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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: breakfast

breakfast stories: 8 news summaries

 Oatmeal Gets
 Upscale Reheat 

Cheap, healthy breakfast an easy sell for chain stores

Dec 18, 08 3:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Oatmeal is getting a trendy makeover, the Wall Street Journal reports. Drawn to the modest meal by its cheap, healthy, and long-lasting ingredients, smoothie chain Jamba Juice added oatmeal to its Chicago menus today before rolling it out across the US in January, while Starbucks began offering the breakfast classic... More »

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food • Starbucks • business • breakfast • Jamba Juice • oatmeal

OPINION

 How Cereal Shaped America 

Charting the evolution and influence of the grain-based breakfast

Dec 14, 08 10:01 AM CST
(Newser) - We might be eating hockey pucks for breakfast if a 19th-century kitchen accident hadn’t turned John Kellogg’s “barely edible” biscuits into today’s far-tastier flakes, Ian Lender writes in Mental Floss. “The cereal flake is the perfect consumer product,” he says, looking at how cereal... More »

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advertising • Kellogg • cereal • pop culture • culture • breakfast

GLOSSIES

 Wine for Breakfast? 
 A Fan Makes His Case  

Perhaps a glass of Merlot should replace your cup of coffee in the morning

Oct 16, 08 4:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The eggs are scrambling, the bacon is sizzling, the toast is, well, toasting. So kick back and pour yourself a glass of red zinfandel, writes Ryan D'Agostino in Esquire. This isn't some sophomore-year-of-college attempt to undo the excesses of the night before, but rather an innovative approach to the... More »

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wine • red wine • breakfast • Esquire

 Starbucks' Oatmeal 
 Is the New McMuffin 

Starbucks makes comfort food trendy

Oct 14, 08 7:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mushy breakfast you pushed away as a child has become Starbucks' most successful food launch ever—knocking reduced-fat coffeecake to No. 2 on the best-sellers chart, Advertising Age reports. Oatmeal heads up a line of healthier breakfast options the chain introduced in September. The steamy offering, which comes with... More »

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Starbucks • fast food • healthy eating • breakfast • trend

Eight Terrible, Tasty Ways to
Start the Day

Worst breakfasts include 'stacked and stuffed hotcakes'

Sep 25, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Breakfast isn’t just the most important meal of the day—for many Americans, it’s the most fattening. The worst breakfast in the nation, nutritionally speaking, is the Stacked and Stuffed Caramel Banana Pecan Hotcakes at Bob Evans, experts tell MSNBC. Here are some other bad breakfast foods:
... More »

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health • diet • breakfast • IHOP

 McMuffin Man Dead at 89 

Herb Peterson invented fast-food breakfast in a sandwich

Mar 27, 08 2:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The inventor of the Egg McMuffin has died in his Southern California home at the age of 89,  AP reports. Herb Peterson began working with McDonald's in the advertising department, and later switched to the hands-on side of the business, owning six restaurants in the Santa Barbara area. Peterson,... More »

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McDonald's • obituary • fast food • Santa Barbara • breakfast • invention • breakfast sandwiches

Eating Breakfast Helps Keep Teens Slim

Skipping morning meal hurts rather than helps, new study shows

Mar 3, 08 5:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Eating breakfast helps keep teens slim and active, says a new study. Scientists tracked 2,216 teens over 5 years and found body-mass index lower in kids who consistently ate a morning meal, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. "Although adolescents may think that skipping breakfast seems like a... More »

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obesity • breakfast

Market Forces Conspire Against English Breakfast

Cost of traditional meal soars with grain prices

Sep 14, 07 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Soaring wheat prices are rippling across the British economy and hitting hard in a very important place: the kitchen. The cost of a traditional full English breakfast is on the rise, reports the Times of London, thanks in large part to the price of the grain, which is integral not... More »

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milk • eggs • wheat • shortage • Britain • groceries • grain • English breakfast • breakfast

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