DRIED tomatoes at this time of year? sounds like they’re masking substandard ingredients and dodging seasonal menu changes/re-prints. sorry if I’m veering on snobby, I love blue cheese and sun-dried tomatoes in their...

"As of Thursday, FDA testing of milk-based products imported into the United States from China had not found any melamine contamination, an agency statement said." ———————- having worked in...

beef falls under USDA and not FDA labeling, makes things even worse. Being allergic to corn & derivatives puts Archer Daniels Midland at the bottom of companies I trust.

Bottled water has a huge negative environmental impact on the planet. Any time you can avoid it, please do so! My children thank you for it. In the US, tap water quality is regulated by the EPA. Bottled water quality is regulated...

Here’s info on how tuna is handled for sashimi grade fish. Warning this may be too much info for your standard foodie but super foodies will probably find it interesting. A lot of care is given to keeping the fish in a...

A restaurant is serving a wide range of people and owes it to their customers to maintain the highest hygiene standards possible. What any of use may choose to do in our home is totally different from the responsibility of the...

of the sushi chefs carving up a frozen filet of salmon. Boston has many acclaimed restaurants: L’Espalier, Blue Ginger, No. 9 Park. Surely there must be a sushi restaurant of the same standard. Anyone?

golden brown, before the oil temp exceeds 370F. It delivers a very slightly inferior result compared to the standard two-fry technique, but it’s SO much quicker and easier. Credit to Joël Robuchon via Jeffrey Steingarten....

ring that works to keep your items fresh and secure... Stackable, multi-use containers meeting FDA standards for food storage and are completely odor proof and stain resistant... Dishwasher, microwave and freezer safe." Mine...

than standard yogurt, it does not compare with the creaminess of total. So I decided to experiment. I bought some cheesecloth and strained TJ’s yogurt for about 30 hours in the fridge and lo-and-behold, it yielded a...

leaves that knd of resemble parsely. About illegal items, I believe there are some products that routinely do not meet US health standards. The Customs department checks a certain amount of incoming food shipments, and they do lab...

“Definite Sushi Rankings”, you can keep looking because you’ll have better luck finding al capone’s vault. It shoulds like you are setting yourself for disappoinment every time because your standards are...

for nearly 10 years and the health inspectors up there had the same horror stories, but they still ate out any way :-)and were pretty aggressive in getting the local restaurants up to standard. Earlier this year I did several...

The FDA approved aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal)in 1981, after years of rejecting it for approval. Today, the FDA receives more complaints about aspartame than any other food chemical. Ingesting aspartame can result in the...

Well, most commercial sodas would taste awful without sweetening of some sort. But unsweetened flavored seltzers are my standard fizzy beverage. At the movies, I usually get what I was told at a couple of different places is often...