Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Rossen Reports: Some trucks carry unsafe food, authorities say - TODAY Rossen Reports - TODAY.com
Do all stores and restaurants receiving foods that need refrigeration of any sort check the temperatures in the delivery trucks on arrival? Is that a state requirement?
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Record Corn Crop Predicted for NC —
You'd think a reasonably intelligent journalist would ask why we humans don't seem to eat any NC corn! Why is that?
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Mircowavably wrapped sweet potatoes and impeccably shucked corn
Is the ball getting advanced by having our sweet potatoes sold in plastic wrappers for microwaving directly and our corn sold in plastic wrapping, shucked? I am not sure.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Saving Lives In Africa With The Humble Sweet Potato : The Salt : NPR
What an opportunity Africa presents to North Carolina sweet potato growers!
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
LIVE Green » » Composting
"Reduce global warming. Food decomposing in landfills produces methane, a supercharged greenhouse gas; in your backyard compost bin, it does not."
I did not realize the difference.
I did not realize the difference.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
France: Apricot price hits rock bottom
Why is it that they cost roughly twice as much in the US? In fact, when I was in Nice last month, the price was about .75 USD/lb for excellent fresh apricots? What's up?
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Lowes Foods
I find myself confused about how I feel toward Lowes Foods. They proclaim themselves to be a family business but what I have found about their corporate structure makes me think it is a pretty odd family. Requests that they stock certain products have gone unanswered. Communications with their contact option on the website make me think I am communicating with a computer and not real people. Yesterday, I was there, and bought some peaches. I guess the checkout person put in the wrong code as it failed to reflect the sale price. As I looked at the screen at checkout I wondered why the amount purchased has to precede the item? It sure makes it harder than it should be for the customer to see how the computer and the bill are reflecting what was collected for purchase. Finally, I rarely have seen the same people twice and have no idea who is in charge of anything. Having started shopping at our local Lowes in Chapel Hill (well, they say they are in Chapel Hill but really are in Chatham) 13 years or so ago (whenever it opened), I feel today that I am seeing a whole new group of people each time I enter the store with only a couple of notable exceptions.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Black figs - Trader Joe's
Why is it that the packaging for the black figs I bought a week or so ago at Trader Joe's contained no advice on how to conserve them once at home - in the fridge or out, and nothing about likely period during which they would remain good? The manager told me to put them in the fridge and they would last only 3-5 days. Wow. I got my money back, returning what was now a package of mostly mold and some figs.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Local - Weaver Street Market
The 1-21 August 2012 flyer from Weaver Street Market has many good things in it. Of all those things, tho, only 5 items are identified as "local" - one of them being a tick repellant. What's wrong with this picture? A lot.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
Really?
Dear Terry,
Thank you for your e-mail.
I have investigated your concerns and found that the “0”, should actually be
approximately 5.7. The serving size is manually inputted into the Nutritional
Application system that creates the labels. This is what I had on
file. The information on the bottom of the panel is according
to our Quality Assurance department is a standard that we must include on all
our labels as part of U.S regulation, and the information is not reflective of
the actual product.
Please feel free to contact me
with any additional questions or concerns.
Regards,
Silvana Buttiglieri
Customer Service
ACE Bakery Ltd.
1-800-443-7929 ext. 316
(416) 241-3600 ext.316
From: Terry MAGUIRE [mailto:tmaguire@newspaper.com]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:52 AM
To: Silvana Buttiglieri (ABTH)
Subject: RE: Breakfast Bread
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:52 AM
To: Silvana Buttiglieri (ABTH)
Subject: RE: Breakfast Bread
Dear Silvana,
Thanks, but I have questions.
On the top of the nutrition
panel, it reads “Servings Per Container 0”. Is that right, “0”?
On the bottom of the same panel,
it reads “ Calories Per Gram – Fat 9 Carbohydrates 14 Protein 4”
If the serving size is 56 grams,
then this means that each serving contains 56x9 calories of fat, etc?
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Terry
From: Silvana Buttiglieri (ABTH) [mailto:SButtiglieri@AceBakery.com]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:11 AM
To: tmaguire@newspaper.com
Subject: RE: Breakfast Bread
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:11 AM
To: tmaguire@newspaper.com
Subject: RE: Breakfast Bread
Dear Terry,
Thank you for taking the time to
contact ACE Bakery.
Please find attached a picture of the Breakfast Bread as well as
the Nutritional Panel.
USA Ingredients/Allergen Information:
|
INGREDIENTS - ENGLISH USA
|
unbleached
enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, ascorbic acid, thiamine
mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, raisins, durum wheat semolina,
dates, sunflower oil, sweetened dried cranberries (cranberries, sugar,
sunflower oil), liquid whole egg, dried apricots, prune puree, sugar, dried
apples, salt, grape concentrate, pumpkin puree, malted barley flour, yeast,
cinnamon
|
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CONTAINS - ENGLISH USA
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wheat,
eggs
|
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MAY CONTAIN - ENGLISH USA
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milk,
soy, walnuts, almonds, pecans
|
Regards,
Silvana Buttiglieri
Customer Service
ACE Bakery
From: Terry MAGUIRE [mailto:tmaguire@newspaper.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 9:22 PM
To: ACE Bread (ABTH)
Subject: "Breakfast Bread"?
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 9:22 PM
To: ACE Bread (ABTH)
Subject: "Breakfast Bread"?
Lowes Foods is advertising your “Breakfast Bread”. I cannot
find it on your website. Where is it?
Terry MAGUIRE
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Worst Calzone Award goes to Delta Airlines - National World Travel Insights | Examiner.com
216 calories with ingredients listed that I was seeing for the first time ever!
Harris Teeter sweet potatoes
I noted on 28 July that the Harris-Teeter sale price on sweet potatoes was .69/lb. That sure beats the Nice price!
Provence - Le Soleil dans l'Assiette
A local advertising paper says there is a new manager at La Provence and the website tells us nothing about whether the French couple is still the owner, in charge of the kitchen, etc.