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Category Archives: Food
How Bay Area Technologists Can Fix Your Thanksgiving Fixings
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Are you a klutz in the kitchen? Or just suffering from holiday performance anxiety? The high-tech wizards of the Bay Area stand ready to assist. To begin with, San Francisco's Chow Magazine is offering a series of online videos about … Continue reading
No More Gopher Flesh: Oakland Kids Chow Down on Veggies
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At my elementary school, and probably at yours, we sang a subversive little song about the cuisine served to us in the lunchroom that involved greasy grimy gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat, and oven-fried parakeet. All of it pretty unappetizing … Continue reading
Raw Milk From Fresno County Dairy Recalled
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Raw milk and cream from a Fresno County dairy are being recalled after tests found the bacteria campylobacter in the cream. The California Department of Food and Agriculture said on Wednesday it is recalling Grade A … Continue reading
Michael Pollan Responds to Study Finding 'No Significant Health Benefit' to Organic Food
You may have heard the NPR story this morning about the meta-study from Stanford University, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which found "no significant health benefit" to organic food. As physician R Dena Bravata, the study's co-author, told … Continue reading
Red Vines Black Licorice Recalled Due to Excessive Lead
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KQED's Sarah Baughn today spoke to Pat Kennelly, chief of the Food Safety Section for the California Dept of Public health, about the recall of one lot of Red Vines Black Licorice Twists. The department found more than twice the … Continue reading
Tuna Packers Settle with District Attorneys
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities say three major tuna packers failed to meet federal requirements for the amount of fish in their cans and have reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with several Southern California district attorney offices. San Diego County District … Continue reading
Calif. Food Processor Recalls More Onions, Celery
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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California grower and food processing firm has expanded its voluntarily recall of packaged onions and celery because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Oxnard-based Gills Onions … Continue reading
Video: Martuni's, The Last Piano Bar
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Nineteen ninety-nine. That's pretty much the last time the local and national zeitgeist felt convivial enough for me to share an intimate, alcohol-infused musical experience with complete strangers. But that shouldn't stop you from checking out this cool companion video … Continue reading
Some People in Oakland Are Now Spending Their Lunch Hour Dancing
by Durrie Lawrence If you’re getting bored of that daily tuna sandwich in your cubicle, it may be time to check out Lunch Beat. What began as one hour of midday dance in Sweden has inspired an international following, with … Continue reading
Study: Nearly 4 Million Californians Cannot Afford Enough Food
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by Joanna Lin, California Watch For Larry Sly, executive director of the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, the good news is that the number of people the food bank serves has leveled off over the past couple of … Continue reading
