Samantha Bonar

If you make people sick because you sell dirty food, the government would like you to know it is no longer playing. On Thursday, U.S marshals acting on behalf of the U.S. Attorney's Office with the Food and Drug Administration arrested two brothers who owned and operated a Colorado cantaloupe......

We realize this could be a fool's errand for Butterball, since there are no aspiring actors or chefs in Los Angeles. However, for the first time ever, the company is looking for men to be, er, spokesmen for the company, and wannabe actors/chefs would be just the ticket. To qualify......

Before the 65th Annual Primetime Emmys this Sunday there are, of course, the pre-parties. One of the most lavish is the one thrown at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills every year by HBO for the actors in their nominated (and other) shows such as Girls, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Game......

Almost 60,000 pounds of ground beef produced in California and bound for the National School Lunch Program have been recalled because it contains pieces of plastic. And we're not talking Happy Meal toys. According to Food Safety News, the federal government's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a......

Remember when food trucks were for construction workers and college students? And then tired yuppies discovered them, and then twee hipsters. Now, apparently, all hell has broken loose. There's a new word in the food truck universe, and that word is fancy. The Four Seasons Hotels has just debuted its......

If you're paying $225 a pound for civet poop coffee, you want to make sure you're getting the real sh ... deal. Some say that the taste of the world's most expensive coffee beans, which pass through the digestive tracts of Asian palm civets when they eat coffee cherries in......

After years of worry, we may finally be starting to get some answers on how safe our rice really is. For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has tested a broad array of rice products for arsenic. In more than 1,300 samples, the agency found that levels vary......

Good news for winos oenophiles! Alcohol is a depressant, but drinking wine in moderation may lower your risk of depression, according to new research. The Spanish study followed more than 5,500 light to moderate drinkers, between 55 and 80 years old, for up to seven years. The study participants had......

The secret to Diana Nyad's historic Cuba to Florida swim may have been the custom silicone mask protecting her face from jellyfish stings. And that makes Stefan Knauss of Pasadena's Aesthetic Prosthetics the secret behind the secret. After toxic jellyfish stings to her mouth thwarted Nyad's 2011 attempt at the......

Chobani is recalling some of its Greek-style yogurt cups after some customers were sickened by mold, the Associated Press reports. The recall comes about a week after the company started asking retailers to pull the products from shelves because some cups were "swelling and bloating." They declined to declare a......