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 [...]
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 [...]
I try to attend as many of the events as I possibly can, as the combination of food (or drink) and company always guarantees an enjoyable experience. So when the Slow Food Columbus “Shake the Hand That Feeds You” Locavore Dinner at Flying J Farm was announced, I didn’t think twice before signing Paul [...]
Since Paul has switched to working nights, I’ve been making him a lot more breakfasts. I figure since he’s making the sacrifice to work his tail off while I sleep soundly, the least I can do is welcome him home in the morning with a nice hot breakfast.
That being said, I’m not above using convenience [...]
Unlike a lot of folks in Columbus (who are still without electric and have lost entire freezers worth of food), I still have a very full freezer (I would have been so up a creek without a paddle if my electric had gone out). I’ve been trying to plan meals around the stuff in my [...]
Leave it to me to go for the obvious. The ” by Fannie Flagg. I read the book long ago - I think I was still a teenager, but even then I had a one track mind (food!) - the impression it left with me is that I really wanted to try fried green tomatoes.
Fast [...]
One of the things that I love about Cooking Light is that their pasta recipes are usually pretty awesome - you can’t really tell that they’re lower-fat. This is one that I like to use when I have leftover ground lamb laying around - most of the other ingredients are usually pantry items that I [...]
My mother passed along some of my Oma’s recipes, and although I can translate them in bits and pieces, I’m having a bit of trouble with some of the words. I’d love to be able to make some of her dishes, so if anyone can help out, I’d be truly appreciative.
I’ve consolidated all of [...]
