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OPINION

  What to Expect on '09 Menus 

Beer, BBQ and ramen will tempt your palate next year

Dec 20, 08 6:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Industry publication Flavor & The Menu predicts that casual, comfort flavor cues will drive restaurant trends in 2009; via MarketWatch, what your palate can look forward to:
  • Top culinary trend: Craft beers paired with sophisticated pub food.
  • Top concept trend: Urban barbecue, with more interesting preparations and sides.
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food • beer • restaurant • barbecue • microbrewing • french bistro • ramen noodles

OPINION

Invest in Gardens, Where Yields Make Wall St. Blush 

25-to-1 return includes benefits 'that, literally, money can’t buy,' seed-seller says

Dec 19, 08 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - With the economic outlook darkening, there’s still one good investment that will help you weather the downturn, George Ball writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: a garden. The “astonishing garden-grown return on investment is not modern-day speculative sleight-of-hand, but real, tangible and fungible,” the chairman of the Burpee... More »

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food • gardening • investment • local produce • seeds • financial crisis • economic downturn • home garden • Burpee

Mugabe's Party Feasts
While Zimbabwe Starves

Over 200 farm animals to be consumed during four-day Zanu-PF conference

Dec 19, 08 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - The government of Zimbabwe has planned a decadent feast for delegates from the ruling party while starvation and cholera run rampant in the general population, Time reports. Robert Mugabe and 5,000 Zanu-PF delegates will treat themselves to 124 cattle, 81 goats, and 18 pigs across a four-day conference now... More »

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food • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • famine • starvation • Cholera • Zanu-PF

 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

Michelin Guide Names German Woman
Editor-in-Chief

Foodie bible looks beyond Paris

Dec 17, 08 4:58 PM CST
(Newser) - The prestigious French Michelin restaurant guide today named a German woman editor-in-chief, the Telegraph reports. German cuisine has a stereotype somewhere along the lines of overcooked sausage and sauerkraut, so the news that Juliane Caspar will become the world’s most powerful restaurant reviewer has been greeted with some shock... More »

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food • Germany • France • restaurant criticism • restaurant • Paris • Michelin

Disgusted No More: Britons Eating Brussels Sprouts

Britons say they like the veggie, but many will toss the leftovers

Dec 14, 08 8:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Brussels sprouts were once no-nos at Christmas dinner in Britain, but the veggie is gaining ground as people learn how to cook them, the Telegraph reports. Nearly two-thirds of Britons now like them, although one-third admit they refused to try them as kids, a survey says. Even jokes about the... More »

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food • vegetables • Britain • Christmas

(Newser) - A British vegetarian group is calling on Ikea to stop selling reindeer salami in its in-store cafes, citing cruel hunting practices, the Independent reports. In Sweden, reindeer are herded by snowmobile and helicopter then shipped hundreds of miles to slaughterhouses, which the group says causes “considerable physical and... More »

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food • England • animal cruelty • Ikea • Sweden • vegetarianism • Britain • salami • reindeer

EU Repeals Straight Banana, Curvy Cucumber Laws

Rules set tight standards for produce size, shape, color

Dec 2, 08 11:31 AM CST
(Newser) - The EU took a U-turn on curved cucumbers and bent bananas and voted to repeal strict laws that ban the sale of imperfect produce, the Washington Post reports. Shops are barred from selling cauliflower less than 4.33 inches in diameter and not-green-enough asparagus until July, when such laws—long... More »

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food • law • European Union • produce • fruits and vegetables • regulations

(Newser) - If you want white truffle shavings sprinkled over your Thanksgiving leftovers, the biggest specimen found in Italy this year is up for auction tomorrow. You'll need some big bucks—and perhaps the moxie to outbid David and Victoria Beckham. The delectable fungus weighs about 2½ pounds and is expected to... More »

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food • cooking • Italy • cuisine • Victoria Beckham • auction • chef • David Beckham • truffles • Posh Spice

OPINION

 There's Wild Food Missing Here

American cuisine should include wild game

Nov 26, 08 1:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Mark Twain’s Thanksgiving looked nothing like the meal you’re having tomorrow—or, for that matter, like the one the Pilgrims had with the Wampanoag. The difference? Those bygone American tables would have been filled with wild game, Andrew Beahrs writes in the New York Times. Twain wrote... More »

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food • wildlife • eating • Thanksgiving • Mark Twain

