Passport to Dining returns to the North Shore on Nov. 14. The popular social gathering features food and beverage tastings from up to 35 local restaurants, caterers, breweries, wineries and distilleries. Tickets are $35 in advance and $45 day of event. For info and to buy tickets, call (530) 546.9000. The 6–9pm is at the […]
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By Kiera Butler, Mother Jones A full third of the world’s food is wasted. According to a report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, discarded food accounts for a staggering amount of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, if food waste was a country, its 3.3 gigatonnes of emissions would make it the third […]
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By Jan Hoffman, New York Times When Vinnie Richichi started watching the Pittsburgh Steelers’ home opener against the Tennessee Titans a week ago, he was feeling great. After all, the Steelers had won their first home game six years in a row. Then things indeed went south. “The worse they looked, the more I kept […]
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The 28th annual Autumn Food and Wine Festival ended Sept. 8 with more than 30 restaurants, wineries, brewers and distillers from across the region pouring more than 90 wines poured and cooking an assortment of food dishes as diverse as octopus soppressatta, rabbit and wild boar roulade and elk patty melts. The winners are: Blind […]
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By Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it had found no evidence that current levels of arsenic in rice pose an immediate health risk. The finding comes two months after the agency proposed new limits on arsenic in apple juice. A public outcry had caused the […]
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By Maria Godoy, NPR Here’s a bit of news that might make you drop that chicken nugget midbite. Just before the start of Labor Day weekend, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly announced that it was ending a ban on processed chicken imports from China. The kicker: These products can now be sold in the […]
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By Blair Anthony Robertson, Sacramento Bee The folks at highly regarded Russian River Brewing stress one thing that may surprise you: freshness. It’s practically a mantra for this famed Santa Rosa brewery. They want you to enjoy their Pliny the Elder, a world-class double India Pale Ale, as soon as possible. It’s not something to […]
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Publisher’s note: The following is California Gov. Jerry Brown’s proclamation declaring September California Wine Month. By Jerry Brown The first vineyard in Spanish California was not planted within the area that would become our state, but rather at the short-lived Misión San Bruno in what is now the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The […]
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By Sarah Nassauer, Wall Street Journal These are dark days for fans of regular yogurt. The creamy snack is being edged out on grocery store shelves by its thicker, tarter, higher-protein sibling, Greek yogurt. Over a third of the yogurt in a typical grocery store is now Greek, in varieties from low-fat to fruit-on-the-bottom to […]
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By Russ Parson, Los Angeles Times Sustainable seafood is one of the big buzzwords in food these days. And it is important: So many of our most popular fish are close to being overfished. The trick is expanding our palates, finding fish that we aren’t already loving to death. But finding alternatives is daunting – […]
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