Food
Require labels for genetically engineered foods
The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, May 15:
Food
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FAMILY PAGES
Kids burned by instant soup cups
On a typical June day last year, 3-year-old Jolan Jackson was sitting at the dining room table in his booster chair waiting for his meal.
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FOOD
Biotech crops and Europe; a losing battle against progress
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Monday, May 13:
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FOOD
The spread of speculoos: Spicy cookie paste from Belgium gains a following
After its creation was announced via nationwide broadcast, people lined up to buy the very first versions. It's lightweight, has been the subject of fierce patent battles and is so addictive you can't put it down, even when you know you should.
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
Got diet milk?
CHICAGO - In the face of troublingly high childhood obesity rates and what it sees as troublingly low milk consumption rates, the dairy industry says it has a solution: Offer kids flavored milk that uses low-calorie artificial sweeteners.
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FOOD
Blended wines can be more or less than the sum of their parts
Years ago a California winemaker came to Miami touting his latest creation - a single, complex, expensive wine made by blending four or five well-known individual red grapes.
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
Spring clean your home for a healthier you
I use every opportunity I can to exercise, and if you are anything like me, you're in the midst of "Spring Cleaning Fever."
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FOOD
Rhubarb not just for pies
Rhubarb is one of the great pleasures of spring, with its rosy color and earthy tang. It is found in most supermarkets this time of year, although it is available frozen anytime. Also known as "pieplant," rhubarb is a perennial that is native to central and northern Asia, where it has been grown...
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Wine of the Week: 2011 Giovanni Almondo Roero Arneis 'Bricco delle Ciliegie'
This is a stunning Arneis from Giovanni Almondo in the Roero region of Piedmont. And to think this grape was once almost extinct. It may be temperamental, but whatever pains must be taken to produce this lovely white are worth it. The 2011 wafts the scents of ripe pears, melons and flowers from ...
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Culinary SOS: Oatmeal raisin cookies from Standard Baking Co.
Dear SOS: On a trip up the coast of Maine, we found a wonderful bakery in Portland called Standard Baking Co. Everything was delicious, but my husband declared the oatmeal cookies the best he'd ever had, and we made a special detour on the return route to buy more cookies. I'd love it if you could...
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173-year-old family-run New Orleans restaurant may lose a daughter
NEW ORLEANS - She grew up crawling around the dining room of her family's French Quarter restaurant, lost under crisp white tablecloths stamped with fleurs-de-lis and smoke drifting from gentlemen's cigars, a towheaded child nicknamed "The Wildness."


