A recent EEA briefing analysed 11 European countries, finding that in all of them people were exposed to unsafe levels of BPA.The hazardous polycarbonate plastic has been known to transfer to food and drinks due to its extensive use in food and drink packaging, where the contact between the packaging and the food causes the
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Welcome to Delicious or Distressing, where we rate recent food memes, videos, and other entertainment news. Last week we discussed the ‘Great British Baking Show’ ending national-themed weeks (for the better).Wonder how the sausage gets made? With bones, apparently. Hillshire Farm, sausage producer of note, recalled 15,000 pounds of the stuff recently for “possibly containing
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Though Miami and Fort Lauderdale are often the focus of South Florida travel, West Palm Beach holds its own as a cosmopolitan city with great dining, shopping and museums. Palm Beach has a history of being a getaway for the affluent, but across the bridge, West Palm Beach has carved out a reputation as a vibrant city with a slew of new restaurants and hotels that have attracted a younger demographic, especially in the past few years. Here is a
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The döner kebab is through to have first been served up in Istanbul, Türkiye, last century. But today, the dish – made from meat stacked on a vertical skewer, which turns slowly on a rotisserie, before being sliced and served with accompaniments – is well loved in Germany.According to a recent YouGov poll commissioned by
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MAKENA, Hawaii — Sherry Duong, executive director of the Maui Visitors and Convention Bureau, was unequivocal in her call for visitors to come to Maui — and to come now. “What the fire didn’t destroy, an empty and deserted island will,” she told attendees at Signature Travel Network’s Owners’ Meeting, held earlier this month at the Grand Wailea here. “Please go back and tell your clients that now is the time to travel to Maui to help us in this
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Many pastry chefs have a not-so-secret affinity for corn syrup. This powerhouse ingredient does much more than just sweeten. The secret to hot fudge’s thick, drippy texture? Corn syrup. The glossy sheen on those sweet buns? That’s corn syrup too. This liquid sweetener keeps caramel from crystallizing, adds gooey body to pecan pie filling, and
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ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, food director and host Chris Morocco is joined by Shilpa Uskokovic to help Lale Arikoglu, the articles director at Condé Nast Traveler and host of the Women Who Travel podcast, find meals to cook on vacation for a group with a lot of dietary restrictions.Lale and her friends
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The whitepaper from GlobalData Consumer Custom Solutions, which provides consultancy services to the retail, food, beverage and packaging industries, explores the volatility in the current macro-economic environment and the impact this will have on the beverage industry and their consumers over the next few years.Stronger economic growth along with higher interest rates, stubborn inflation, physical disruption
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Unless you or your grandparents are from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, there’s a solid chance you’ve only ever heard of shoofly pie. But tasted one? You can’t quite remember. An often overlooked regional American specialty popular in Amish country and in the Mennonite community, it’s believed shoofly pie (sometimes spelled shoe-fly pie) was first made by
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The 24 Best NewRestaurantsof 2023A whole head of cauliflower isn’t typically the sort of dish I lie awake thinking about. So imagine my surprise when I sliced into the one served at Portland, Oregon’s dazzling new Haitian restaurant, Kann. Rubbed with jerk spices, cooked over a crackling wood fire, and lazing in a cooling pool
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