By Huffington Post Do you like the taste of McDonald’s coffee, but dislike how convenient it is to buy coffee already-brewed? You may be in luck. BurgerBusiness reports that the fast food chain could soon start selling its coffee beans in packages for home brewing. The evidence for BurgerBusiness’s theory comes in the form of […]
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By Bruce Einhorn, Bloomberg On the outskirts of Yinchuan, a sleepy provincial capital near the Gobi Desert, workers put the finishing touches on Château Changyu Moser XV, a vast building with white stone walls and black-tiled mansard and domed roofs. If it weren’t for the cast-metal statues of Chinese lions guarding the main gate, it […]
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Ultimate Wing Wars, a chicken wing cook-off event, is coming to the Best Western Carson Station hotel-casino Oct. 5-7. Organized by W.R. “Willie” Davison, the self-proclaimed Chicken Wing King, bars, restaurants and catering groups will serve up their sauced wings to the public and prepare for battle. Attendees, armed with napkins and a hearty appetite, […]
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By Alyx Sacks, KRNV-TV Al and Delane Pennington never farmed a day in their lives up until about eight years ago. Now they’ve fallen into what they call a labor of love. Nestled in the heart of Washoe Valley is a 1 acre-rarity. “Can you imagine a more beautiful spot than here,” Al Pennington says. […]
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By Sarah Handel, NPR This fall, the more than 38 million kids who get their lunches through the National School Lunch Program are seeing big changes on their trays. Generally, “it’s more fruits, more vegetables, more whole grains, low-fat, no-fat dairy,” Jessica Donze Black of the Pew Trust’s Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project told […]
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By Mark Shapiro, California Watch Ten miles outside of Modesto, in the farming town of Hughson just off Highway 99, the Duarte Nursery is at the front line of dramatic changes now under way in California’s immense agriculture industry. The family-run nursery, founded in 1976, is one of the largest in the United States, and […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – It’s not often the secret ingredient is wiggling around on the counter. But that is what two chefs had to overcome during the annual Blazing Pans competition. 2011 champion Chef Sean Conry of Longboards Bar & Grill at Plumas Pines took on Chef Elsa Corrigan of Mamasake Sushi from the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Orders are already being placed – even from doctors who know this is not health food. It’s quite the opposite. But there seems to be something therapeutic about this once-a-year specialty item. While they can’t actually be bought until November, a gang of aficionados gathered on a September Sunday morning in a […]
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By Edward Cody, Washington Post PORTETS, France — When Dominique Haverlan pastes the label “Vieux Chateau Gaubert” on his wine bottles, he proclaims this to his customers: I am selling you 400 years of French pedigree, the shadow of aged Palladian buildings restored at a cost of nearly $2 million, the fruit of 87 acres […]
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By Joel Stein, Time It took nearly a year after having our son for my lovely wife Cassandra to get her body back to where it was before. It took nearly three years to get her drinking back to where it was before. For a while, she and her new-mom friends met once a week […]
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