Tag: restaurants
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Church-Turned-Restaurant Leaves Diners In a State of ‘Grace’
A passerby seeing the imposing church building with its massive, red doors bearing the word “Grace” and a mysterious triangular logo could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled upon some kind of new-age congregation.
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New York Public Library Starts Serving Up ‘wichcraft
The New York Public Library is teaming up with food vendor ‘wichcraft to offer snacks and drinks to readers inside the Fifth Avenue main branch for the first time in the library’s 117-year history.
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Sea World slammed for selling seafood
from barfblog: Do fish tire of eating seafood? Do fish like seafood as long as it doesn’t taste too much like fish? Do fish care if seafood is served at Sea World? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Australia thinks so, and wrote to Sea World manager Jeff Hughes asking for all fish dishes…
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‘globesization’: research says market policies, fast food driving obesity
from emaxhealth: Researchers suggest it’s free market policies that may be driving obesity. In a study, the investigators found higher numbers of fast food restaurants in a given populated area is linked to obesity rates. Since the advent of trade liberalization policies in the 1980’s, there are more restaurants that serve high calorie fast foods,…
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fast-food outlet stirs concerns in a mecca of healthy living
from nytimes: In this small city, home to a large Seventh-day Adventist community, the average lifespan goes well past 80, and it has one of the highest rates of longevity in the world according to some estimates. When researchers descended on this affluent city east of Los Angeles several years ago to determine why, the…
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ex-health inspectors nabbed on bribery charges in san francisco
two accused of bribery for selling food safety exams* from fork in the road: Two former San Francisco health inspectors have been accused of swapping cash in exchange for okaying hundreds of restaurants’ food safety qualifications, the Associated Press reports. The ex-inspectors are said to have sold up to 350 health certificates since 2007, charging…
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dna barcoding catches food fraudsters, identifies animals
from ctv: Scientists have discovered a range of new uses for a Canadian technology that can be used to peer into 30,000-year-old permafrost, detect phoney herbal medicines and catch invasive species before they sneak across borders. Researchers from around the world are fingerprinting most of the planet’s species by taking samples of their DNA and…
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usda says ‘locally grown’ food a $4.8b business
from ap: A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report says sales of “local foods,” whether sold direct to consumers at farmers markets or through intermediaries such as grocers or restaurants, amounted to $4.8 billion in 2008. That’s a number several times greater than earlier estimates, and the department predicts locally grown foods will generate $7…
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muslim finds crude 9/11 joke on his houston to-go meal
bartender at houston restaurant gives patron to-go box with ‘happy september 11th’ with picture of towers, plane from ktrk: “Happy September 11th” — three words written on a takeout box from a Houston restaurant, and they are causing a lot of emotional reactions. Since then we’ve spoken with the man who found that written on…
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Should Restaurants Be Allowed to Accept Food Stamps?
With food-stamp benefits more than doubling in recent years, the restaurant industry has decided it wants in on the action. Federal law currently prohibits restaurants from accepting food stamps, although exceptions are allowed for the disabled, elderly and homeless.
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russia becomes a magnet for american fast-food chains
Earlier in his career, Christopher Wynne put his Russian expertise to work researching arms proliferation for the American government. Now he’s engaged in geopolitics of another sort: deploying American fast food for the emerging Russian middle class. update: latex glove found in australian late-night stir fry*
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‘Fukushima Plate’ Tells You If Your Sushi Is Radioactive
Designer Nils Ferber has come up with a concept design that would put diners at ease – a plate that glows as it detects radiation in your food. The “Fukushima Plate” is an “ordinary kitchen plate with built-in radioactive meter to visualize your food’s level of contamination.
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12/23 binge & purge: hotel, motel, holiday in (cambodia)
obama to sign ‘food safety bill’ in early 2011* food safety bill proceeds after snafu fixed* terror plot to attack US hotel & restaurant food over a single weekend* al-ciada looking to attack US food?* US food chains investing in cambodia* feds order farmer to destroy wheat crops: shocking revelations of wickard v filburn* ‘save…
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10/7 Binge & Purge: Sick, Soda, Studies
Study: 63% of restaurant workers handle food while sick // Politics of food in the pacific northwest // New york seeks food-stamp ban on soda // UN says 22 countries facing food crisis
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california throws away enough food to fill 35 stadiums per year
“keep this story in mind next time you hear that nonsense from people like bill gates insisting we need gm crops to feed a hungry world.” vast amounts of food trashed despite incentives from sfgate: Farmers, restaurants and supermarkets throw away millions of tons of edible food each year at a time when a growing…