Can 7 Eleven Win the Hearts and Minds...
09.30.09, Time
It's just before noon on a Tuesday, and despite the rain, a few dozen schoolgirls in white uniforms and navy cardigans are milling about the 7-Eleven on Tong Chong Gai, a bustling Hong Kong side street of restaurants and...
Michael Chiarello is a master of 'soc...
09.30.09, Chicago Sun-Times
YOUNTVILLE, CALIF. -- When you sit down to dinner at master chef Michael Chiarello's year-old Bottega restaurant, you're not only in for an amazing culinary adventure, but the food booster also hopes he will fulfill his goal of "being your manager of social...
Recession? Not at Poggio
09.29.09, Food Gal
My husband and I play this game whenever we go out to eat somewhere new. If the place is a true delight from food to ambience to prices, we will invariably turn to one another and say, If we lived here, this would be our neighborhood...
Austria pushes its wines for the flav...
09.29.09, The Sacramento Bee
The full-page advertisement on the back cover of the August issue of Sommelier Journal is strikingly simple. A glass of golden white wine sits against a white background above a piece of fish roe-coated California inside-out sushi...
Author John T. Edge studies cultural ...
09.27.09, The News-Gazette.com
John T. Edge is not just a food writer, in spite of the six books he has penned on food. Jack Pendarvis, author of "Awesome," said, "To call John T. Edge a food writer is like saying Herman Melville wrote booklets about...
Revamping the School Lunch Program
09.25.09, The Paramus Post
As our children go back to school, many parents grow increasingly concerned about the school lunch program. Most school lunches cost between $2.
Doughnut industry bites into Asia
09.25.09, Food24.com
Some of the world's top doughnut chains are rolling into China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan and elsewhere in the region as Asians embrace the Western fast food fad.
Book stirs food debate in Dairyland
09.24.09, CNBC
MADISON, Wis. - One best-selling book advocating fresh, local foods is shaking up America's Dairyland. Students across University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus, organic grocers, scientists, and dairy farmers large and small have jumped into the debate on how food is produced and...
Gourmet Mag Names Top 8 LA Food Truck...
09.23.09, Laist
Photo by RebelSciences [Kwasi B] via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr 2009-09-23 20:30:41 Gourmet Mag Names Top 8 LA Food Trucks...
She cooked local before local was cool
09.23.09, Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Joy Marr laughs to think that the way she has been cooking for years is now the big trend. "Years ago, I could only afford to buy local," said Marr, a Fayette County caterer whose varied background includes longtime stints as a whitewater rafting guide, owner of an...
Tomato outbreak is reminder to follow...
06.9.08, Calibre Macro World
MEGAN K. SCOTTAssociated Press Writer A salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes serves as a reminder to take extra care with summer fruits and...