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Kellogg's and General Mills Among Oxfam America's Worst Offenders

When it comes to rating big food brands like Kellogg's and Coca-Cola, Oxfam America looked beyond their flavor, price value, and even the content of their nutrition. Instead, it was more about each company's environmental and social impact in the countries they set up manufacturing plants. The non-p ... More >>

Kellogg's Recalls Special K Due to Glass Pieces

Special K comes in flavors including blueberries, red berries, "chocolatey delight," "chocolately strawberry," cinnamon pecan, fruit & yogurt, oats & honey, and vanilla almond. And now you can add a new ingredient to the mix -- glass fragments. Coming right on the heels of Nestle's recall last week ... More >>

Mini-Wheats Recalled Due to Contamination With Metal Pieces

We know they're iron-fortified, but ... Kellogg Co. is recalling 2.8 million packages of Mini-Wheats cereal due to possible contamination with pieces of metal mesh. Now that's a cereal that stays crunchy in milk. The company expects the recall to cost it $30 million, the Wall Street Journal report ... More >>

How Wall Street and Washington Conspired to Spike Gas Prices

By Pete Kotz On July 11, 2008, the price of oil rose to $147 per barrel, a record high. Gas stations engaged in hot pursuit as the price of a gallon rocketed past $4. All hell was about to break loose. The country's largest banks had already begun to implode through arrogance and ineptitude. Now t ... More >>

Red, The Return to Morality, and the Artist as Subject

John Logan and Jamie Pachino's plays examine the concept of true self for artists with false names

Corporations v. Egg Producers: An Egg on All Your Faces

kjetil_r/flickrEggs, frying​Ever since Aristotle wandered the supermarkets, philosophers and scientists have been wondering which came first: the chicken or the egg. Aristotle went with both, saying neither could have preceded the other. Around 2000 years later, Stephen Hawking favored the ... More >>

Study Names 10 Worst Children's Cereals

Flickr/Dalboz17Apple Jacks ranked as the 8th worst kids cereal​According to a new study by the Environmental Working Group, some children's cereals contain more sugar than Twinkies and Chips Ahoy! cookies. The worst offender, Kellogg's Honey Smacks, is nearly a whopping 56% sugar by weight. Fo ... More >>

Squid Ink's Most Beloved Discontinued Products: Well, A Few of Them

DSL in Jaz/flickrWe hardly knew you.​ Our favorite convenience foods are like friendly co-workers holed up in the next cubicle over. We meet them, like them, grow accustomed to their presence in our lives, and then, just as soon as we realize we can't quite imagine life without them, they di ... More >>

Jean Maxime Perramon -- Big-Time Hollywood Animator, 'Bionic Six' Artist -- Killed on Shoulder of 101 Freeway in Thousand Oaks

Pepper Films Inc​Updated after the jump: Jean's friends and neighbors provide more details about his life and death. Jean Perramon pulled over to the side of the 101 North at about 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, stepping out of his Ferrari momentarily to check its tire for a piece of metal he though ... More >>

Cal Poly Pomona's Pumpkin Festival

D. GonzalezPumpkin field at Cal Poly Pomona​ Generally, it's still considered poor manners to play with your food. However, it has always been in good taste to decorate with your food, especially in the fall. Most markets carry only a handful of mostly lethargic or likely plastic items, like ... More >>

Q & A With Chris Kimball of Cook's Illustrated: Jello, Calf Brain Appetizers His New Book

J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

October Unprocessed: Q & A With Food Blogger Andrew Wilder, Unprocessed Food Man

Want to eat healthier, feel better and live longer? A million suggestions are out there on how to do just that, but a good place to start might be processed foods. As in, not eating them. Doritos, M&M's, Oscar Mayer wieners, McDonald's french fries -- could you do away with them all? Okay, how about ... More >>

Froot Loops, Other Kellogg Cereals Recalled

Flickr/ZanastardustConsumers have complained of a waxy, metallic or soapy odor and taste. ​ Do not open that box of Apple Jacks. According to a report Friday in the Christian Science Monitor, Kellogg Co. is recalling the apple-cinnamon-flavored cereal along with Fruit Loops, Corn Pops and Hone ... More >>

Q & A With José Andrés: His TV Show, What Should Be In Your Pantry & Cooking with Ferrán Adriá

José Andrés' beautiful fun-house of a hotel restaurant, The Bazaar, has been open for about a year and a half now, where the Spanish chef has been serving up cotton candy foie gras, little tin cans of King crab and raspberries, and olive oil pancakes to a crowd variously composed of hotel guests, ... More >>

Kellogg's Branding Corn Flakes With Lasers: No, This is Not A Joke

Ranchers brand their cattle, chocolatiers etch their logos into the bars of single origin 70%, cheese-makers stamp names onto the rinds of their cheeses, but corn flakes? According to Daily Mail Reporter, Kellogg's UK is now considering burning its logo onto its corn flakes. Flake by individual flak ... More >>

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