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Eat the Week National: National Pizza Party, Ready the “Money Bomb,” and Soda-Pop Hike

Eat the Week National: National Pizza Party, Ready the “Money Bomb,” and Soda-Pop Hike

May 5, 2012
by Alexander Moysaenko
Columns, Eat the Week, Food, Headline, News

1. A mystical alliance created this week for and by the figureheads of several major pizza companies seeks to secure their right to not disclose…

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Eat the Week National: Reagan’s Contribution, Seattle’s Eden, and Rootworms’ Resistance

Eat the Week National: Reagan’s Contribution, Seattle’s Eden, and Rootworms’ Resistance

March 10, 2012
by Alexander Moysaenko
Columns, Eat the Week, Food, Headline, News

1. Where would we be today without Ronald Reagan’s vicious chin and actor’s poise posting up in yesteryear’s White House? (Don’t answer that.) Probably without…

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Eat the Week National: Pity on Pigs, Loads of Lobbies, and Kombucha Capital

Eat the Week National: Pity on Pigs, Loads of Lobbies, and Kombucha Capital

December 18, 2011
by Alexander Moysaenko
Columns, Eat the Week, Food, Headline, News

  1. This Thursday, the top global producer of pork products, Smithfield Foods Inc., announced their intentions of phasing out entirely by 2017 the use…

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Strange Brews and Beverage News: Climate Change Affecting Wine Grapes, Blazing the Dunkin' Trail, White House Honey Ale

Strange Brews and Beverage News: Climate Change Affecting Wine Grapes, Blazing the Dunkin’ Trail, White House Honey Ale

October 11, 2011
by Chris Kornman
Drink, Featured, Headline

Climate change continues to make headlines. In a research paper published earlier this summer, scientists allege that warming in California’s wine growing regions may decrease…

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Eat the Week: Taco Bell’s Long-Overdue Engagement to Doritos, Confiscated Pot Supplies Re-Purposed, State Sandwich Showcase, and Parenthood of the Traveling Genes

Eat the Week: Taco Bell’s Long-Overdue Engagement to Doritos, Confiscated Pot Supplies Re-Purposed, State Sandwich Showcase, and Parenthood of the Traveling Genes

October 8, 2011
by Alexander Moysaenko
Columns, Featured

1. Have you ever imagined what a corporate brainstorming session at Taco Bell HQ is like? Picture a group of five or six loosely fitted…

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Eat the Week: Subway Conquers McDonald's, Rush Limbaugh vs. Michelle Obama, Google Reveals Recipe Search, and Minnesota Gives Fast Food Immunity

Eat the Week: Subway Conquers McDonald’s, Rush Limbaugh vs. Michelle Obama, Google Reveals Recipe Search, and Minnesota Gives Fast Food Immunity

February 25, 2011
by K. Tighe
Columns, Featured

1. Subway has toppled McDonald’s from its throne as the largest fast food retailer in America. The quick-sammy franchise has nearly 34,000 locations — compared…

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Eat the Week: Cannabis Cuisine Goes Legit, Food Safety Bill Becomes a Pipe Dream, Elmo Visits the White House Kitchen, and No One Can Pronounce "Saveur"

Eat the Week: Cannabis Cuisine Goes Legit, Food Safety Bill Becomes a Pipe Dream, Elmo Visits the White House Kitchen, and No One Can Pronounce "Saveur"

December 17, 2010
by K. Tighe
Columns, Featured

1. Despite having passed the House and Senate, it looks like the Food Safety Bill may not become a law. The bill needs last-minute approval…

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Eat the Week: Spam Conspiracy, Majoring in McDonald’s, the Myth of “Pure Chocolate,” Food Network Cancels Ace of Cakes

Eat the Week: Spam Conspiracy, Majoring in McDonald’s, the Myth of “Pure Chocolate,” Food Network Cancels Ace of Cakes

November 26, 2010
by K. Tighe
Columns, Featured, Food

1. As expected, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s veto of new legislation banning toys from high calorie fast food kids meals has been overturned by…

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