A series of headline-grabbing recalls, including several involving frozen food products, has drawn protests from consumer advocates and brought a century-old system of regulation and inspection in the United States into question. Although criticism of the US government for lax enforcement began with...
Federal regulators said Tuesday they'll inspect meat from bigger and riskier plants more often to try to reverse rising E. coli outbreaks in hamburger. The U.S. Department of Agriculture also reiterated new plans to check that plants have good E. coli controls and to call for...
A New Jersey company has expanded a recall of frozen hamburgers to 21.7million pounds of patties because they may be contaminated with a deadly type of E. coli, making it the second-largest ground beef recall in U.S. history. Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, N.J., originally recalled...
SEATTLE -- Earlier this year J. Patrick Boyle, President and Chief Executive of the American Meat Institute, wrote in part in the New York Times: "Since 1999, the incidence of E. coli in ground beef samples tested by the Agriculture Department has declined by 80 percent to a fraction of...
WASHINGTON AFP — America's hundred-billion-dollar fast-food market is already crowded and battling to retain health-conscious customers, but one company has people lining up to feast on its hamburgers and fries. Unlike most of corporate America, its owners shun publicity -- they politely declined an interview request -- and even...
What is it? Ground beef comes from the tougher and less popular cuts of beef, and the trimmings left over when sides of beef are carved into steaks and roasts. Grinding tenderizes the meat. You can also ask your butcher to grind meat from a particular cut of beef, such...
JAKARTA AFP — It's a whopper with fries, and that's just the price. A luxury hotel in Indonesia has launched a million-rupiah (110-dollar) hamburger, thought to be the world's most expensive, in a bid to marry the tastes of East and West. Vindex Tengker, the executive chef with the Four...
Community picnic Sunday: The Fox River chapter of the American Red Cross will host a community picnic at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Batavia Overseas Post 1197, 645 S. River St. The event will feature, music, magic, volleyball, horseshoes, balloon art and more. Hot...
Seniors have two factors on their side in an emergency -- wisdom and experience, said Hayward fire Chief Dean Montevago. But since the elderly are physically vulnerable and sometimes lack resources, it's important for them to be extra prepared for disasters. That is why...
Byline: Don Mauer Until recently if a beef recipe called for beef broth, I'd always use chicken broth. That may seem strange to you, but to me it made perfect sense. Here's why. Eight years ago I read an article in Cook's...
John J. Tunney III is a young-looking old timer who's betting that the next big breakthrough in cuisine will involve the hamburger. With 30 years of experience as a restaurateur, Tunney stacks the hamburger right up there with the elegant meals he's become noted for at his...
CHATTANOOGA, United States AFP — Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, best known as the world champion speed hot dog eater, devoured 67 mini hamburgers in eight minutes to win the World Hamburger Eating Championship. Kobayashi won 10,000 dollars by defeating 14 US rivals at the 22,500-dollar event, the richest on a...
LONDON AFP — A hamburger bun filled with bones, gristle and gory connective tissue is the latest tool aimed at weaning youngsters in Britain of fast food. The British Heart Foundation BHF launched a poster campaign Monday depicting common ingredients in hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken nuggets in an...
Byline: Reshmi R Dasgupta Apr. 28--With the world becoming a global village, we also have a more international table. From all-American hot-dogs and hamburgers to hummous and couscous from the Mediterranean littoral to the noodles and stir fries of the Far East, we now...
Meatpacker Swift and Co. Inc., Greeley, Colo., aims to put a quarter of its beef output into higher-margin, value-added meat products in the next few years, according to Chief Executive John Simons. Simons described the move as part of shaping Swift as a stand-alone company. Swift became a private company...
TOKYO AFP — A slender 26-year-old from Japan who is the undefeated champion in hot-dog eating competitions has broadened his repertoire, wowing an American crowd by munching 69 hamburgers in eight minutes. Takeru Kobayashi, who has made a full-time career out of his unusual talent and become a celebrity...
SINGAPORE AFP — A Singaporean man broke the world record for stuffing the most hamburgers into his mouth at one time as part of a weekend competition to break 10 obscure Guinness World Records, press reports said. Don Ezra Nicholas, 19, packed in three "and a bit" McDonalds hamburgers,...
SEOUL AFP ? North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has introduced one of the strongest culinary symbols of capitalist America -- hamburgers and french fries -- as "quality food" for students in the Stalinist state, reports said. A hamburger factory was built in North Korea at Kim's instructions in 2000,...
Byline: Kim Mikus After spending their careers working in various kitchens, a pair of Mexican cousins has taken over ownership of a well-known restaurant in Lakemoor. Dino Gomez and Trinidad Garcia own and operate Paradise Grill, until recently known as Big...
THE PIANIST, vocal coach and writer Paul Hamburger was one of many Austrian musicians to find refuge in Britain after the events of 1938, so enriching the country's musical life for the next half- century. Alongside established figures like the composer-scholar Hans Gal and the conductor Karl...
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