NPR Food Podcast
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NPR: 05-16-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Tiny Mites Spark Big Battle Over Imports Of French Cheese 2) Unpacking Foreign Ingredients In A Massachusetts Kitchen 3) Experts Percolate on How To Brew Coffee 4) Wendell Pierce On 'Making Groceries' In The Big Easy
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NPR: 05-09-2013 Food
Stories: 1) How To Dip Without Breaking The Chip 2) Chef Edward Lee Adds Korean Spice To Southern Comfort Food 3) Rat 'Mutton' And Bird Flu: Strange Days For Meat Eaters In Shanghai 4) Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops
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NPR: 05-02-2013 Food
Stories: 1) So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee 2) Exploring Coffee's Past To Rescue Its Future 3) This Little Piggy Cookie Is A Sweet Mexican Find 4) The Lollipop War
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NPR: 04-25-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Fire, Water, Air, Earth: Michael Pollan Gets Elemental In 'Cooked' 2) For Corn, Fickle Weather Makes For Uncertain Yields 3) Nigella Lawson Helps Listener Cook Her Eclectic Cupboard 4) How Coffee Brings The World Together
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NPR: 04-18-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Red Meat's Heart Risk Goes Beyond The Fat 2) Poring Over the Science of Coffee 3) A 'Charleston Kitchen' Full Of Foraged And Forgotten Foods
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NPR: 04-11-2013 Food
Stories: 1) A North Carolina Pie That Elicits An 'Oh My God' Response 2) Vermont Finds High-Tech Ways To Sap More Money From Maple Trees 3) Why You Shouldn't Wrinkle Your Nose At Fermentation 4) Demand Is High For Mexico's Magnificent Mangoes
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NPR: 04-04-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Journey To Java's 'Tempeh Village': Where Soybean Cakes Are Born 2) Homemade Peeps, And More Easter Treats, A La Thomas Keller 3) The Trick To Selling Fancy Wine From New Jersey: Don't Say It's From New Jersey 4) Spicing Up Your Easter Or Passover Meal
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NPR: 03-28-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Forget Fish Fridays: In Louisiana, Gator Is On The Lenten Menu 2) Raising A Glass To Jim Barrett, Who Put American Wine On The Map 3) Are Agriculture's Most Popular Insecticides Killing Our Bees? 4) Mount Vernon Visitors Can Sip History
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NPR: 03-21-2013 Food
Stories: 1) A Daily Habit Of Green Tea Or Coffee Cuts Stroke Risk 2) Wine Revolution: As Drinkers And Growers, U.S. Declares Independence 3) Craft Brews Slowly Chipping Away At Big Beer's Dominance 4) 'Drunken Botanist' Takes A Garden Tour Of The Liquor Cabinet
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NPR: 03-14-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Can the Anti-Aging Secret Be Found in...Red Wine? 2) Career Suicide Or Lifesaver? Why A Professional Foodie Went Vegetarian 3) Poi: Hawaii's Recipe For Revitalizing Island Culture
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NPR: 03-07-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Wild Bees Are Good For Crops, But Crops Are Bad For Bees 2) Why Processed Food Is Cheaper Than Healthier Options 3) How Did Our Brains Evolve To Equate Food With Love? 4) Family Keeps Jewish Soulfood Alive At New York 'Appetizing' Store
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NPR: 02-28-2013 Food
Stories: 1) The Microwave Miracle Of Cooking In Mugs 2) A Dramatic Way To Uncork The Bubbly: Use A Sword 3) Germans Are Drinking Less Beer These Days, But Why? 4) Family Dinner: Treasured Tradition Or Bygone Ideal?
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NPR: 02-21-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight 2) Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches The Supreme Court 3) Secret Menus Give Restaurants A Not-So-Secret Boost 4) Former Peanut Firm Executives Indicted Over 2009 Salmonella Outbreak
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NPR: 02-14-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Auntie Anne's Pretzels In Beijing: Why The Chinese Didn't Bite 2) An Italian-Inspired Valentine's Feast From 'Nigellissima' 3) Dining Alone? It's Not As Bad As You Think 4) Conditions Allow For More Sustainable-Labeled Seafood
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NPR: 02-07-2013 Food
Stories: 1) New Hampshire Cuts Red Tape To Put Nanobreweries On Tap 2) How To Save A Public Library: Make It A Seed Bank 3) Where's The Beef? Burger King Finds Horsemeat In Its U.K. Patties 4) After Sandy, Pilgrimages To 'Church Of N.Y. Pizza' On Hold
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NPR: 01-31-2013 Food
Stories: 1) How One Man Tried To Slim Down Big Soda From The Inside 2) Oysters Rebound In Popularity With Man-Made Bounty 3) In Japan, Food Can Be Almost Too Cute To Eat 4) To Maximize Weight Loss, Eat Early in The Day, Not Late
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NPR: 01-24-2013 Food
Stories: 1) Subway Foot-Long Sub Comes Up Short 2) An Inaugural Memory: President Lincoln's Food Fight 3) Distilling Presidential History Into 44 Cocktails 4) Farmers And Their Cooperative Settle Lawsuit On Fixing The Price Of Milk
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NPR: 01-18-2013 Food
Stories: 1) This Butter Sculpture Could Power A Farm For 3 Days 2) Cross-Culture Cilantro Sauce And Other Secrets Of 'Gran Cocina Latina' 3) Young Adults Swapping Soda For The Super Buzz Of Coffee 4) Women With A Berry-Snacking Habit May Have Healthier Hearts
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NPR: 01-10-2013 Food
Stories: 1) FDA Releases Rules To Strengthen Safety Of Food Supply 2) Are You Eating Too Fast? Ask Your Fork 3) Elvis Left The Building Long Ago, But His Food (And Music) Lives On 4) Farm Bill Critics Claim Partial Victory Despite Stalemate
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NPR: 01-03-2013 Food
Stories: 1) One Lunch Lady's Cafeteria Conversion 2) Tamari Greens, Miso Yams: Chef Gives Vegans Multicultural Flavor 3) 'The Book Of Gin' Distills A Spirited History 4) Cheap Bubbly Or Expensive Sparkling Wine? Look To The Bubbles For Clues
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NPR: 12-27-2012 Food
Stories: 1) The 'Bitter' Tale Of The Budweiser Family 2) The Rebirth Of Rye Whiskey And Nostalgia For 'The Good Stuff' 3) At Christmas, A Roman Holiday Revolves Around The Food 4) Computers May Someday Beat Chefs At Creating Flavors We Crave
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NPR: 12-20-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Chestnuts: Paying Homage To A Winter Classic 2) Not Just For Coffee Anymore: The Rise Of Caffeinated Foods 3) One Airport's Trash Is 2 Million Worms' Treasure 4) The Paradox And Mystery Of Our Taste For Salt
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NPR: 12-14-2012 Food
Stories: 1) In Farmers Market, A Free Market Rises In Cuba 2) At Hanukkah, Pastry Reminds Portland Jews Of Their Mediterranean Roots 3) What Do You Eat On Christmas Day? 4) UPDATE: This One Really Is The World's Most Expensive Whisky, We're Told
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NPR: 12-06-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Palestinian Olive Harvest Turns Bitter As Economy Sputters 2) Some Restaurants In Israel Declare A Kosher Rebellion 3) N.Y. Fast-Food Workers Strike For Better Wages 4) Perhaps Another Reason To Spike That Eggnog?
