treatment rather than...
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FDA gives food industry more time to define 'natural'
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to give food industry groups more time to weigh in on what "natural" should denote on product labels. The agency asked the public to comment in...
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OSI Chinese Units and Ten Employees Go On Trial in Shanghai Over Expired Meat
Two China units and ten employees of the Aurora, IL-based OSI Group have gone on trial in Shanghai over food safety violations that could result in fines, jail sentences or both. Chinese prosecutors...
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Sidney Mintz 1922-2015: some personal memories
The anthropologist Sidney Mintz has died at the age of 93. It feels way too soon. I first heard of him in 1985 when I read a review of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. I...
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