Today’s Menu: Pizza, Chicken Fingers & E. Coli Burgers

Massive recall of beef sold to school lunch programs
As a food blog I strive to bring my readers useful tips, recipes and stories about exciting new ingredients or food service establishments.  Unfortunately, my posting for 2008 is starting off like ‘07 ended: with a post about another massive meat recall.
This past November I commented on [...]

Where’s the (Uncontaminated) Beef?

Recalls continue
It has been the year of ground beef recalls as even Wegman’s, recognized earlier in ‘07 for changing the way supermarkets operate, has had to recall batches of meat possibly tainted with E. coli.
The Wegmans recall earlier this month was part of a larger recall, some 1 million pounds of ground beef, by Cargill Inc.
On [...]

Why Greens Cost So Much Green

or Big Mac Welfare
Ten dollars would buy me more Big Macs and bottles of corn syrup than it would brussel sprouts (which are great sauteed until caramelized with soy sauce and then covered to steam and finish), ever wonder why?
The guys over at the Water Buffalo Press suggested ol’ government was at fault but those [...]

Spitz Gets Organic

NYS Governor Eliot Spitzer has been on his city-by-city Upstate Economic Development Tour and Tuesday’ stop in Rochester was momentous.  The Rochester portion has been well-covered and I would just like to highlight a couple of incentives of interest to HOH readers:
Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park Project (Ontario County): The Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology [...]