Samantha Bonar

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are reporting a listeria outbreak in California and Maryland connected to cheese. So far just eight people have been infected in the two states, but seven have been hospitalized and one (in California) has died. Five of the illnesses, two mother-newborn pairs and......

Portlandia returns for its fourth season next Thursday, Feb. 27, but IFC is offering a sneak peek of one of Fred and Carrie's most hysterical skits ever, a short film noir called "The Celery Incident." Marty (Steve Buscemi) has been tasked by his mean boss lady (Carrie Brownstein) at Produce Sales Headquarters......

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service on Monday shut down a problematic California slaughterhouse that provides beef for the National School Lunch Program. Hanford's Central Valley Meat Co. was shuttered for failing to meet cleanliness standards. This is the same delightful spot that the USDA closed......

Remember that giant beef recall we reported last week? Did you happen to muse about where that 8.7 million pounds of "diseased and unsound" cow parts might have ended up? Well, some of it made its way into Hot Pockets! (That thud you just heard was every stoner in L.A. fainting.)......

Washington-based Nutriom LLC is recalling more than 226,000 pounds of processed egg products due to possible salmonella contamination. The products were shipped nationwide and to U.S. military installations in the United States, and abroad, as well as to Canada. The dried egg products were produced between Feb. 28, 2013 and......

If you were thinking of doing the healthy thing and ordering the nopales tacos, you might want to just go ahead and get the carnitas. The California Department of Public Health is warning people not to eat cactus imported from Mexico because it is laden with unapproved pesticides, according to Food......

Sodas and other sugar-sweetened drinks sold in California would be required to carry a warning label under a new bill introduced in Sacramento Thursday. The label would warn would-be imbibers of the risks of obesity, diabetes and tooth decay should they proceed. It's an ironic twist of fate for a......

Eating yogurt may help protect against type 2 diabetes, a new British study suggests. Scientists at the University of Cambridge found that people who ate on average four and a half servings of yogurt each week reduced their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 28% compared to those who......

You'd think buying Valentine's gifts for your special foodie friend would be easy - but not so fast! Were you thinking a nice box of chocolate truffles? Yawn. A bottle of Champagne? Snore. But, it's really fancy Champagne! Filing nails. Oh, how about a gourmet picnic? I'm sorry, I forgot I......

A California company is recalling nearly 9 million pounds of beef because it processed "diseased and unsound animals," according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (8.74 million pounds, to be exact).  Rancho Feeding Corp. of Petaluma also processed the meet without full federal inspection, according......