Md. crab bake draws politicians and crowds
Folks piled into the Somers Cove Marina for an all-you-can-eat seafood feast. Based on years past, the event can draw up to 3,500 people.
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LaGrange younsters offer a oesweeta gesture –
From left, Pearson Knight, Davis Knight and Hampton Malone enjoy ice cream at the Medicine Cabinet on Vernon Street after donating their Sweet Land of Liberty Parade prize money to Toys for Tots.
How fake is your food? Exploring the dark side of the food chain
As a columnist for Forbes and USA Today , food writer Larry Olmsted has written about all of that and more, from b ogus Kobe beef sold in fancy restaurants to supermarket spices adulterated with common weeds. In his new book Real Food/Fake Food , Olmsted delves deep into the dark aspects of the food chain in America, revealing the dirty secrets about how our food is marketed and labeled - and what's right and especially wrong with what we eat.
More Scenes from a Wedding
We were dining on barbecue beef brisket Sunday beneath the shade trees at Ole Gilliam Mill near Sanford, N.C., when Cassie asked, "When are you going to dance?" Cassie is a friend of my son Bob, and also of his twin brother Jim and Jim's wife Danielle. Cassie remembered how I danced at Jim's wedding - the old man busting out his old disco moves circa 1979 - and was eager for another show.
New Haven program aims to curb gap in food security
In order to make sure one less child goes hungry over the summer, officials and volunteers gathered Saturday to kick off the city's Free Summer Meals program. From June 27 to Aug. 26, low-income children 18 and under will be eligible to receive meals at 91 different sites throughout the city.
Mapping the America That Candidates Care About
The pre-emptive "sorry" was an appropriate way both to soften the announcement and to sharpen it: Breakfast-when to eat it, what to eat for it , whether to eat it at all-has long been a subject of intense debate, accompanied by intense confusion and intense feeling. "Breakfast nowadays is cool," the writer Jen Doll noted in Extra Crispy , the new newsletter from Time magazine that is devoted to, yep, breakfast.
Combos join peanut scare recall
Mars Chocolate North America announced the voluntary recall of some Combos pretzel and cracker snacks this week due to the potential for these products to contain peanut residue. There is no warning on the label of these snacks.
Not Just Guns: One Click Shopping for the Makings of A Bomb
No questions asked, just like you and I would buy a loaf of bread. They mixed that ammonium nitrate with racing fuel and had the makings of the deadliest bomb in U.S. history.
Veterans return from first all-women Honor Flight
McDonald's is moving back to Chicago and taking over the old home of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." The world's biggest hamburger... WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton vowed Monday to make stopping "lone wolf" terrorists a top priority if elected president, saying that while the shooter... NEW YORK - CBS' Tony Awards on Sunday beat last year's audience by one-third.
4 Steps to Buying Better Salmon
How do I know what kind of salmon to buy? Should I buy farmed salmon or wild-caught salmon? What does it mean when salmon is labeled organic? How can I tell if it is fresh? I'm confused about whether consuming farmed salmon is okay or not. These are questions I get over and over again, and I understand why: The answers aren't totally clear to consumers.
David Sarasohn: Fighting over lunch money
"I spent a lot of my time at my last school in Utah tracking down families who owed lunch money," he recalls, not exactly nostalgically. Welch has been able to think about education more lately because of a change in the school lunch rules in 2010, that allow schools with at least 40 percent of their students on food stamps or Medicaid to serve everybody free lunch.
Applebee’sA Takes Over the Grill This Father’s Day
As Father's Day approaches, Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar locations in New Jersey invite dads to follow the enticing aroma of American Oak smoke into their local Applebee's to enjoy a NEW Hand-Cut Wood Fired Steak on Sunday, June 19. Using USDA Choice Top Sirloin Steaks, its trained in-house meat cutters will evaluate and hand-cut each one-inch thick steak and grill to perfection on its new American-made, wood fired grills to provide fathers with the steak they deserve. NEW Hand-Cut Wood Fired Steaks - 6 oz.
Benefits of GMOs get collection of opinions
Other than being crops the majority of Americans consume and use daily, these items, unless certified organic, are genetically modified COOKE'S FOOD STORE and Pharmacy has its USDA Certified Organic produce in its own section. The store confirmed the locally grown produce, like Grainger County tomatoes, is not genetically modified either.
Food Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election
With the Libertarian Party picking its nominee this weekend, and with Democrats and Republicans having all but chosen their respective nominees already, it's as good a time as any to chew on some of the key food-policy issues candidates should be discussing as we inch toward the general election in November. In that spirit, here are nine key issues I'd like to see the presidential candidates discuss this year.
Clinton stops by Oakland diner
Oakland >> Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign took on a local flavor Friday morning as she held court inside an Oakland diner, discussing everything from gentrification to helping ex-felons get jobs. “That's why I'm here,” she told her select group of breakfast-mates, who included Mayor Libby Schaaf and Oakland schools Superintendent Antwan Wilson.
5 Memorial Day blogs that serve as a tribute to the fallen
More than just a grilling holiday, Memorial Day is a time to reflect and remember the men and women who sacrificed so much to protect our nation's freedoms. It's Memorial Day , and our family is busy breeding another cycle of synchronized cows, moving more pairs to pasture and squeezing in a second birthday party for our daughter, Scarlett, before the new baby arrives.
Obama dropin for pork soup stuns street vendor owner
She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi street-side restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic stool and slurped down Vietnam's famed "bun cha" delicacy.
Obama reaches out to people a day after Vietnam arms deal
President Barack Obama greets women at the door as he walks from the BAon chao HAE AE ng LiAan restaurant after having dinner with American Chef Anthony Bourdain in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, May 23, 2016. President Barack Obama greets women at the door as he walks from the BAon chao HAE AE ng LiAan restaurant after having dinner with American Chef Anthony Bourdain in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, May 23, 2016.
Obama dines with CNN’s Anthony Bourdain for series
President Barack Obama dined in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Monday with CNN personality Anthony Bourdain, whose "Parts Unknown" food travelogue is one of the network's most popular nonfiction series. U.S. President Barack Obama, right, walks past Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang after a joint press conference at the International Convention Center in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, May 23, 2016.
Opinions
Mostly it's been depicted as a crop grown far from the mainstream in the fields of far-right crackpots, at least that's how the government-approved media see it. They conveniently fail to mention that Ronald Reagan campaigned on the idea and was elected President - twice.