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NPR: 11-30-2012 Food
Stories: 1) At His Own Risk, Somali Chef Creates Gourmet Haven In War-Weary Mogadishu 2) Real Chefs Grind It With A Mortar And Pestle 3) No Innocent Spice: The Secret Story Of Nutmeg, Life And Death 4) Thanksgiving Leftovers: Beyond Sandwiches
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NPR: 11-22-2012 Food
Stories: 1) A 'Splendid Table' Set With Mama Stamberg's Relish 2) Beer, Wine And Spirits: When Counting Our Liquid Calories, Are We Honest? 3) The Veggieducken: A Meatless Dish With Gravitas 4) Enjoy Thanksgiving Sprouts Without The Stink
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NPR: 11-16-2012 Food
Stories: 1) To Get Around Tax Hike, Spanish Theater Sells Carrots, Not Tickets 2) Wild Turkeys Gobble Their Way To A Comeback 3) Bioengineering Beer Foam
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NPR: 11-09-2012 Food
Stories: 1) After Sandy, It's Pizza And Homemade Meatballs For The Lucky In New Jersey 2) Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider 3) J.R. Ewing And A Found Recipe For Poppy Seed Cookies 4) You Can Thank A Whey Refinery For That Protein Smoothie
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NPR: 11-02-2012 Food
Stories: 1) 'Smitten Kitchen' Takes The Fuss Out Of Cooking 2) For The Love Of Cheese, Diners Unite In Italy 3) Tuna Noodle Casserole, A Hot Dish In Need Of An Update, Gets One
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Record-Breaking Bratwurst Story Has A Twist
Story: A feud is under way between two Wisconsin towns over which of them grilled the biggest bratwurst.
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NPR: 10-18-2012 Food
Stories: 1) When It Comes To Falafel, The Flavors Of Home Can Vary 2) Making 'The Science Of Good Cooking' Look Easy 3) Kelp For Farmers: Seaweed Becomes A New Crop In America 4) Jerusalem: A Love Letter To Food And Memories Of Home
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NPR: 10-12-2012 Food
Stories: 1) In Haiti, Aid Groups Squabble Over Rival Peanut Butter Factories 2) Shake It Up, Baby: Are Martinis Made The Bond Way Better? 3) Bacon Shortage Is Hogwash
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NPR: 10-05-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Bouillabaisse: From Humble Beginnings To High-Class Tourist Meal 2) Capturing Summer's Harvest, One DIY Wine Bottle At A Time
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NPR: 09-27-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Greek Olive Oil Woes Echo Country's Broader Economic Challenges 2) How Food And Clothing Size Labels Affect What We Eat And What We Wear 3) Cheap Cheese Smuggled Across Canadian Border 4) Greek Credit Crisis Forces Winemakers, Food Canners To Adapt
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NPR: 09-20-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Nordic Cuisine: Moving Beyond The Meatballs And Pickled Fish 2) It's No Yolk: Mexicans Cope With Egg Shortage, Price Spikes 3) Japanese Sake Makers Shake Off Tradition, Try Brewing Craft Beer 4) Rosh Hashana's Sacred Bread Offers Meaning In Many Shapes And Sizes
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NPR: 09-14-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Panera Sandwich Chain Explores 'Pay What You Want' Concept 2) When It Comes To Buying Organic, Science And Beliefs Don't Always Mesh 3) Low And Slow May Be The Way To Go When It Comes To Dieting 4) Organic Food Study May Not Change Consumer Habits
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NPR: 09-06-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Swimming And Snacking On Egypt's North Coast 2) Battle Over Michigan's New Swine Rules Goes Hog Wild 3) Why Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You 4) Alaska Man Rolls Record Cabbage Out Of The Patch
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NPR: 08-30-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Squash Savories To Soothe Summer's End 2) In The Kitchen With The Inventor Of Steak-Umm 3) In India, 100-Year-Old Lunch Delivery Service Goes Modern 4) Maine's Needhams: A Sweet Treat Of Earthy Potatoes
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NPR: 08-23-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Shop Owners Hope Yogurt Smooths A Path Out Of Greek Recession 2) Shop Owners Hope Yogurt Smooths A Path Out Of Greek Recession 3) Valomilks: A Sweet Treat That Runs Down Your Chin
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NPR: 08-17-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Maine Lobstermen Give Farming Sea Scallops A Try 2) Got Heartburn? Maybe You Should Rethink Your Drink 3) Chukar Cherries: A Year-Round Taste Of Summer 4) Summer Wine: Look For Light, Bright And Affordable
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NPR: 08-10-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Grand Ole Goo Goo Sweetens Fans Old And New 2) This Drought's No Dry Run: Lessons Of The Dust Bowl 3) New Moo-Bile App Helps Keep Cows Cool And Farmers Updated 4) Presidential Foods And What They Say About Our Leaders
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NPR: 08-02-2012 Food
Stories: 1) You Won't Throw Tomatoes At These Recipes 2) McDonald's Food Has A Healthy Glow, At Least In China 3) In New Mexico, A Brittle Treat That Smolders
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NPR: 07-26-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Soul Food Fans Say Goodbye To 'Queen' Sylvia 2) Pizza Museum To Offer A Slice Of American Food And Culture 3) The Modjeska: A Star On Stage, Sweetly Remembered
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NPR: 07-20-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Three Beers To Cheer Your Summer Suppers 2) An Olympic-Sized Outrage Grows Over French Fry Sales At The Games 3) Don't Cry Over Burnt Milk In South Texas; Savor It 4) 'Blind Cook' Serves Up Tough Competition On 'MasterChef'
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NPR: 07-13-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Manju: A Taste Of Home For Seattle's Japanese Community 2) Since When Does Summer Taste Like Doughnuts? 3) Laws That Target Homeless Imperil Programs That Feed Them Outdoors 4) Pie Week Evokes Memories From Listeners
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NPR: 07-05-2012 Food
Stories: 1) This Chef Loves Her 'Pig,' From Nose To Tail 2) If You Liked Meat Week, You'll Love Pie Week 3) Pie-Making 101: How I Overcame My Fear Of Crumbling Crust 4) The Season Of Ice Cream: Tips From The Top
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NPR: 06-28-2012 Food
