Danger: Food Present

Food allergies are on the rise and on the mind.

Or read Kitchen Confidential. Not for the squeamish. Having worked in restaurants, hotels, and bars here and abroad, most are cleaner than a typical home. You aren’t shut down for hygiene (in all but the extreme cases), the...

Warning to all eaters of street souvlakis, chicken kabobs, etc.: Out of nowhere a few weeks ago, dozens of carts appeared on our Hell’s Kitchen (Clinton South, if you prefer) block in the mornings preparing their food for...

I make it a practice to take advantage of the fact that most California counties fulfill their obligations to post restaurant inspection results by doing so online. This may be true in many other states—don’t mean to...

The good old Beeb reports that an estimated 300,000 street-food vendors in Delhi may have to shut down in the face of a court order.

The new Food & Wine has a startlingly good essay on the importance of bringing human touch back into the kitchen.

Small Polish farmers are crushed by the EU’s modernize-or-else bureaucracy.

A caffeine addict will do anything to get his fix—even make coffee with ragged old underwear.

Burger King introduces a jaw-dropping new … personal hygiene product.

Can’t there be at least one restaurant at the corner of Queen & Parliament where the word "hygiene" isn’t something you only utter when you see Mr. Simmons walking towards you?

Mm-hmm. Hate that. I expect it’s just one detail too many for most of them. Hygiene requires that they keep it in the fridge most of the time, and no one troubles to see that it comes out to soften before being served.

Go ahead, start looking at the restaurant inspection reports for your favorite eateries. You’ll be sorry.

? I bought my Pesach meat at KRM and wasn’t happy with the quality/hygiene.

Someone gave me a jar of this stuff. What on earth does one use it for? Meat? Shellfish? Personal hygiene?

Is it me or is Bill Buford harsh on the character/hygiene of his subjects in this piece? I didn’t make it to the jump to Brazil yet, but his writing on Mr Dagoba surprised me.