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Kitchen Intermediates: Egg Pan

A cast iron skillet is a basic necessity. Other useful skillets would be a sauté pan, which has rounded sides making flipping food easy. But probably the best second pan to have is an egg pan.

Happy National Ravioli Day!

Take a pasta pillow to lunch — and eat it! Do you have a favorite kind of ravioli? Tell us in the comments. Here in St. Louis, that’s probably toasted ravioli, a local favorite. Ravioli are breaded and deep fried, served with a dipping cup of marinara sauce and a sprinkling of Parmesan.

A New Solution to Processed Food Safety

The food products company Cargill has a solution for its line of fresh ground beef patties used in food service businesses. The company uses High Pressure Processing (HPP) to keep the bad bugs away.

Kitchen Intermediates: Casserole Dish

Along side your baking dish and your dutch oven, a casserole is a good addition for your oven cookware.

Sorry, Charlie-san?

The FDA sent inspectors to American Samoa to look at the StarKist canning facility there and came away with serious concerns. The agency says these concerns are serious enough to possibly result in an involuntary recall of all the company’s products.

What do you think about Genetically Modified Foods?

I see GM foods as being not much different from what farmers, agronomists and backyard gardeners have been doing for centuries.

Today’s recalls and concerns

Is plastic lean? You might wonder if you eat a lot of the Lean Cuisine line of frozen entrees and dinners. Nestle Prepared Foods has recalled more than 10,000 pounds of its Spaghetti with Meatballs dinner become some consumer have found pieces of plastic in their dinners. No one has been injured. Click on the [...]

Subway Surpasses McDonalds: Good or Bad?

The Subway sandwich shop chain has surpassed McDonalds for the number of stores around the world.

News: More Food Scares And Recalls

A new string of recalls has appeared in the news. Some of them are fairly minor and limited. Others are pretty significant.