Fruits & Vegetables

Craig “Skip” Julius is one chef who gets around. Over the years, he’s racked up countless miles on the nation’s interstates and flyways. En route, he’s learned, among other lessons, this pearl of local lore: the best place for a quality hot dog is, in fact, the Motor City.“Even though I don’t live there anymore, whenever I connect at Detroit ...

Have you ever wondered why new ingredients are created? Which comes first, the ingredient or the problem that the ingredient was created to solve? This classic chicken-or-egg question has important implications for how the ingredient is researched and ultimately marketed. Unlike finished goods sold at retail and in foodservice, industrial ingredients are more likely to come into being due to ...

Health-care reform may have bumped national food-safety legislation from the top of Congress’s agenda in 2009, but the food industry can expect a new push in 2010 to enact laws aimed at strengthening the U.S. food-protection system. Although it could be another year before regulations are promulgated, a number of additional federal efforts to modernize the nation’s food-safety system are ...

For the better part of a century, freezing has proven a highly effective method of food preservation. Nevertheless, today’s product developers—and the ingredient processors, packaging experts and technology innovators who serve them—keep striving for greater culinary integrity, shelf life and value in the products they freeze.Compared to refrigerated foods, which hold their connection to freshness dear but have a shelf ...

No one, it seems, can resist the appeal and charm of the all-American hamburger. The iconic food has been headlining on our plates more than ever in the last decade, offering familiar comfort during a decade of uncertainty. With the recent recession, burgers have grown in importance and meaning, becoming a welcome and affordable indulgence, as well as a way ...