Stories: 1) California Dairy Farmers Split Over Milk Payments In Farm Bill 2) The Fight For The Right To Hear, 'Yes, Chef' 3) We Evolved To Eat Meat, But How Much Is Too Much? 4) Fancy Names Can Fool Wine Geeks Into Paying More For A Bottle
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NPR: 06-21-2012 Food
Stories: 1) African Land Fertile Ground For Crops And Investors 2) Is The Coconut Water Craze All It's Cracked Up To Be? 3) Chef Tempts Tourists Back To Tijuana By Focusing On The Food
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NPR: 06-14-2012 Food
Stories: 1) The Motivation Behind What We Eat, Drink 2) Food Truck Cookbook Tracks Best Meals Served On Wheels 3) An Olympic Task: Finding Good Food At The Games 4) Farmers Split Over Subsidies As Senate Farm Bill Debate Begins
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NPR: 06-07-2012 Food
Stories: 1) The Sounds Of Asparagus, As Explored Through Opera 2) Tired Of Mowing Your Lawn? Try Foodscaping It Instead 3) America's Gone Bananas: Here's How It Happened 4) No Beer Goggles For Baseball Stadium Brew Prices
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NPR: 05-31-2012 Food
Stories: 1) The Graveyard Of Shelved Ice Cream Flavors 2) Add A Little Texas To Your Holiday Cookout 3) The First Lady Cultivates 'American Grown' Gardening 4) Clean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Food Network's Alton Brown
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For Your Next Meal, Are Organs On The Menu?
Story: Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema travels the country sampling the latest dishes. He gives host Michel Martin a slice of what's in and what's out in the food world, including some unusual experiments "ear to tail" cooking.
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NPR: 05-17-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Chefs Fight California's Foie Gras Ban 2) Betting Better Fake Chicken Meat Will Be As Good As The Real Thing 3) Bring On The 'Yabbies': Australia Ditches The Bad British Food
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NPR: 05-10-2012 Food
Stories: 1) Food Trucks Seek 'That Mystical Spot' 2) High School Bake Sales Run Afoul Of Obesity Fight 3) Sacrilegious Lunch? The Cuban Sandwich Debate 4) 'No Capers In The Kitchen:' Oyster Joint Turns 100
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High School Bake Sales Run Afoul Of Obesity Fight
As school budgets continue to get squeezed, administrators, parents and students are having to do more fundraising. And now the fight to raise funds has come head-to-head with the fight against childhood obesity. Stephanie Armour, of Bloomberg Businessweek, talks to David Greene about the move to ban bake sales.
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Food Trucks Seek 'That Mystical Spot'
"We've gone to spots before where the falafel guys and the shish kebab guys will come up and say, 'What's your menu? Do you sell chicken? ... You can't sell chicken on this block. I'm the chicken guy on 52nd St.'"
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How To Tiptoe Into The Hot Sauce Craze
Hot sauce is one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S., and there are thousands of connoisseurs out there who call themselves chili-heads. If you're not one of them, but you'd like to learn, our experts offer some tips on how to start.
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Taste Testing The Hot Sauce Spectrum
There's hot sauce, and then there's hot sauce. Audie Cornish puts reporter Allison Aubrey to the taste test at Rocklands BBQ in Arlington, Va.
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Cinco De Mayo: Excuse To Indulge In Tacos, Salsa?
As the Mexican holiday approaches this weekend, host Michel Martin and writer Gustavo Arellano look at America's layered relationship with Mexican culture and food.
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What Will Make The Food Desert Bloom?
Improving the health of people living in food deserts is much more than making sure there are veggies on the shelves. As activists have learned, it takes education and some old-fashioned innovation, too.
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'Hot Dog' Meets 'Bun': Famous Food Discoveries
Some of the most popular culinary creations — Granny Smith apples, Caesar salad and nachos — are products of fortuitous discoveries. Josh Chetwynd's new book, How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun, chronicles the quirky history of kitchen favorites.
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Taming Those Wild, Stinging Backyard Greens Into Dinner
A Pittsburgh food writer offers a lesson in making pesto out of stinging nettles and garlic mustard — springtime greens often considered weeds.
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Mad Cow Disease: What You Need To Know Now
The food supply is safe, federal officials say, even though a fourth case of mad cow disease has been discovered in the United States. A 2009 ban on using cattle parts in animal feed may be why cases are so infrequent.
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The California Taco Trail: 'How Mexican Food Conquered...
Once upon a time, tacos were a Mexican snack. Now they're an All-American institution. Gustavo Arellano leads us across Southern California in search of the roots of the American taco.
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Can Outsiders Appreciate The 'Bawlmer' Berger?
Baltimore residents have long cherished the city's classic Berger cookies. But now that they're available beyond city limits, Baltimore native Andrew Reiner asks whether non-Baltimoreans can truly appreciate the venerated cookie. He speaks with host Michel Martin.
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How Making Food Safe Can Harm Wildlife And Water
After an outbreak of E. coli in spinach killed several people in 2006, farmers clamped down on every possible source of contamination. Those safety efforts have also pushed out wildlife, destroyed sensitive habitats and increased pollution in waterways.
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Fake Food: That's Not Kobe Beef You're Eating
From steaks to sliders, Kobe beef seems to be popping up on menus nationwide. No matter what form it takes, though, it's not actually Kobe beef. Here's how you've been fooled.
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The Cuban Sandwich Crisis: Tampa V. Miami For The Win
Tampa and Miami are battling it out for the rights to the Cuban sandwich. NPR's own news directors from WLRN in Miami and WUSF in Tampa are making their cases, and you, the readers and listeners, can help decide.
