December 2011
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Please give to help feed the hungry. →
Many of us are thinking about making a last-minute charitable donation for tax purposes. Please consider contributing to Feeding America so that others may share the bounty that so many of us take for granted.
Here is a link to my Virtual Food Drive: http://help.feedingamerica.org/goto/douglevy.
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Red wine enhances sex for women? Could be, study...
The “news cycle” in these days of the Internet and social media sometimes goes in circles, as it did today when someone, somewhere posted a link to a 2009 New York Daily News article that quoted a 2009 U.K. Daily Mail article that quoted a 2009 medical study about red wine and its affect on sex.
I must admit that the report is rather intriguing, even if it is more than a year...
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Look carefully: wheat additives pop up in...
I haven’t got a clue why it’s there, but right on the ingredients panel for this Swiss-made cherry preserves is wheat syrup. That’s a problem if you have a gluten intolerance. Worth noting is that this single-serve package accompanied my serving of gluten-free toast on a recent cruise. This is a perfect example of what happens when chefs, cooks and servers are not sufficiently...
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Another sprouts recall. Remember when we thought...
Look carefully if you see “Let’s Grow Healthy Together” alfalfa sprouts in your local store. Green Valley Food Corp. of Dallas is recalling 6,723 cases of the sprouts because Salmonella was found in a test sample. These were distributed in Texas. Details are available from the company via the FDA’s website.
Unfortunately, there have been way too many sprouts recalls in the...
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Another big ground beef recall
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could somehow go back to the days when people would grind their own meat at home, or maybe at least get it ground to order at a local store? That certainly would avoid gigantic recalls like this latest one, involving 41,000 pounds of commercially processed and packaged by Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., of Dakota City, Nebraska, that federal inspectors suspect may be...