The Food and Drug Administration has begun stopping imports of Chinese dairy and dairy-based products from entering the country in an effort to keep out food contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine.
Melamine is the chemical at the heart of the Chinese infant formula scandal that has killed at least two infants and sickened more than [...]
The second part of the largest residential real-estate transaction in Erie County’s history has closed.
A Cleveland-based hedge fund trader, who remains anonymous, has closed on the second portion of the sprawling Russo family estate in Hamburg.
According to documents filed Thursday afternoon in the Erie County Clerk’s office, the hedge fund trader — through his Phantom [...]
The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all the overtime they want.
The workers make Spam, perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the [...]
Harry & David, the nation’s leading retailer for premium food gifts, today announced a partnership with Wine.com to offer exclusive food and wine gifts.
Premium food and wine gifts are available now, in time for the holidays, at harryanddavid.com and also in catalogs that are arriving in homes nationally.
Harry & David is the marketing agent for [...]
“Bottled water sales in the past have grown mainly from consumers moving to water from soda and other sugary beverages,” fueled by rising childhood and adult obesity rates. But ads for bottled water don’t push the health angle, because many bottled water companies also sell soda. For example, Aquafina is made by PepsiCo and Dasani [...]
The first disadvantage of the disease model is that, for individuals with addiction problems, it is distracting. If I drink too much alcohol, my attention would best be focused on what I need to do about this behavior. By focusing on reducing or stopping my drinking, perhaps I can be successful on my own, or [...]
Grocery sellers are poised for a hearty holiday season as harder-to-get credit and rising unemployment promise to keep consumers close to home and family.
U.S. shoppers, who have been putting off purchases of clothes, furniture and cars in what could be the worst retail environment in three decades, are stretching their food dollars by visiting fewer [...]
A man who forced a chicken to drink whisky and blew cannabis smoke in its face before suffocating it has been spared jail by a County Durham court.
Gary Maxwell, 21, Drink News also smashed another hen’s head repeatedly against a shed wall until its neck snapped.
after the judge heard he had quit drink and drugs.
Maxwell, [...]
It seemed like there was a time I could hardly browse around the LA blogosphere without bumping into some article about cupcakes. What is it with these daintily sized desserts? Certainly LA had good normal sized cakes before Sprinkles. Is it just that it’s a convenient serving size where a regular cake is too much [...]
In Synetic’s production of Host and Guest, even the pantomimed act of suiting up for war is a thing of lyrical beauty.
The show is based on an epic Georgian poem and a remounting of a previous production in response to the recent conflict in the region. The story of Host and Guest is a rather [...]