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For Most Of Human History, Being An Omnivore Was No...
Humans and other primates have been omnivores for some time, which may have given us an evolutionary edge over strictly meat or plant eaters, a new study shows. It may have also prompted us to wean our babies faster, another study says.
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Rewash That Pre-Washed Bag Of Lettuce? Don't Bother...
Some listeners took issue with our off-the-cuff recommendation that they rewash already washed lettuce on All Things Considered yesterday. Today correspondent Dan Charles explains why there's not really a right answer.
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Government Takeover Of Farm Subsidy Would Save Billions,...
Crop insurance is a sticky issue in the debate over the shape of the farm bill this year. But what if a simplified version of the program could save taxpayers billions of dollars? One economist says it could.
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The Well-Dressed Salad: Tips For Keeping It Fresh
Food blogger Molly Wizenberg shares her advice for keeping fresh lettuce from rotting in the fridge, picking the tastiest springtime greens and dressing your salad in style.
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Your Salad: A Search For Where The Wild Things Were
Tracing the source of contamination in fresh foods grown in the ground is hard work, and companies spend a lot of money trying to keep Salmonella and other bugs out while allowing nature to run its course. But it's not easy.
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Starbucks Ditches Bug-Based Red Dye In Strawberry Drink
Under pressure from vegetarians and vegans, Starbucks plans to stop using a red dye made from crushed bugs called cochineal in some strawberry drinks and rosy-hued baked goods by the end of June.
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia: Not Just A Potted Pet. Now It's Health...
The Aztec people believed chia seeds gave them the power to run faster and longer. Today, they're the latest healthy diet trend. But don't eat those old holiday gifts growing out of clay pots, the company recommends.
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Drinking On The Job: Is 2012 The New 1966?
The TV show Mad Men has won fans for breathing life — and a heavy whiff of bourbon — into the fictional workplace of the 1960s. And it seems that some U.S. companies are still at it — at least, they're making sure their employees have easy access to liquor and beer.
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Plan To Slaughter Horses For Human Consumption Is Met...
A proposal to slaughter horses in New Mexico highlights this country's unique aversion to horse meat. It's the first since the federal government lifted a ban on slaughter for horse meat.
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13th-Century Food Fights Helped Fuel The Magna Carta
A greedy king who seized food was a key driver of the Magna Carta. That 13th-century document was a key inspiration for the American Revolution 500 years later. But at the time, the barons who negotiated the deal weren't concerned with the rights of starving peasants — these 1 percenters wanted to protect their own power and property.
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Rice: A Rainbow Of Possibilities
It's an ingredient with the power to define a culture. And if, like food writer Monica Bhide, you grew up eating only white rice, it's time to branch out: Green bamboo rice, black "forbidden" rice, red rice and sticky rice are just a few varieties that bring distinct flavors and textures to special preparations.
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Rice: A Rainbow Of Possibilities
It's an ingredient with the power to define a culture. And if, like food writer Monica Bhide, you grew up eating only white rice, it's time to branch out: Green bamboo rice, black "forbidden" rice, red rice and sticky rice are just a few varieties that bring distinct flavors and textures to special preparations.
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Food Stamps Helped Many Families Weather The Recession
Food stamps helped buffer effects of the economic downturn for millions of families, a new report says. The benefit was particularly strong for children.
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Fast Food In The U.S. Has Way More Salt Than In Other...
Fast-food items in the U.S. are much saltier than the same items in Europe, according to new research. France and the United Kingdom had the least salty food overall.
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Is 'Tuna Scrape' The 'Pink Slime' Of Sushi?
"Tuna scrape," or ground up raw fish, has sickened more than 100 people with salmonella. Grinding up raw fish may increase the risk of outbreaks, food safety experts say.
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Revealing The Revolting Beauty Of Food Waste
One third of food is wasted worldwide, according to the U.N. Photographer Klaus Pichler gives rotten food the glamour treatment to make that point. But will it make us be more careful about how we buy and use food?
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Dining With Disaster: Reviving The Last Meal On The...
Dining on the doomed ship Titanic was epic, and many people are recreating those feasts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ship's demise. First-class passengers feasted on oysters, foie gras, and other luxuries.
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Advice for Diet Soda Lovers: Skip The Chips
What diet soda drinkers eat may matter more than what they sip when it comes to long-term health effects, according to new research. This may help explain why some people gain weight when drinking lots of diet soda.
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What's The Scoop On Bulk Foods?
Shoppers might expect food to be cheaper in the bulk aisle — and a study from Portland State University shows that it usually is, by a long shot. But our survey of D.C. grocery stores came up with more modest figures. What's the real deal?
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The Bacon Sundae: Brilliant Or Tragic?
Burger King's new dessert is available at a limited number of locations. It is just the latest example of a fast food chain following a trend that high-end eateries embraced years ago.
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Kids Will Have To Cut Serious Calories To Halt Obesity...
Children and teens are going to have to cut calories or get a lot more exercise to stop the obesity trend, new research says.
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Fishermen Net Gold In Silvery Eels Sold To Asia
A worldwide shortage has made the U.S. the primary source for the baby eels known as elvers. Last year, fishermen saw prices climb to nearly $1,000 a pound, and this year they doubled.
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FDA Launches Voluntary Plan to Reduce Use of Antibiotics...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it will collaborate with the livestock industry to reduce the use of antibiotics in animal feed. But activists say a voluntary approach won't go nearly far enough to protect human health.
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Should 'Pink Slime' Be Labeled?
The federal government says that labeling of the product as an ingredient in ground beef has never been necessary under current food safety and disclosure laws. But some companies are moving ahead to label the product anyway to appease consumers.
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Sometimes, Food Additives Are Pretty Innocuous
The uproar over what critics call "pink slime" in some ground beef refocused attention on what's in the food we eat. Most packaged foods contain at least one item you wouldn't recognize. But many food experts caution that just because you don't know an ingredient doesn't mean you shouldn't eat it.
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No Ordinary Bake Sale: Simply Made From Scratch
Churn out your own show-stopping sweets — like whoopie pies and Pixy Stix — in little more time than it takes to make cupcakes from a box or pick up something from the store. Having the right recipes on hand is a good first step.
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Time For A 'Bug Mac'? The Dutch Aim To Make Insects More...
Dutch scientists are trying to make insects a less exotic and cheaper food source. And one Dutch restaurant, Specktakel, is already embracing the trend by featuring a menu buzzing with entomological eats.
