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This Thanksgiving, Don't Forget to Thank Canada for Your Dinner
3:20AM 11/24/2011
When it comes to eating locally, it's hard to beat the original Thanksgiving dinner. Today's holiday diners have far more options than the Pilgrims, and the string beans, sweet potatoes, cranberries and such on your table may come from abroad -- but they probably didn't have to come too far.
Americans are still pinching pennies, and some of that budget cutting is happening in our kitchens. But spending less on food doesn't have to mean sacrificing quality or taste. Centuries of effort in cultures around the world has gone into creating delicious, inexpensive and surprisingly healthy peasant cuisines.
Spud Wars: Potato Farmers Prepare to Battle New USDA Guidelines
10:00AM 11/02/2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering new dietary guidelines for school lunches, and the ubiquitous potato may be on the chopping block. The potato industry, though, is getting ready to defend its reputation -- and its bottom line.
When you pass around the side dishes at this year's Thanksgiving feast, here's one thing to be thankful for: you're eating mashed potatoes instead of mashed paper towels. But if you were chewing on the towels instead of the spuds, would you even know it, asks a Thanksgiving-related video from the...
Deviled Eggs? Eggs, greens among riskiest foods overseen by FDA
3:00PM 10/06/2009
Think you're safe eating foods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration? Think again, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit health advocacy group.
What many consumers consider healthy foods -- including eggs and leafy greens -- are implicated in 40% of...
McDonald's prepares to switch its fries to a greener potato
5:00PM 9/23/2009
The greatest potato consumer in the U.S. is McDonalds (MCD), which buys 1.5 million tons of spuds every year to make french fries for the world. Of course, buying so much of a single commodity means McDonald's choices greatly affect the rest of the country -- and it makes the company an easy target...
The pretentious table: Cheap starches get a high-priced makeover
4:00PM 4/22/2009
Over the past few years, as upscale cuisine has increasingly divorced itself from anything resembling what the average person consumes, an interesting trend has emerged: modest, mainstream foods have often been co-opted by the culinary elites. This has led to a strange reversal, wherein peasant...
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