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LIFE / OPINION Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 11:02am neoform

www.abc15.com -- They're easy, filling and available in just about any size. No wonder, large sub sandwiches are the "must have" food of many super bowl parties. It's a no brainer right, since most party sub sandwiches are sold in 3 foot sections, that's what you'd expect.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 1:05pm neoform

ABC News -- Dog and cat owners beware: Your pet's favorite feast might be part of a major pet food recall. Menu Foods, a top pet food manufacturer in North America, is recalling canned and pouched "cuts and gravy" meals sold under 48 dog food brands and 40 cat foo.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 8:44am neoform

Alter Net -- The ethanol scam just keeps getting more and more absurd. In January, three U.S. senators -- two Democrats, Tom Harkin of Iowa and Barack Obama of Illinois, along with Indiana Republican Richard Lugar -- introduced a bill that would promote the use of eth.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Thu Feb 22, 2007 @ 3:01am neoform

Slate -- How Sysco came to monopolize most of what you eat. A hot dog from Yankee Stadium. Potato latkes from the Four Seasons in Manhattan. Sirloin steak at Applebee's. The jumbo cheeseburger at the University of Iowa Hospital. While it would seem these menu i.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Sat Nov 18, 2006 @ 9:33am neoform

BBC News -- Junk food ads during TV programmes targeted at under-16s will be banned, under rules put forward by regulators... Read More

LIFE / NEWS Wed May 7, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- A camper's worst nightmare has become a homeowner's reality for many: Bears that once rummaged around campsites now dive into suburban dumpsters and trash cans, munching on more than picnic snacks. Many human-bear conflicts are caused by human food sou.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Sun Jul 29, 2007 @ 10:41am neoform

Washington Post -- American Flatbread in Ashburn sits a few turns off the Dulles Greenway on the cusp of burgeoning suburbia. Parked in a strip shopping center behind a McDonald's and sharing a wall with a Glory Days Grill, this is an unlikely place to find a food movement... Read More

LIFE / OPINION Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 9:14pm neoform

Washington Post -- Each evening, thousands of Americans drift into Chinese restaurants or, if they are too lazy to go out, pick up the phone and order one of the most popular dishes on the menu: General Tso's Chicken, a sugary-spicy melange of dark-meat tidbits, deep-fried.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 3:45pm neoform

Alter Net -- It may sound like urban legend but it's not. A frightening trend of bee colony collapses could lead to everything from a radically transformed diet to an overall wipeout of the world's food supply. The joke may have fallen flat, but this time no one co.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Tue May 1, 2007 @ 9:28am neoform

New York Times -- He swore off beer, had to put the pricey organic bananas back on the supermarket shelf and squeezed four meals out of a single chicken, all in the name of reducing hunger. And this is not even an election year. Gov. Theodore R. Kulongoski’s decision.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 9:41am neoform

Denver Post -- La Sandia, a Mexican restaurant in the Northfield Stapleton shopping center, is struggling to find a customer base. But the food is scrumptious, and there are plenty of choices. (Post / Hyoung Chang) The first time I visited La Sandía, the new Richard.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Tue Mar 27, 2007 @ 12:20pm neoform

Denver Post -- People love their pets. They pamper them, talk to them and frequently consider them part of the family. That bond with our pets explains why the recent poisoning deaths of at least 15 cats and one dog and the sickening of untold numbers of others from.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 9:59pm neoform

ABC News -- The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found. A plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 7:49pm neoform

ABC News -- Millions of Americans treat their pets as family. Now a growing number of pet owners are taking that love to an entirely different, more litigious level. Reports of pets killed or injured by toxic pet food are on the rise and so are the stakes for anim.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 8:20pm neoform

NPR -- President Bush promoted the benefits of ethanol during a recent Latin American tour. But the fuel has drawbacks, including the possibility that significant use of corn-based ethanol could mean higher costs for a food staple in many poor nations. Rob Routs.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 10:51am mrmdc

BBC News -- A Cardiff chippy hopes to have fried its way into the Guinness records book for the world's largest bag of chips. Staff at Dorothy's in the city centre's Caroline Street, dubbed "chip alley" by generations of city revellers, worked in relays to produce.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 4:12pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Food or rent? That is the daily choice faced by about 1.2 million of New York's 8.2 million people... Read More

LIFE / NEWS Thu Nov 23, 2006 @ 9:17am mrmdc

Associated Press -- Wherever 87-year-old Lucille Mann goes, her 2 1/2-pound dog Pepper isn't far behind... Read More