Frozen pizzas recalled: Some Jeno's and Totino's meat-topped pizzas may be contaminated with E. coli. The recall covers frozen meat pizzas produced on or before Oct. 30. Click through for full list. [dailypress.com] Food stamp program to get $1 billion more in farm bill: Savings from other areas in the agriculture bill freed up money to further fund the program as well as put $5 billion toward public nutrition through 2012. [Reuters] Portuguese takes first prize at molecular gastronomy competition: The annual Rencontres Sciences, Art & Cuisine event in Paris awarded first place to a test tube containing "a delicate and edible suspension of freeze-dried raspberry, gold chips, chopped mint leaves, and whole raspberries obtained with concentration gradients of...
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Earlier this week, Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine arrived at the office with a new brand of frozen pizza he had just found. "It's a Neapolitan-style pie imported from Italy," he said. "It's supposed to be great." I had my doubts. I stopped looking for a "great" frozen pizza long ago. When it comes to an iced slice, I like it cheap, fast, and easy, with cheap being the operative word (frozen pies are always fast and easy). So Ed was toting a boxed Margherita pizza from Pelle. "Frozen pizza from Italy?" I asked. "What's the point? And, how much did it cost?"...
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Food & Wine is actually my guilty pleasure food glossy. I know it's style- and star-driven, but it's a very well put together magazine whose editors execute their vision very well. That said, the "Taste Tests" in the front of the book almost always wimp out. I'm sure the reason is that they don't want to piss off any present or future advertisers, but the result for me is that I don't believe a word that's said in them. They tasted frozen pizzas in the April 2007 issue and reported on three, Amy's, American Flatbread, and Stouffer's French Bread Cheese Pizza. In a shocking development, they liked them all. If you need further proof that Food & Wine wimps out...
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