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NY's Tavern on the Green restaurant bites the dust - Yahoo! NewsTavern on the Green, once America's highest-grossing restaurant, is singing its culinary swan song. The former sheepfold at the edge of Central Park, now ringed by twinkling lights and fake topiary animals, is preparing for New Year's Eve, when it will serve its last meal. Just three years ago, ...
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Scientists find frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogensMost countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and colleagues have found that this trade is a potential ...
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the-accidental-hero.html: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! FinanceSubway's $5 footlong, the brainchild of an obscure Miami franchisee, is the fast-food success story of the recession Stuart Frankel isn't what you'd call a power player in the world of franchising. Five years ago he owned two small Subway sandwich shops at either end of Miami's Jackson Memorial ...
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USDA report examines organic sector’s ‘revamped marketing’The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has compiled a report on the marketing of organic food, which it says aims to respond to a dearth of information on the fast-changing sector. Although certified organic acreage has doubled in the US since 1997, organic food sales have quintupled over the ...
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Rising acidity levels could trigger shellfish revenue declines, job lossesOcean acidification could harm a wide range of marine organisms and the food webs that depend on them. Mollusks -- including mussels and oysters, which support valuable marine fisheries -- are particularly sensitive to changes in seawater pH. Intensive burning of fossil fuels and deforestation ...
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Top 5 Coolest Vending Machines of 2009Vending machines are all about offering convenient services for consumers, and in a world where we have trouble slowing down; vending machines are capturing every niche market. I've written about a wide variety of vending machines in the past, but read on, because these ones are newer vending ...
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A victory for cheese eaters? US-EU trade spat defused.A trade war that pitted hormone-treated beef from the United States against gourmet food items from the European Union (EU) appears to have been averted. In the US, this means wedges of Roquefort cheese won't be tripling in price. Proposed punitive duties against 34 other "luxury" food products ...
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Pizza-making machine has chefs in a spinA vending machine that bakes fresh pizza in minutes for a few euros has got Italian chefs in a whirl before it hits the streets in the coming weeks. The bright-red "Let's Pizza" machine uses infra-red rays and technology developed at the University of Bologna to knead flour and water into ...
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ABC News: Foodies Celebrate White House Veggie GardenMichelle Obama has said she wants to make the White House vegetable garden an opportunity to talk about America's diet. "We want to use it as a point of education, to talk about health and how delicious it is to eat fresh food, and how you can take that food and make it part of a healthy diet," ...
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The City that Ended Hunger :: Belo Horizonte, BrazilA city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I ...
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