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No Ordinary Bake Sale: Simply Made From Scratch
Churn out your own show-stopping sweets — like whoopie pies and Pixy Stix — in little more time than it takes to make cupcakes from a box or pick up something from the store. Having the right recipes on hand is a good first step.
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More, Better, Faster Sushi? Call In A 'Sushi Bot'
Wired reports that "sushi bots" were among the eye-catching products at the World Food and Beverage Great Expo, which just wrapped up in Tokyo.
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Now On The Menu For Hungry Kids: Supper At School
More families in financial stress are relying on schools to feed their children breakfast, lunch and dinner. In the past few years, a federally subsidized school dinner program has spread from six to all 50 states.
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Fast Food Chains In Cafeterias Put Hospitals In A Bind
Hospitals trying to eliminate unhealthy food from their cafeterias are finding that uprooting fast food chains isn't easy.
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Eggs Become Art To Celebrate Life's Rebirth
Cultures around the world decorate eggs to celebrate spring. Modern artists continue those traditions, reflecting the fragility and beauty of life.
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Spilled Or Not, Cries Remain In Raw Milk Debate
Weekend Edition food commentator Bonny Wolf is trying to understand if the glass is half-full or half-empty when it comes to arguments for and against raw, unpasteurized milk.
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Guerrilla Grafters Bring Forbidden Fruit Back To City...
In many metropolitan areas, urban foresters ensure flowering fruit trees don't bear fruit to keep it from being trampled into slippery sidewalk jelly. But a group of fruit fans in the San Francisco Bay Area is surreptitiously grafting fruit-bearing tree limbs onto those fruitless trees.
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Indian Engineers Build A Stronger Society With School...
The program, which is run by engineers, currently feeds 1.3 million children, making it one of the largest school lunch programs in the world. The program is so cost-effective it's become a Harvard Business School case study.
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Early Spring Has Farmers Battling Frost At Night
The early spring has been great for recreation and those with cabin-fever, but it's been a headache for farmers and other growers. In Wisconsin, orchard and vineyard owners have trees and vines in early bloom, but are now up at night battling frost.
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Goodbye, Manischewitz; Hello, Cabernet?
These days, there are hundreds of quality kosher wines, so there's no need to dread the four glasses involved in the ceremonial Passover Seder. Host Michel Martin discusses the expanding world of kosher wine with Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of the National Synagogue, and wine aficionado Yossie Horwitz.
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Lust, Lies And Empire: The Fishy Tale Behind Eating Fish...
A long-standing myth holds that Catholics eat fish on Fridays because of a secret pact a medieval pope made to sell more fish. That's just a fish tale. The real story behind fish Fridays is much better.
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Some Jews Say Bugs Have No Place At The Seder Table
Some Orthodox rabbis say that if you're keeping to the spiritual interpretation of what is kosher, you've got to get the bugs out of your vegetables.
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Chocolate Bilbies, Not Bunnies, For An Australian Easter
In Australia, the bunny may rule the burrows, but the bilby, a native marsupial whose population has dwindled, rules the Easter basket.
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Milk Not Jails Makes Partners Out Of Farmers And Ex-Cons
Small dairy farmers and ex-cons don't make natural allies. But a non-profit group, Milk Not Jails, is hoping they can forge a new urban-rural relationship in New York state based on food rather than incarceration.
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Panel: To Safeguard Food Imports, It's Not Just About...
For a long time, food safety experts have complained that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn't have enough port inspectors to adequately catch contaminated imports before they reach consumers. But a report from the Institute of Medicine says the focus should be on helping other countries regulate better.
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Carrots: Beyond The Relish Tray
A staple on raw veggie platters and relish trays, or commonly tossed into a soup or pot roast, carrots often just blend into the background. But carrots are so complex in both flavor and aroma, they deserve much more.
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Carrots: Beyond The Relish Tray
A staple on raw veggie platters and relish trays, or commonly tossed into a soup or pot roast, carrots often just blend into the background. But carrots are so complex in both flavor and aroma, they deserve much more.
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'Nature's Barcode' Tells The Story Of Foods' True Origin
As recent food mislabeling scandals show, a food's true identity and origin often get lost along the supply chain. Enter the "optical stable isotope analyzer," a device that could provide a lot more certainty about a product near the end of its long journey to the consumer.
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French Muslims Ease Cultural Tensions With French-Halal...
Halal meat butchers have a reputation for quality in France. And with an estimated 6 million Muslims now living there, halal products are becoming increasingly popular, and sometimes political. Now one French-Algerian restaurant is trying to make French-Halal fusion food official.
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What's Inside The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger?
Thiamine mononitrate, disodium inosinate and pyridoxine hydrochloride are just a few of the hard-to-pronounce ingredients in a typical school lunch burger. But some schools are phasing processed food out and are bringing scratch cooking back to their kitchens.
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Beef, Tarantula And Gout: Food Critics Suffer, Too
Former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni recently revealed he has gout. It's hard for most of us to feel too sorry for people who get paid to eat free meals at posh restaurants, but food professionals will tell you: Eating asks a lot of your body.
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Feds Reject Petition To Ban BPA In Food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration called on a high-powered team of government scientists to help answer several key questions about the safety of bisphenol a. Their results suggest it's very unlikely that BPA poses a health risk to people.
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Is That A Crushed Bug In Your Frothy Starbucks Drink?
Cochineal is a red dye made from a crushed insect native to Latin America. Some vegetarians are distressed that Starbucks uses the dye in some of its pink-colored food and beverages.
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The Economic Impact Of Killing 'Pink Slime'
"Pink slime" has been all over the news recently. Now the fear over the so called slime is beginning to have economic effects. This week Beef Products Incorporated, or BPI, temporarily closed down a total of three meat processing plants in Kansas, Texas and Iowa. The social media backlash over the processed meat may end its use, which could mean a lot of lost jobs. So the governors of those states are doing damage control. On Thursday they toured the only BPI factory still open, in South...
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Watch The Wire: How Your Grill Brush Could Make You Sick
Between May 2009 and November 2010, Rhode Island Hospital admitted six patients to its emergency room after they accidentally ingested small wire bristles from the metal brushes used to clean the grill.
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Studies Show Why Insecticides Are Bad News For Bees
Two new studies, published in the prestigious journal Science, suggest that one class of insecticides poses a more serious threat to bees than government regulators realized.
