Everyone’s a Food Writer Because Everyone Has a Story to Tell

Everyone’s a Food Writer Because Everyone Has a Story to Tell

I loved this article from thecounter.org, “Who gets to call themselves a food writer? The pandemic made it clear: We all do.” by Jessica Kehinde Ngo. Ngo teaches at an L.A. art school and her elective class on food literature mainly focused on food literary 

Request for Interview: Pretty Pink Desserts

Request for Interview: Pretty Pink Desserts

Request for interview from HARO (Help a Reporter Out) – food related: Looking for a round up of pretty PINK desserts. Anything fun or unique, but it has to be pink. Desserts can come from a restaurant, bar, cafe, bakery, etc. Picture needed. Deadline: June 

Reducing Food Waste

Reducing Food Waste

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and the EPA Administration announced a first-ever national food waste reduction goal – a 50% reduction by 2030 – joining with private industries and charitable organizations. This is after the joint USDA and EPA U.S. Food Waste Challenge initiative from 2013 

The FDA’s Trans Fats Ban: Public Good vs. Easy Formulations vs. Making Profits

The FDA’s Trans Fats Ban: Public Good vs. Easy Formulations vs. Making Profits

The FDA has given us three years to come up with something other than Trans Fats in food, having taken the GRAS label (‘generally recognized as safe’) from it. This has been a long time coming as partially hydrogenated oils, which make up a significant 

Should Supply-Demand Concerns Ever Trump Child Labor and Slave Issues?

Should Supply-Demand Concerns Ever Trump Child Labor and Slave Issues?

As I posted on the Pastry Sampler blog regarding the provision to the The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 that would end the loophole for allowing goods to come into the U.S. that were produced by child or slave labor, I wondered