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  • Author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, here in 2007, prepares her vegan chocolate pie recipe at her apartment in New York. Ms. Moskowitz says it's easier being a vegan now because of more local produce available and more interesting ways of cooking. (Associated Press)

    Vegans no longer just an oddity

    By Michael Hill - Associated Press

    Once mocked as a fringe diet for sandal-wearing health food store workers, veganism is moving from marginal to mainstream in the United States. Published 5:06 p.m. January 5, 2011 - Comments

  • Owner Ben Starr mixes up a batch of mead at his company, Starrlight Mead, in Pittsboro, N.C. Mead, the drink of medieval verse, is making a comeback. But it isn't just the honey wine of tales. There are fruit-flavored meads, called melomels, and there are methyglyns made with spices. (Associated Press)

    Ancient brew mead makes flavorful comeback

    By Allen G. Breed - Associated Press

    Mead, that drink of Viking saga and medieval verse, is making a comeback. But this ain't your ancestors' honey wine. Published 7:36 p.m. December 29, 2010 - Comments

  • Jack Acree, executive vice president with American Halal Co. Inc. (left), and Adnan Durrani, his chief halal officer, display their products at a Whole Foods store in Darien, Conn. The company helped Whole Foods develop its first nationally distributed halal food product, called Saffron Road entrees. (Associated Press)

    U.S. caters to Muslim tastes

    By Rachel Zoll - Associated Press

    While corporations have long catered to Muslim communities in Europe, businesses have only tentatively started to follow suit in the U.S. — and they are doing so at a time of intensified anti-Muslim feeling that companies worry could hurt them, too. Published 4:56 p.m. December 28, 2010 - Comments

  • Weston Lant of Rochester, Mass., owner of Lucky Field Organics, assists customer Dean Wong of Plymouth, Mass., at Mr. Lant's indoor farm stand at Plimouth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass. (Associated Press)

    Farmers markets open in winter

    By Associated Press

    A steady stream of customers filled baskets and shopping bags with vegetables, cranberries, cheese, fresh-baked breads and pies while chatting with the dozen or so farmers selling goods in the visitor's center of a local museum. Published 5:39 p.m. December 27, 2010 - Comments

  • Bill Battles and his Border collie, Lilly, herd Mr. Battles' flock of Heritage turkeys on his Stone Pony Farm in Westport, Mass. (Associated Press)

    Heritage turkeys make a tasty comeback

    By Bob Salsberg - Associated Press

    A small but growing number of farmers are raising "heritage" turkeys, though the birds' survival may well hinge on Americans' willingness to create a market for them by putting them on their Thanksgiving tables. Published 4:14 p.m. November 24, 2010 - Comments

Recent Articles

  • First lady, Wal-Mart reach pact on nutrition

    By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

    A day after serving a calorie-laden state dinner to Chinese President Hu Jintao, first lady Michelle Obama announced a deal Thursday with Wal-Mart, the country's largest retailer and grocery store, to reduce sodium, cut prices on fruits and vegetables, and label healthful foods to guide customers. Published 8:18 p.m. January 20, 2011 - Comments

  • Top chefs make science appetizing at Harvard

    By Glen Johnson - Associated Press

    Harvard University's hottest course this fall is Physical Universe 27, or "Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science." Published 5:25 p.m. December 7, 2010 - Comments

  • EU court: No such thing as 'pure chocolate'

    By Robert Wielaard - Associated Press

    There is no such thing as "pure chocolate," the EU high court ruled Thursday, ending an EU-Italy food fight over chocolate labels. Published 9:26 a.m. November 25, 2010 - Comments

  • Obama spares turkeys 'shellacking' he got at polls

    By Associated Press

    It's official: President Obama has pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey. Published 11:05 a.m. November 24, 2010 - Comments

  • Shipwrecked bubbly, world's oldest, has hints of yeast, honey

    By Louise Nordstrom - Associated Press

    An accent of mushrooms merged with sweet notes of honey in a sampling Wednesday of what's been billed as the world's oldest champagne, salvaged from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Published 12:48 p.m. November 17, 2010 - Comments

  • Chocolate tops for trick-or-treat

    By Associated Press

    Though kids love gore and gimmicks when it comes to Halloween, experts say they still are drawn to the classics their parents favor when filling the family treat bowl every year. Published 6:57 p.m. October 20, 2010 - Comments

  • Food, drink makers push back at soda taxes, junk-food curbs

    By Andrew Entzminger - The Washington Times

    State and local governments across the nation are increasingly using the government's power to battle rising obesity rates by taxing sugar-sweetened drinks, changing food labeling and promoting exercise. And folks are starting to push back. Published 8:20 p.m. October 13, 2010 - Comments

  • N.Y. seeks to ban buying sugary drinks with food stamps

    By Sara Kugler Frazier - Associated Press

    New Yorkers on food stamps would not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being floated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson. Published 9:45 a.m. October 7, 2010 - Comments

  • Altered corn aids natural variety

    By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

    Corn that's been genetically engineered to resist attacking borers produces a "halo effect" that provides huge benefits to other corn planted nearby, a new study finds. Published 5:20 p.m. October 7, 2010 - Comments

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