You see them mostly at old fashioned American diners and coffee shops. Ladies in their fifties, sixties, even seventies and older, working the counter, waiting on tables, chatting up the customers, pouring the coffee. Career waitresses.
Roughly 113 billion disposable cups, 39 billion disposable eating utensils and 29 billion disposable plates are used in the U.S. each year. Fortunately, many manufacturers and restaurants are as concerned as consumers are.
Livestock and poultry groups hosted educational briefings on Capitol Hill last week to share the facts about the importance of tools like antibiotics in raising healthy food animals.
Could discarded foods—half-eaten pizza crusts, watermelon rinds, stale bread—soon be converted into fuel to heat our homes? The potential is certainly there, but some high hurdles must be overcome.
This weekend I had the unique opportunity to watch a master at work. Susanna Foo is a well known chef in the Philadelphia area, not too far from my home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. But, really, tofu? Check it out in iraves.com!
For National Nutrition Month, the American Dietetic Association offers help in navigating grocery aisles to learn which food marketing phrases can help you make healthier choices—and which terms won’t make much of a difference to your diet.
Recently, two U.S. breweries have been brewing oysters in their beer. Flying Fish Brewing had a limited release called Exit 1 Bayshore Oyster Stout, and Harpoon Brewery, Boston, added Island Creek Oyster Stout to its “100 Barrel Series.”
The prolonged January cold-snap in Florida has resulted in a tomato shortage that’s affecting both supermarkets and restaurants. In many fast food restaurants, if you want tomatoes on your burger, you gotta ask for them—and say please.
The mypressi Twist is a truly portable espresso machine that is amazingly easy to use. It produces espresso rivaling traditional machines. It’s a gadget you hold in one hand. There’s no cord, nothing to plug in, no batteries even.
