Entries tagged with 'China'
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According to Business Week, bigwig Western chocolate companies like Nestle and Hershey are trying to please Asian tastes, given a booming chocolate industry there. Say hello to azuki-bean Kit Kats in Japan, green tea Hershey's Kisses in China, and ginseng-enriched confections in South Korea. Here we thought Abba-Zaba was crazy! Check out the article's matching slideshow....
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Eat chicken in China and you might fail a steroids test. Because of issues with tainted food in China, the United States Olympic Committee has made arrangements with sponsors like Kellogg's and Tyson Foods to ship 25,000 pounds of lean protein to China for the Olympic games. Local vendors and importers will be used to obtain other foods and cooking equipment....
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A truly terrifying story on Chinese fish farms in toxic waters. We should be very scared. Michael Pollan frames the sustainability issue in a whole new way, and in doing so he makes us see how sustainability relates to the story above. Is Francis Ford Coppola aiming to become the George Foreman of the espresso set? It will set you back $699 to find out in April when Coppola's Illy Francis Francis X7 hits stores everywhere....
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According to the New York Times, "China and the United States, seeking to ease the furor over the safety of food exports, signed an agreement today calling for a greater United States role in certifying and inspecting Chinese food exports, including an increased presence of American officials at Chinese production plants."...
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Lidded eggplant teacups can be perfectly repurposed to serve soup—while also keeping it warm. In the midst of planning and executing a Thanksgiving feast, few of us have the time or even the space for elaborate table decorations. And with a meal that tends to consist of so many textures, colors, shapes, and sizes, there’s little need for extensive embellishment, anyway—usually just a few small flourishes are all it takes to elevate the most basic table setting to the occasion. Here are three of my favorite time- and space-friendly picks for adding detail and dimension to this year’s Thanksgiving table....
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"Chef Tell," early TV chef, dead at 63: Paul Erhardt was one of America's first and best-known telechefs. "...it was his persona as the jolly chef with an impenetrable German accent, sharp knifework, cutting wit and easy recipes that made him an indelible fixture of TV pop culture, from regular appearances on Regis and Kathie Lee to comedy spots on Saturday Night Live." [Philadelphia Inquirer] Nestle to focus on "extreme food": The company plans to boost its lines of food aimed at diabetics, cancer patients, athletes, infants. "We deal with consumers at the extreme: extremely old, extremely young, extremely frail, or extremely fit," a Nestle executive said. [Reuters] Chinese arrest 774 in food scandal: Though the government is touting...
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Quanjude Restaurant, a chain in Beijing, claims to sell more more than 2 million ducks a year, hung and roasted in wood-burning ovens. "Our server handed me a red-and-gold card stating that our main course would be the 115,273,748th roast duck sold by the company since it was established in 1864, the third year of Tongzhi, Qing Dynasty. The preposterous precision was a taste of the showmanship of the place, on many a tourist itinerary."...
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Fashion plates: A creamer from Esther Derkx, a Cj O'Neill plate, a cup from Joanna Meroz's Crackery collection. Most of us have at least a few pieces of cracked, chipped, and mismatched tableware that haven’t seen a table in years, languishing in some dark upper cupboard, evidence of life past. But some gifted designers are proving that new life can be coaxed out of such old pieces, yielding functional, provocative works of art, worthy of any table....
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Don't blame us, say U.S. ethanol makers, in response to the high price of food. [Washington Post] Meanwhile, European food prices surge, too. [Reuters] A new foot-and-mouth scare in England. [The Telegraph] French couple raises the country's only certified-organic snails. Vive le free-range escargot! [The Telegraph] In Japan, fast-food chains jump on the trans-fat–banning bandwagon. [Asahi Shimbun] And China and the U.S. reach a food-safety agreement while Chinese officials plan to use GPS to track and safeguard Olympic food shipments. [Voice of America; AP] Back to the U.S., and there are more recalls on canned food. This time it's green beans. [Detroit Free Press] File under "obvious": For pre-schoolers, flashy packaging more important than flavor. [Fox News] Your RDA of...
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According to Reuters, the Chinese government has arrested the Chinese television reporter who allegedly fabricated the story of finding cardboard in the pork buns sold on the street in Beijing. Here's the scoop: A report directed by Beijing TV and played on state-run national broadcaster China Central Television last Thursday said an unlicensed snack vendor in eastern Beijing was selling steamed dumplings stuffed with cardboard soaked in caustic soda and seasoned with pork flavoring.Beijing authorities said investigations had found that an employee surnamed Zi had fabricated the report to garner "higher audience ratings", the China Daily said on Thursday. [via Serious Eater Prairie, in Talk]...
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