In the News: Greener Restaurants, Pepsi Raw, Darker Milk Chocolate, Chopstick Wars
- More restaurants going green: Through organic products, energy-saving utilities, or implementing better recycling methods, an increasing number of restaurants are jumping on the "green trend" and making more environmentally-conscious decisions in order to cut costs. [NY Times]
- Pepsi offers healthy all-natural soda: Healthy... soda? Pepsi is coming out with Pepsi Raw, which contains natural ingredients and contains no artificial preservatives, colors, flavorings or sweeteners. [Daily Mail]
- A darker side to milk chocolate: Often trumped by its more "adult" counterpart, dark chocolate, chocolatiers are now working on "dark milk" chocolate offerings by increasing cacao content and reducing sweetness. (Uh... to which dark chocolate aficionados scoff: "Wannabes.") [NY Times]
- Getting rid of disposable chopsticks in Beijing: Environmental campaigns in Beijing are trying to get restaurants stop using disposable chopsticks, which has caused some discontent within the chopstick industry. [WSJ]
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