(Newser) - Rich nations are buying up farmland in developing countries and drawing the ire of some critics, the Guardian reports. One UN official said the purchases, designed as a hedge against food shortages, could put poor nations at risk of starving to feed the wealthy. In "this scramble for soil... More »

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food • Africa • globalization • farmland • Third World • food shortage • food security

 Big Choices 
 for Obamas: 
 Chef, Church 

Special interest groups want to pick Obamas' puppy, church, chef

Nov 20, 08 10:06 AM CST
(Newser) - With the incoming first family's private decisions being scrutinized as breathlessly as the president-elect's cabinet picks, you already know about the battle over the puppy, and the private-or-public-school competition. New York reports on three other hotly contested issues:
  • The French-trained chef hired by Laura Bush may be replaced to
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food • Barack Obama • basketball • White House • church • public schools • President Obama • White House dog • Obama family

OPINION

 Widen Palate to 
 Reverse Overfishing 

But all's not lost, if we can limit overfishing

Nov 16, 08 1:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Call him a snob, but Mark Bittman prefers wild fish to their bland, farmed brethren—yet at the rate things are going, “by midcentury, it might be easier to catch our favorite wild fish ourselves rather than buy it in the market,” he writes in the New York ... More »

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food • fish • fishing • Mark Bittman • overfishing

'Roll With a Hole' About as American Now as Apple Pie

Centuries-old bagel so widespread that NYC's best bakers aren't Jewish but Thai

Nov 16, 08 10:02 AM CST
(Newser) - While many cultures claim credit for inventing the bagel, the basic roll-with-a-hole concept is centuries old, Joan Nathan writes in a look at the ubiquitous morning nosh for Slate. The Romans, Egyptians, and Europeans are all said to have savored this culinary curiosity, which was easy to transport and had... More »

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food • New York • Jews • bakery • bagel • Joan Nathan

OPINION

 Forget Politics—Let's Eat! 

What Obama's preferences say about him

Nov 9, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Only time will tell what kind of president Barack Obama turns out to be. But looking at what he likes to eat might give us some clues, food journalist Todd Kliman writes for NPR's Monkey See blog. So what do we know so far? Obama took heat for talking up... More »

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food • Barack Obama • Chicago • Michelle Obama • wine • restaurant • President Obama

 Calorie Counting 
 Makes a Comeback 

Get ready for sticker shock, as nutrition info hits menus

Oct 29, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thanks to new laws, calorie counting is back in vogue and bigger than ever, writes the New York Times. After decades of diets that focused on the balance of fat, protein, and carbs, “More and more, people are looking at calories in, and calories out,” a doc tells... More »

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obesity • food • diet • restaurant • calories • food industry • calorie-posting law

 Puget Sound's Orcas in Trouble 


Oct 25, 08 10:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The orca population in Washington’s Puget Sound is dropping, and scientists think a scarce food supply is to blame, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. A poor year for chinook salmon—and another is in the forecast—forced the killer whales to spend energy searching further afield for food. Two... More »

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food • whale • fat • salmon • Washington • starvation • PCBs • orca • killer whale • Puget Sound

 Trendy Pomegranates 
 Have a Downside, Too 

The trendy fruit has some drawbacks

Oct 22, 08 8:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Those five bottles of pomegranate juice you drink per day to help you live longer? Turns out they could be hurting you, reports the Chicago Tribune. Pomegranates, which have reached “superstar status” because of their alleged health benefits, can interfere with a number of drugs, including Crestor and Lipitor.... More »

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food • cholesterol • blood pressure • fruits and vegetables • healthy eating • cancer diet • grapefruit • trend

 Frog Pizza Storms London 

'The Hopper' has UK animal activists croaking mad

Oct 16, 08 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - London restaurant chain Eco has animal-rights activists hopping mad over its newest pizza, the Sun reports. Called “The Hopper,” the pie contains 8 frogs legs with capers and anchovies. British group Animal Aid is urging a boycott of Eco because harvesters of frogs’ legs usually cut them off... More »

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food • fast food • frogs • pizza • Britain • amphibians

(Newser) - New research takes an accepted truth about obese people and flips it upside down: They may, in fact, get less pleasure out of eating than people of normal weight, the LA Times reports. Researchers found that people who have weaker reward circuitry in the brain tend to overeat. Thus, while... More »

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obesity • food • obesity epidemic • dopamine • overeating • high calorie diet

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