I have been working my way through an early release of “Salt Sugar Fat,” and was pleased to see the New York Times Magazine devote 14 pages to an excerpt entitled “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food.” Both the article and the book are worth a serious read. It is changing the way I
Back to Chicago for ACI Foodborne Illness Conference
I think this might be my fifth or sixth year of doing this conference. The first couple of years it was in Scottsdale where the temperature is near 80 today – Chicago, not so much.
A little bit(e) of Food Safety Advice for Thanksgiving
I get a lot of emails from people asking food safety questions. The latest was about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and its centerpiece – a turkey.
So, I turned to someone who knows, Beth Weiss of USA Today. Here are the high lights:
1. Thaw it in the refrigerator:
You, of course, thawed the turkey
UPDATE: Program Saved? President Obama, tell your kids not to eat their fruits and vegetables after August 1!
According to Food Safety News: After an uptick in press coverage on the impending shutdown of the Microbiological Data Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided to keep the produce testing program running, at least through the end of the year.
As Food Safety News reported last week, if the program were to shut