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Books: Addicted to Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss' recent cover article in the New York Times Magazine, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, served as a preview for the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter's latest food industry exposé: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. As Moss says, processed foods are a $1 trill ... More >>

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 >>

Lean Cuisine Recalled Due to Glass Shards

Lean Cuisine is recalling ravioli dinners because of glass fragments found in the pasta, the Food and Drug Administration reports. The voluntary recall of Lean Cuisine Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli comes after three consumers reported they "found small fragments of glass in the ra ... More >>

The Invention of the Hot Pocket, and Other Tales From a Conference on Iranian Jews

Though Jews and Iran have had their differences, it might be surprising to learn that the history of Jews in Iran is as old and rich as Hugh Hefner. That 2,700-year history was recognized and honored this weekend at a conference held at UCLA's Fowler Museum in conjunction with its "Light and Shadow ... More >>

Nesquik Recalled for Salmonella

If you were thinking of making yourself a nice comforting cup of cocoa to deal with last Friday's spinach recall, you might want to try a glass of wine instead. Glendale-based Nestle USA has recalled Nesquik, also for possible Salmonella contamination. (That Salmonella seriously gets around.) The f ... More >>

Proposition 37: Support Declines for GMO Labeling Law

It's been a bad week for the Yes on 37 campaign, the group fighting to pass a ballot measure that would require labeling of genetically engineered foods sold in California. On Monday, another California political pundit urged voters to be wary of the measure, and on Tuesday, a pair of new polls pa ... More >>

Proposition 37 Genetically Modified Food Fight

Could spawn endless lawsuits against small shops

Nestle Acquires Stake in "Brain Food" Company

Your teeth may be rotten, but your brain will be sparkling! Nestle, best known for making candy bars like Butterfinger and Kit Kat, is branching out into "brain health products" by purchasing a stake in a company that makes milkshakes for Alzheimer's patients, The Wall Street Journal reports. Broom ... More >>

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 >>

Top 5 Classic Halloween Candies

Thinking about what to give to the mini-super heroes, pirates and wannabe princesses bound to show up at your doorstep on October 31st? Here's a list of classic candies that deserve a second chance this year. Try keeping it old school and original with these underrated sweets. Move over, Snickers an ... More >>

Top 11 Japanese Pocky Flavors

A. FrougBoxes of Giant Pocky​ Pocky isn't so much a snack as it is an equalizer, a Japanese common denominator. They arrive in bouquets of as many as 15 individual sticks, designed to be shared with anyone and everyone. For years, commercials ended in slogans like "Anata mo watashi mo pocky! ( ... More >>

Time for a New Food Pyramid? GOOD Reveals Winner of Food Pyramid Contest

USDAIs this outdated?​Remember the food pyramid? It's the thing that told us to eat less sweets, fats, dairy, and meat, and more fruits, vegetables, and grains. Well, the food world is always changing, and so too are our diets. That's why the people over at GOOD recently held a competition to ... More >>

UK Turns to McDonald's, Pepsi, to Help Write Health Policy

Pleasure PalateMcDonald's: your healthcare specialist​ And you thought our healthcare system was screwed up? The Guardian's Felicity Lawrence reported last week that the United Kingdom is getting a little assistance with their newest healthcare policy -- by bringing in McDonald's, PepsiCo, and ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen A Roast Fingerling-Artichoke Recipe

​It's inevitable that many chef-scribed cookbooks start to taste the same after a while, even with all their unique cooking styles and flourishes. They're just not the sort of how-to-cook-everything cookbooks that can hold your attention over multiple weeknights. And so no matter how great the ... More >>

Haiti's Peanut Butter Miracles

Amid that country's chaos, a St. Louis pediatrician has made ending child malnutrition her life's work

Top 10 Kit Kat Flavors You've Probably Never Tried

A licensed product of America's own Hershey Company, the American Kit Kat is a timeless chocolate bar. It's sturdy and it's brown. Like the logs that built Lincoln's cabin and equally as exciting. Yet overseas, and in the rest of the Kit Kat-eating world, the bar is made by the Swiss corporation Nes ... More >>

Reggae Chicken: Jamaican-American Fusion Food Truck Rolls Out

On Saturday afternoon, while 26 of Los Angeles' nouveau food trucks converged at the T Lofts in West L.A. for a Haiti benefit, husband-and-wife duo Regine and Chris Patterson were putting the final touches on their Jamaican-American fusion truck, Reggae Chicken, which is scheduled to roll out today. ... More >>

More Bad Cookie Dough For Nestle: Make Your Own Damn Cookies, Part 2

Food giant Nestlé reported on Wednesday that it has found E. coli in its Toll House cookie dough. Again. As you may recall, so to speak, Nestlé issued a recall last summer. Apparently two samples tested postitive at a Danville, Virginia, factory this week. Yes, there were stricter safety measures ... More >>

Q & A With Corina Weibel of Canelé, Part 2: Wooden Spoons, Cooking to OutKast

Corina Weibel of Canelé in Atwater and Jane Choi, the restaurant's GM and Weibel's business partner, run a cozy place. The menu is written on chalk on the wall, there's a big communal table near the picture window, the bar is so close to the stoves that you can talk to the chef (and even tape an in ... More >>

More Drinking From the Tap: Nestlé Bottled Water Sales Down

Nestle-waters.comNestle bottled water​A few weeks ago, we wrote about two new government reports that raised concerns about the safety of bottled water ("New Reports on Plastic Water Bottles: Question Your (Water) Sources & Just Drink From the Tap"), as well as the environmental impact of the ... More >>

Nestle Recalling Cookie Dough: Make Your Own Damn Cookies

Nestle USA Nestle's cookie baking instructionsNestle is issuing a voluntary recall of raw Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough, after the FDA and the CDC began investigating E. coli illnesses possibly relating to the product. A number of consumers reportedly became sick after consuming raw Toll H ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Young People Fucking, A Secret, Ping Pong Playa

Also, Sukiyaki Western Django, Surfer, Dude, and more

GZA's Liquid Swords of Truth

Artist performs his masterpiece in its entirety this week. Here's why you should care.

Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?

I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and ill to get off the phonetics that you were dropping. Your lines had to be crisp. Other cats don’t come from that school. It took me studying R ... More >>

No cartooning today

Here are three collages, all untitled.  I've always found the titling of abstract art counter-intuitive to the point of the medium.  Labeling a non-literal piece of art with a title like "Dignity" or "Ice Cream Salamanders Sliding Over Vickie's Backside" is both intelle ... More >>

No cartooning today

Here are three collages, all untitled.  I've always found the titling of abstract art counter-intuitive to the point of the medium.  Labeling a non-literal piece of art with a title like "Dignity" or "Ice Cream Salamanders Sliding Over Vickie's Backside" is both intellectually and emotiona ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Corn Dogs at Disneyland

Quik As F**k

The violent life, tumultuous career and fundamental goodness of DJ Quik

Cuddle Up

Put on your jammies and get close, very close, to a perfect stranger

Cock Tale: A Spiteful Rooster

Why I Drive a Hate Crime

Going down the road feeling bad . . .

From a to Tea

A guide to ready-to-drink iced teas