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What Is Community Supported Agriculture? The Answer...
As community supported agriculture grows in popularity, some farmers are reinterpreting the idea to reach new consumers. Traditionalists worry that people are being diverted from the values that originally defined the CSA movement.
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What Foodies Heard During This Week's Supreme Court...
When the Supreme Court justices talk, they let the food metaphors fly. Food, it turns out, is very handy if you're trying to find easily digestible ways to explain complex legal issues, as the justices proved this week. Here's our quick list of where food showed up in the arguments.
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Battling 'Red Tide,' Scientists Map Toxic Algae To...
Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to prevent outbreaks by tracking when and where red tide in Puget Sound will happen next.
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In Defense Of Broccoli
Broccoli has come up several times this week at the Supreme Court during arguments the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Unlike the health care debate, the vegetable doesn't have a single attorney on its side. Melissa talks to Ron Midyett, CEO of Apio Inc., a grower/shipper of broccoli.
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Why 'Pink Slime' Isn't That Different From Other Meat...
Consumers who led the fight against "pink slime" had food safety concerns and objected to the industrialized image of liquefied meat. But meat scientists say lean finely textured beef isn't much different from other products that end up in processed meat, like ham or turkey.
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Take Time To Savor The Borek, A Flaky Turkish Snack
Savory fillings are rolled up in dough to form half-moons, narrow cigars, coiled snails or ornate roses, or cut into dainty squares from a large pan. It's like a little gift-wrapped package with a delicious surprise inside, built for enjoying slowly.
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Activists Say Americans Support Labeling Genetically...
A coalition calling itself Just Label It released the results today of a survey it commissioned from The Mellman Group, a national pollster. The survey found that 91 percent of voters favor the labeling of food with genetically modified ingredients.
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Take Time To Savor The Borek, A Flaky Turkish Snack
Savory fillings are rolled up in dough to form half-moons, narrow cigars, coiled snails or ornate roses, or cut into dainty squares from a large pan. It's like a little gift-wrapped package with a delicious surprise inside, built for enjoying slowly.
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Shad Are Angling To Once Again Be The Tasty Harbinger Of...
For centuries, the shad run signaled that spring had arrived. But pollution, dams and overfishing decimated the once-mighty American shad. Now young chefs are working to rekindle a taste for this seasonal, local treat.
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Does A Chocolate Habit Help Keep You Lean?
New research suggests that frequent chocolate consumption may favorably influence metabolism. It adds to the growing evidence that our bodies may not treat all calories the same way.
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'Pink Slime' Maker Halts Production, But Ground Beef...
Beef Products Inc., says it was forced to close three out of its four plants, to protect itself and its employees. But it stands behind the safety of its product, calling the "pink slime" brouhaha a series of "unfounded and misguided attacks."
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The Mad World Of 'Mad Men' Food
Prepare your aprons and your rye — Mad Men is back — and with it an unofficial cookbook inspired by the food of the popular AMC show set in the 1960's. The cookbook looks to the restaurants, bars and kitchens that serve as a backdrop to some of the series' most memorable moments.
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Cooking School Spreads Immigrants' Skills And Ethnic...
Culture Kitchen, a San Francisco company, hires first-generation immigrants as cooking instructors. It tries to find talented cooks who wouldn't normally be teaching because of a language barrier or lack of formal training.
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Europe's Mixed Record On Animal Antibiotics
Yesterday, a federal judge ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to proceed with a 1977 plan to outlaw the use of certain antibiotics as growth promotion drugs for livestock. American farmers are unsure about how this could impact their industry, but there's a real-world example that provides some answers: Europe, and specifically Denmark.
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How Homegrown Charcoal May Get Your Garden Through A...
Biochar has enjoyed a certain revival because it can pull and store the carbon in greenhouse gases from the air. Everyone from California grape growers to home gardeners on YouTube are trying it out.
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Kitchen Calamity? Now You Can Tweet For Help
The Food52 Hotline, a new service on Twitter, promises 24-hour cooking advice, and it delivers. But don't expect an instant answer in the middle of the night.
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Wal-Mart And Grocers To Offer Beef Without 'Pink Slime'
Wal-Mart has become the latest food retailer to announce that it's making changes after listening to customer concerns about lean finely textured beef, known by detractors as "pink slime."
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Murray Lender, Who Introduced Many Americans To Bagels,...
He took his family bakery's bagels, slipped them into plastic bags and in 1955 started selling them in supermarkets. Now owned by Kraft, Lender's makes 750 million bagels a year.
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Into The Wild Science Of Sourdough Bread-Making
Joe Palca told his sister, a baker in Brooklyn, N.Y., about a way to make sourdough bread using "wild" yeast starter. But she had a problem: It was sourer than she liked. Was there any way to wrestle it back from its acrid extremes?
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Intense Aromas Lead To Smaller Bites
People take smaller bites when a food has a strong aroma. That explains why we nibble on unfamiliar foods. But it also might be a way for people to eat less without feeling deprived.
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Italian 'Nonnas' Bring Taste Of Home To Staten Island
Enoteca Maria, an Italian restaurant on Staten Island, has no head chef. Instead, the owner brings in Italian grandmas to cook up the regional dishes they learned from their parents and grandparents.
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Doesn't Take Much To Do It Yourself In The Kitchen
For home cooks with enough interest and imagination, the do-it-yourself world is practically limitless. The store-bought stuff just can't match what's made from scratch — from cured salmon to a Nutella-inspired chocolate spread.
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At The Community Garden, It's Community That's The Hard...
In cities across the country, most community gardens are divided up into individual plots. It means if some of your neighbors start shirking their responsibilities, it's not really your problem. But there are also still a lot of people doing communal-style gardens.
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There's More To Fixing Food Deserts Than Building...
A study finds that low-income shoppers care about more than just cost and proximity to fresh produce — they also want choice and quality if they're going to buy it.
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Ringing In Norouz, A Time For Family And Good Eats
For Iranian-Americans and for others from the Middle East, Central and South Asia, the first day of Spring is also Norouz, the beginning of a New Year.
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To Find Out About Food Allergies, First Use The Right...
Not all tests sold to diagnose food allergies really work. The gold standard is eating a food with a doctor to see if it sparks a response, and taking a careful medical history.
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Meat Substitute Market Beefs Up
According to a U.S. product database, 110 meat substitute products were introduced in 2010 and 2011. All those new products are giving people who are looking for tasty alternatives to meat a lot more choice.
