The granddaddy of organic and natural foods retail, Whole Foods Market, turns 30 this month and consumer interest in healthy foods has never appeared stronger. In a recent …
‘Food’ Archive
Kissing Fat, Salt, and Sugar Goodbye: Can Food Companies Say Yes to White House Anti-Obesity Plan?
by Linnea Kirgan, May 17, 2010, 11:05 amMichelle Obama is on a mission to make America’s kids healthier – cutting the childhood obesity rate within 20 years to 5 percent from 20 percent today – and she released the results of the White House Task Force on …
Food Revolution Hits the Grocery Store
by Linnea Kirgan, April 28, 2010, 1:48 pmJamie Oliver’s Food Revolution series recently wrapped on ABC, leaving viewers on their own to battle their food demons. On his show, Oliver improved school lunches and cooking know-how for Huntington, West Virginia residents. The situation is dire, Oliver says, because …
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
by Jeff Dorsch, April 23, 2010, 2:08 pmMore on the last-factory-closing beat: The last US factory exclusively canning sardines abruptly closed this month in Prospect Harbor, Maine. Bumble Bee Foods, which operated the cannery, chiefly blamed the federal limit on …
Taking on childhood obesity is no easy task
by Anne Law, February 12, 2010, 10:38 amThe Obama administration has brought a new hot topic into play this month — childhood obesity. First Lady Michelle Obama has stepped forward to champion changes in child nutrition and exercise programs through school, community, and health care initiatives. …
Dinner is served with Campbell’s revamped cooking site
by Jessica Jimenez, November 18, 2009, 9:05 amWho is ready for some Thanksgiving eats? I am, for sure! But the scrumptious cuisine will have to wait for me until after I run our local ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot, a …
Stella D’Oro: That’s the way the cookie crumbles
by Patrice Sarath, October 2, 2009, 4:10 pmAfter my Stella D’Oro blog of last week, I got a press release in my in-box from the company. They just wanted to set the record straight.
“From the outset of negotiations a year ago, the Company …
Stella d’Oro Gets New Owner
by Patrice Sarath, September 22, 2009, 2:25 pmProust had his madeleines. For me, it’s Stella D’oro. When I was growing up in the far north (well, Connecticut), an afternoon snack was Stella D’oro almond toasts dipped in milk. You had to dip fast. …
After months of dormancy IPOs finally re-emerge
by Laura Huchzermeyer, September 3, 2009, 1:19 pmThere have been several so-called “green shoots” popping up in the economy recently. These little signs of life springing forth from a parched economic landscape give everyone hope that maybe the worst is behind us.
One indication that things …
Even Starbucks is tired of a Starbucks on every corner
by Patrice Sarath, September 1, 2009, 3:31 pm“We even have Starbucks, what else d’you need?” — James McMurtry, Out Here in the Middle
Coffee peddler Starbucks has launched a new concept store that it hopes will help boost its decaffeinated earnings. The company has …
