Archive for the 'Food News' Category

Five Historic Barns Selected in Campbell Soup Company’s Help Grow Your Soup Program

CAMDEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Barns are a cornerstone of the American farm and a symbol of the country’s essential agriculture industry. This spring, celebrating the company’s Help Grow Your Soupâ„¢ program, Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB), the National FFA Organization (formerly Future Farmers of America) and the National FFA Alumni Association will preserve and renovate five notable [...]

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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Picante sauces

By Food Editor Laurin Stamm
With busy school schedules and after-school activities, family life these days can become an even bigger balancing act than ordinary. Parents now face less time to get dinner on the table and the same old meals easily become routine. And before you know it, you’re stuck in a cooking rut.
To get [...]

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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Can delicious crepes create a buckwheat revival?

My love for buckwheat first blossomed in the Soba-ya shops of Japan. Years later, that love was rekindled on the sidewalks of Paris eating Galletes de Sarrasin, or Breton-style savory buckwheat crepes, washed down with hard apple cider in stoneware cups. I found the deep, pleasantly bitter, and earthy flavor of buckwheat satisfying and nourishing. [...]

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Harbin ice festival a feast of fancy, lights

HARBIN, China (AP) - A cold snap in northern China has thrown daily life into confusion, but is ideal for fairy tale palaces, towering pagodas, and even a sphinx - all carved from ice - that make up the sights at this year’s Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.
The annual event in northern China, [...]

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Unprecedented food crisis

Increasing transportation costs, the shrinking dollar, diversion of grains to bio-fuel, is a perfect storm causing a food crisis, especially in Africa. A sack of wheat that cost $8 in 2006 now costs $25 in Egypt.
The recent skyrocketing cost of food staples around the world is making national and international headlines. The crisis is prompting [...]

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Dutch Recipes and Cuisine

Dutch cuisine is very much influenced by the agricultural produce of the Netherlands and the country’s history as a seafaring nation. Fish and seafood (including cod, eel, herring, mackerel, mussels, oysters, plaice, salmon, sardines, soleidae, shrimp, trout and tuna) are all eaten in the Netherlands. Popular meats include beef, chicken and pork.
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Spicy and Seductive Indonesian Traditional Food

There is nothing like going for some Indonesian Traditional Food. Once you have filled your week with enough local and fast food, or you have gone a month with eating European and world fairs from the many restaurants located island wide, it would be time to visit one of the authentic Indonesian Traditional Food restaurants [...]

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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Indonesian Foods Are the Spice of Life

When you want Indonesian food, and there is not an Asian market nearby or if there is not an Asian market around at all, you have two choices. You can accept that you will never be able to walk around a grocery that has the kinds of foods you love, or you can do what [...]

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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009