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Sandwich Monday: Pancakes & Sausage On A Stick
Breakfast is a great way to tide you over from Pre-Breakfast to Brunch, but it's not always portable. That's why Jimmy Dean invented the "Pancake & Sausage On A Stick." That, and he wanted to punish us.
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Pakistan-India Rivalry Extends To TV Food Fight
Steve Inskeep and David Greene take a look into Foodistan, a new TV show that pits Pakistani and Indian chefs against each other. The first season finishes up this week.
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Drunk On Biology For St. Patrick's Day
This drinking song celebrates the biochemistry of getting drunk, the hangover that ensues, and the microorganism behind it all.
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Cause Of Foul Pine Nut Taste Befuddles Scientists
Scientists trying to decipher the source of pine nut mouth, a vile taste some people get after eating the nutritious nuts, say they've been stumped in trying to detect a chemical signature for the problem.
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Chances Are 'Pink Slime' Is In Grocery Store Beef, Too
An estimated 70 percent of the ground beef supply contains these lean bits of meat derived from muscle and connective tissue. The industry calls the trimmings Lean Finely Textured Beef.
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Cameras Follow World's Greatest Sushi Chef
Jiro Ono, 85, owns a small sushi restaurant in a Tokyo subway station. The 10 seats at the sushi bar require reservations months in advance. In the new movie, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, director David Gelb explores the chef's relationships with his sons and the art of sushi-making. Gelb talks to Renee Montagne about Ono's story.
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USDA To Give Schools More Ground Beef Choices After...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it believes beef trimmings known officially as "Lean Finely Textured Beef" are safe to eat. Nonetheless, it announced that owing to "customer demand" it will give schools the chance to opt out of it in the next school year.
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In France, Politicians Make Halal Meat A Campaign Issue
France may be in the middle of an economic crisis, but politicians seem more interested in talking about halal meat and religious dietary rules. It all began when National Front Party presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that non-Muslims in Paris were unwittingly eating halal meat.
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Fish And Spices Top List of Imported Foods That Make Us...
Outbreaks caused by imported foods are up — and so is the amount of imported food that Americans eat. Fish and spices are the biggest culprits. That's according to new data from the CDC.
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'Foodistan' Takes India-Pakistan Rivalry To The Kitchen
The cooking show, which will have its semi-finals next week, pits Indian chefs against Pakistani chefs. It exploits the long rivalry between the two countries — something that has rarely been a joking matter.
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Escarole, Cinderella Of The Chicories
This subtle relative of bitter chicories may masquerade among the lettuces, but it's not just for salads. Sturdy escarole stands up to a saute, simmer or braise; with heat it seems to mellow and ripen in flavor, growing only sweeter for the ordeal.
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North Dakota Food Writer Shows Why It's OK To Like The...
Marilyn Hagerty's review of the new Olive Garden in Grand Forks, N.D., sparked snarky comments from big-city food bloggers. But she's got the last laugh. The 85-year-old grandmother is off to New York City to report on dining options there.
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The Big Gulp: Dolphins Don't Have Time To Savor Their...
Dolphins can't taste sweet, savory, and bitter tastes. In fact, they might not be able to taste their fish at all, according to a new study. That might be because they swallow fish whole.
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Death By Bacon? Study Finds Eating Meat Is Risky
People who consumed about one serving of red meat (beef, pork or lamb) per day had a 13 percent increased risk of death, compared with those who were eating very little meat, a study found.
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How A Sunflower Gene Crossed The Line From Weed To Crop
All of our food crops are descended from plants that once grew wild. But the line that separates a despised weed from a valuable crop is sometimes a very fuzzy one.
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Sandwich Monday: In-N-Out Imports
This week, we smuggled sandwiches from California to Illinois. Turns out they travel well. We ate Double-Double Animal-Style burgers roughly 20 hours after they were made.
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Children Face Dangers On Farms, But Not From Farmwork
Injuries to children on farms cost the nation $1.4 billion a year, according to a new study. But most of the injuries and deaths happen to children and teens who aren't working on the farm.
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To Cut The Risk Of A High-Fat Meal, Add Spice
Researchers have found that a meal loaded with spices like turmeric and cinnamon helps cut fat levels in the blood — even when the meal is rich in oily sauces and high in fat.
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Why Monsanto Thought Weeds Would Never Defeat Roundup
In 1993, Monsanto told government officials it didn't think its genetically engineered seeds would ever lead to resistant weeds. Now, it's clear the company was very wrong.
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Is It Safe To Eat 'Pink Slime'?
Thousands of people are adding their name to petitions urging the government stop buying beef trimmings. But food safety officials say the trimmings are still safe to eat.
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How To Get More For Your Bite
When you crunch into a potato chip or take a spoonful of chocolate mousse what you experience is more than just the taste of the food. In her book Taste What You're Missing, Barb Stuckey discusses why truly experiencing food involves all five senses and offers tips on how to get more enjoyment from your next meal.
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Insect Experts Issue 'Urgent' Warning On Using Biotech...
This week, a group of scientists sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging farmers to stop planting genetically engineered corn with a certain gene because it will no longer protect them from the corn rootworm. If the recommendations are put into practice, it could cause major changes in the way that seed companies like Monsanto do business.
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A Seed Company That Helped Presidents And Immigrants...
The D. Landreth Seed Co. store in Philadelphia counted American presidents from George Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelt as customers. But today the company is struggling to survive as eager gardeners seek seeds elsewhere.
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Celebrity Chef Mario Batali Settles Lawsuit With His...
Mario Batali needs to keep his hands out of the tip jar, according to his waitstaff. The celebrity chef and restaurateur, along with a business partner, have agreed to pay $5.25 million to more than 100 former workers who say the owners kept some of their tips.
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Hundreds Battle For International Cheese Glory In...
This year's World Championship Cheese Contest received a record 2,503 entries from 24 countries. Traditional heavyweights in the U.S. and France were well-represented, making it tough for first-time competitors from India, Estonia, Romania and Croatia to catch the judges' attention.
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The Secret To Glowing (Yellow) Skin? Eat Your Fruits And...
Eating lots of fruits and veggies gives skin a slightly yellow hue. And that's considered more healthy and attractive looking, according to a new study.
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When Food Aid Goes Local, Some Say It Works Better
Food security experts have long debated whether it's better to ship bags of rice and corn from the United States to the hungry overseas, or to buy food close to where it's needed. New research suggests most of the time, it's better to buy food close to where it's needed.
