Food
Food service employee claims she’s forced to serve rotten food to students
(KMOV.com) An employee with a food service company is claiming the food shes been serving students at a St. Louis charter school is rotten and moldy. However her employer, along with the school, say her claims are not only false, but she has an ulterior motive. Despite the accusations, Jeannette Wilkerson says shes willing to [...]
USDA Livestock Identification Program Seeks To Strengthen Security Of Food …
MILWAUKEE The federal government has launched a new livestock identification program to help agriculture officials to quickly track livestock in cases of disease. It is the US Department of Agricultures second attempt at implementing such a system, which officials say is critical to maintaining the security of the nations food supply. An earlier, voluntary program [...]
VIDEO: Hudson Valley food hub unnecessary, report finds
Does the Hudson Valley need a major food hub to better connect small and mid-sized farmers with consumers and wholesale markets? A philanthropically funded research report examined ways to build a more resilient local food supply system, including whether food hubs would be one means of addressing a decline in the number of farms and [...]
Why There’s No ‘Cooking With Honey Boo Boo’ On Food Network
The home of cable channels Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel is tucked between the old Brown Squirrel Furniture Store and the Dead Horse Lake Golf Course at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tenn. The main building curves around a lake where, on pleasant days, employees take meetings in paddle boats. [...]
Bon Appétit Magazine Names 10 Best US Hotels For Food
Food and travel have always been inseparable – no matter where you go or why you go there you are going to eat. But in recent years, travel for food’s sake has exploded in popularity, and accordingly, high quality food is increasingly the reason people pick particular hotels, from Vegas to Paris to rural inns. [...]
Enzymes turn inedible waste plant material into food and fuel
Researchers have managed to turn indigestible cellulose into starch, a process that could render billions of tons of agricultural waste into food and fuel. Plants grow more than 160 billion tons of cellulose–the material that makes up the walls of plant cells–every year, but only a tiny fraction of that is useful to humans in [...]