‘Food’ Archive

Organic Food Fight Pits Unlikely Foes

by Linnea Kirgan, September 1, 2010, 1:50 pm

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 …

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 am

Michelle 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 pm

Jamie 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 pm

More 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 am

The 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 am

Who 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 pm

After 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 pm

Proust 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 pm

There 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 …