syrup

    By Piet Levy

    | 10:00AM 10/18/2010
    Fries and ketchup. Peanut butter and jelly. Chips and dip. Some foods simply taste better when paired with the perfect partner. And that's definitely the case for waffles. Back in July, Store Brand Scorecard sampled Eggo buttermilk waffles and three frozen store brand varieties, to determine which...

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 6:30PM 1/19/2010
    The warning came in April 2009, a Starbucks representative tells me: during the analyst call to review the second fiscal quarter results for 2009. CEO Howard Schultz issued the bland-seeming statement, saying price "fine-tuning" would occur, "minor changes that will lower prices on some of our...

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 8:00AM 1/15/2009
    I was shocked this summer when I saw the price of maple syrup virtually double in a few weeks' time. My family sweetens a lot of our food with maple syrup as we are working to reduce overly processed foods in our diet. At the time, I didn't know exactly why, but I've just been schooled in the world...

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 5:50PM 12/31/2007
    I'd always thought the irony was both diabolical and hilarious: products marketed as "infant" medicines included no instructions for children under the age of two, instead suggesting that the worried parent consult his physician. When my first son was a baby, I met those warnings with fear and...