Can the can continue?
Del Monte Foods, one of the largest canned fruit and vegetable processors in the world, filed for bankruptcy earlier this week. The filing aims to stabilize the company with interim financing until a sale of the company…
Darcie
Any way you slice it
A reader comment to a recent article in The Guardian asked why bread slices have gotten thicker over the years. The same reader lamented that you cannot find thin sliced bread in the supermarket any more, and that by…
Food news antipasto
Jane and I spent the weekend at the American Library Association annual conference in Philadelphia, promoting our Library memberships. Highlights of the trip included seeing several EYB Members who stopped by to say…
Tea innovations
Forget pumpkin spice lattes, the latest thing in beverages is pumpkin spice tea. That, and along with other trends, is driving an uptick in the popularity of tea, especially in the US, which has not always been…
World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025
On Monday, the World's 50 Best announced the top 50 restaurants in the world for 2025 at an event in Turin, Italy on Monday evening. Maido in Lima, Peru was named No. 1, the second time a restaurant from this city…
Grocery store trickery
One of the grocery stores in my city vexes me to no end by its constant rearranging of products. As soon as I get used to learning where to find the items that I regularly buy, everything moves to a new location. This…
Food news antipasto
We covered the James Beard Media Awards over the weekend, but there were more honors given on Monday, when the JBF announced the winners of its Restaurant and Chef Awards, representing the best food and drink in the US.…
Strategies for when it's too hot to cook
This year the solstice brought with it a record-breaking heat wave for much of the US. When the temperatures and dew points both spike this high, standing over a hot stove for any length of time is unappealing, to say…
Are you in the rhubarb lovers' club?
I will never forget the time a 20-something coworker wrinkled her nose in disgust when I brought a rhubarb pie to the office. "Only old people like rhubarb," she said. Being only in my early 40s at the time, I bristled…
Guild of Food Writers 2025 winners announced
The Guild of Food Writers announced the winners of its 2025 awards at a ceremony in London at the Royal Institution on June 18th. At the event, Arabella Boxer was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Arabella…
Celebrity chef Anne Burrell dies at 55
We received the sad news that Anne Burrell, popular Food Network host and chef, passed away today at her New York home. Burrell was the long time host of Worst Cooks in America, which ran on Food Network from 2010 to…
Food news antipasto
We start this week with news that is sure to make you smile. A small town in Mississippi is home to the world's only apron museum. For over 20 years, Carolyn and Henry Terry have been running the Apron Museum in the…