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Inhalable Caffeine Maker Gets Warning Letter From FDA
When the inhalable caffeine product, known as AeroShot, hit college campus stores back in January, it caused a buzz, not all of it euphoric. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned the company that makes it about the labeling and safety of its product.
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Reagan's Unsung Legacy: Frozen Food Day
Former President Ronald Reagan would surely be pleased to know that many of his legacies remain vital in 2012, from campaign pledges to lower taxes to ketchup's classification as a vegetable. Reagan is also responsible for a lesser-known contribution to American food culture: National Frozen Food Day.
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Happy Birthday! Oreo Cookie Turns 100
The first batch of Oreo cookies was made at the original Nabisco bakery in New York in 1912. The company is releasing limited edition "Birthday Cake" Oreos.
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Slow-Cooker Meals: A Warm Welcome Home
When the air is chill and the day is hectic, there's nothing like arriving home and bursting through the door to find hearty aromas beckoning you to the kitchen — especially if it's a meal that practically cooked itself. A little prep work and a few hands-free hours is all it takes to make curry, meatballs, Mexican stew and more.
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Farmers Face Tough Choice On Ways To Fight New Strains...
In large sections of America's farmland, new strains of weeds are making life miserable for farmers. They've developed resistance to the country's No. 1 weedkiller, Roundup. Now farmers face a choice: Do they go for yet another kill-all-the-weeds chemical, or go back to more complicated, labor-intensive ways of fighting weeds?
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Coca-Cola Modifies Caramel Color To Avoid Cancer Warning...
California recently listed a compound found in caramel color used to make colas as a carcinogen — a claim the industry denies. But to avoid cancer warning labels on soda cans, manufacturers like Coca-Cola are now switching to a new formulation of the coloring.
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Slow-Cooker Meals: A Warm Welcome Home
When the air is chill and the day is hectic, there's nothing like arriving home and bursting through the door to find hearty aromas beckoning you to the kitchen — especially if it's a meal that practically cooked itself. A little prep work and a few hands-free hours is all it takes to make curry, meatballs, Mexican stew and more.
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In Hong Kong, A Growing Taste For Organic Food
Demand for organic and local food is rising in Hong Kong. But people find supply limited and expensive, mirroring the early days of the organic movement in other countries.
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Vegan Soul Food With A Side Of Soulful Music
In his new book, Inspired Vegan, chef Bryant Terry writes about how healthy eating can start in your backyard. He also offers up soulful vegan recipes paired with the music that inspires his cooking. Host Michel Martin talks with Bryant Terry about delicious vegan cuisine.
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Most Of Us Just Can't Taste The Nuances In High-Priced...
Do you buy that $100 Malbec, or will the $15 bottle fit the bill just as nicely? New research suggests your biology may help determine whether you can really taste a difference.
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Sustainable Sushi: See The Video. But Don't Eat The Eel
Can sushi be sustainable? Yes, says one Oregon restaurant. It's selling that message in a popular new video. But most sushi purveyors aren't on the sustainability bandwagon.
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Raw Milk Proponents Don't Trust Health Officials
Public health officials will have a hard time convincing raw milk advocates that the product is dangerous, according to a new study.
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Kids Don't Mind If You Put Veggies In The Cake
Kids surprised researchers at Columbia University by being just as happy with some treats even if they knew they had vegetables. The cookies were another matter, though.
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Bloggers Replace Mom's Recipe Box As Source Of Food...
A new study says social media having an increasingly bigger influence over our food habits: Half of consumers use social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, to learn about food. Almost as many seek out recipes on blogs and websites.
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High Levels Of Arsenic Found In Rice
Researchers at Dartmouth College recently found high levels of arsenic in rice. Particularly high amounts were found in brown rice syrup — a sugar substitute used in foods aimed at young children.
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Seattle's First Urban Food Forest Will Be Open To...
A community group in Seattle is transforming a 7-acre plot of land into a forest of fruit trees where neighbors will be encouraged to forage and meet each other.
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States Crack Down On Animal Welfare Activists And Their...
Iowa is poised to join several other states that have passed or are considering what activists call "ag gag" laws. Such legislation criminalizes undercover photography or video inside animal farms.
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Hey Locavores, Are You Creating Jobs?
Obama appointees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture say grants and loans supported by its Know Your Farmer initiative are a win-win that create new jobs and more locally produced food. Critics say the program serves the foodie elite and urban locavores at the expense of conventional farmers in rural America.
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Truffles Take Root In Appalachian Soil
New techniques and years of patience are helping American farmers produce black Perigord truffles, once a rare European delicacy. Chefs and foodies love the rich, earthy flavors and freshness; growers love the boutique price.
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Pintxos: The Flavors Of Spain, On A Toothpick
These skewered arrangements of preserved and fresh meats, cheeses and vegetables are a Basque contribution to the regional tradition of tapas, or small plates. Creating colorful patterns and explosive flavors in one bite, pixtos facilitate mingling, talking and sharing among guests.
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Newfoundland Gives Whole New Meaning To Ice Cold Beer
Spring brings in one very unusual business in northern Canada: iceberg harvesting. Every spring, icebergs break off Greenland and float south. For residents of Newfoundland, on Canada's Atlantic coast, icebergs are a regular seasonal sight, but they still have some special qualities that Newfoundlanders are serving up with a dash of alcohol.
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Pintxos: The Flavors Of Spain, On A Toothpick
These skewered arrangements of preserved and fresh meats, cheeses and vegetables are a Basque contribution to the regional tradition of tapas, or small plates. Creating colorful patterns and explosive flavors in one bite, pixtos facilitate mingling, talking and sharing among guests.
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Weird Winter Has Gardeners Itching To Plant, Despite The...
Gardeners are wondering whether this very warm winter means planting time's come early, too. Go forth and plant, our expert says. But be prepared for the heartbreak of a late frost.
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Chef Trotter Transitions From Kitchen To Classroom
Chef Charlie Trotter helped pioneer American fine dining at a time when French cuisine reigned on the food scene. After 25 years, Trotter will close his namesake restaurant — Charlie Trotter's — in Chicago, Ill., to pursue a Master's in philosophy and political theory.
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When Food Truck Horns Meet Wedding Bells
Food truck owners around the country are finding that catering events like weddings is an increasingly appealing alternative to braving downtown streets at lunchtime.
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