By Mary Ladd, KQED-TV School is almost back in session, and the consumption and purchase of milk will rise predictably, according to Mike Griffin, the California Pool Manager for Organic Valley. The company is the country’s largest dairy cooperative headquartered in Wisconsin and it recently marked its 25th anniversary. Organic Valley has a substantial number […]
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The 28th annual Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival at Northstar will pair savory adventures with the regional food and wine delicacies. The Sept. 6-8 event includes cooking seminars and demonstrations, culinary competitions, wine tastings, food-themed excursions and more. Events include the Gourmet Marketplace Vendor Fair, Village Wine and Brew Walk, Blazing Pans Mountain […]
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By Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times WASHINGTON — The federal government on Friday set a standard for gluten-free claims on food labels, a step that health officials said would help the three million Americans with celiac disease and bring uniformity to the $4 billion market for gluten-free products. Gluten is a composite of starch and […]
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg U.S. beef production is plunging to a 21-year low after surging feed costs spurred ranchers to cut herds, signaling record prices for consumers and higher costs for buyers from McDonald’s Corp. to Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Production in the U.S. will decline 4.9 percent to 10.93 million metric tons in 2014, […]
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By Allison Aubrey, NPR This is not a detox diet. Nor is it an extreme version of calorie restriction. Nope, the strategy of so-called 5-2 diets is to endure two days a week of mini-fasting. This doesn’t mean starving yourself. Rather, it entails reducing your calorie intake during two days of the week down to […]
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By Peter Andrey Smith, New York Times By midmorning, the smell of hot peanut oil dissipated and inside the tightly sealed laboratory known as Building 51F, a pink hamburger sizzled in a pan over a raging gas flame. Overhead, fans whirred, whisking caustic smoke up through a metallic esophagus of ductwork. Woody Delp, 49, a […]
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By Melissa Clark, Los Angeles Times Ripe summer corn is as sweet as many of the fruits we habitually make into dessert, but rarely do we see it at the end of the meal. This isn’t at all true in Mexico, where corn ice cream is a year-round tradition. Or in Vietnam and Thailand, where […]
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Two new laws that went into effect in Nevada this month are sparking a lot of interest, especially among those involved with the local foods movement. The laws provide farmers, home growers, home cooks and others with increased opportunities to produce and sell their products locally, as well as to hold dinners featuring their homegrown […]
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By Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration proposed sweeping new rules on Friday that would require food importers like Walmart and Cargill to make sure that their foreign growers and processors were following American food safety standards to prevent contamination in an increasingly globalized food supply. About 15 percent […]
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By Stephanie Strom, New York Times ST. HELENA — The chicken thighs, smoked for two hours, then soaked in buttermilk spiked with Crystal hot sauce and dredged in flour, turned a perfect golden brown, full of the promise of succulence and crunch, under the stern watch of Chef H. Alexander Talbot. But not one, alas, […]
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