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The Kitchn's Very Own Market Bag

These days, if you walk out of the market with plastic bags in your grip, you're risking sneers from eco-chic shoppers toting re-usable bags. Time for a Kitchn market bag. They're beautiful, v...

Non-Poisonous Fugu and Weird Pantry Items
Top food news for May 5-9

Well, there's been a lot of interesting food news this week! From a non-poisonous pufferfish to salt-water irrigation to listeria contamination in sandwich wraps, we're here with the food news scoop....

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: The LA Burrito Project

Since reading about food pantries and shelters struggling with the rising food costs, we've been struggling with how we might be able to help out. There's one man out in California who already knows ...

Reality Bites: Food Banks Hit by the Rising Food Costs

Reading this article from the Boston Globe, "Squeezed by Prices, Pantries Ask for Help," should have felt like more of a shock. But really, it just made grim sense. Of course food pantries and homele...

Target Rips Off FRED & Friends?

This makes us sad. We really like FRED & Friends' products; they are fun and whimsical yet practical. We loved meeting up with their team at the Housewares Show. Now today we saw on their blog tha...

Supermarket Closings Make Fresh Food Less Accessible

We're often seen here hooting and hollering and get all excited every time a snazzy new grocery store opens. We've brought you new Whole Foods (ostrich eggs, anyone?), Trader Joe's, Fairway and Fresh ...

NYC CSA News: Has Anyone Tried Farm Share?

If you want the benefit of CSA produce but don't have time to pick it up every week, Farm Share may be your solution. We had never heard of it and are curious if anyone in the New York Kitchn communit...

Test Tube Hamburgers, Food Carbon Footprints & Rationing
Top food news for April 28 - May 2

It's Hump Day, which means we're back with the weekly food news roundup. Read on ......

Get Ready to BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag) to Whole Foods!

We saw this sign at our local Whole Foods yesterday, a nice reminder that the stores will stop using plastic bags on Earth Day, April 22nd. There will still be recycled paper bags at checkout, but the...

Salmon Fishing Ban, Grocery Budgets, Mangosteens, and Raw Milk Ban Possible
Top food news for April 14-18

Here's our weekly food news roundup. Read all about food-borne illnesses, grocery budgets, irradiated food, and more!...

Mission Accomplished! The Cindy McCain (Or Is That The Food Network) Recipe Challenge

Remember when we posted the Cindy McCain recipe challenge? We said that any patriotic reader who made all seven of the recipes listed on McCain's website as "McCain Family Recipes" would receive a Dem...

Food Coloring, Slaughterhouse Suspensions, and Corn-Based Film Fighting Bacteria
Top food news for April 7-12

It's Hump Day, and that means we're here with this week's food news roundup. Come on in and read about why the humble potato might be the replacement for wheat, GMO foods, a recall of espresso beans,...

International Home and Housewares Show 2008

Chris, Faith, and Janel are all at went to the International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago. It's a massive convention and expo that draws all the biggest brands and manufacturers of goods for ho...

Checking In On... Fresh Direct's Green Initiatives

Oh, Fresh Direct. The name gets our juices (and yours) flowing. We love the convenience, we hate the trucks idling on the side of our block. We love selection and prices, we hate the lone head of cabb...

Buffalo Mozzarella, Compostable Bags, and Cheap Food
Top food news for March 31-April 6

Here we are with the weekly roundup in food news! Read all about a ban on buffalo mozzarella, compostable bags, and resources for cheap food behind the jump....

Grocery Store News: Harris Teeter to Finally Open in DC?

Harris Teeter has signed on to open a 50,000 square foot store at Constitution Square in the NoMa (North of Massachusetts Ave.) neighborhood in DC. But despite some reports that claim it will be the f...

This Kitchn Is Always Open: Send Us Your Questions

As a new season begins we thought it was time for a friendly invitation and reminder that our Kitchn is always open for questions, comments, submissions, thorny cooking problems, and encouraging stori...

Ohdeedoh's Now You See It, Now You Don't Contest

At Ohdeedoh, Apartment Therapy's site all about modern homelife with children, we're teaming up with Cookie Magazine to find some great solutions for the STUFF that comes along with kids, particularly...

Maple Sugar, Rising Food Prices, and Curry Leaves
Top food news for March 24-30

It's been a busy week in food news! We've pulled together a roundup for your perusal....

Cantaloupes Recalled Due to Salmonella Contamination

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall of cantaloupes from Honduran grower Agropecuaria Montelibano. They have been found to contain salmonella, a bacteria that causes food-borne illnes...

Pharmaceuticals Found in US Tap Water

Last week, the AP reported that a wide array of prescription drugs including antibiotics, sex hormones, and antidepressants are being found in water supplies across the United States....

France Says "Non!" to Genetically Modified Food

Genetically modified food is quite common in the United States, but Europeans have long been suspicious of it, particularly in France....

Urban Agriculture: Raising Chickens in New York City

We've missed the lectures that Owen Taylor, city farms training and livestock coordinator at Just Food, has been giving about raising chickens in NYC. Twice, actually. But we had to know more about th...

Chinook Salmon Fishing Ban Possible in 2008

A collapse in wild chinook salmon populations has prompted the US Fish and Wildlife Service to seriously consider closing the 2008 salmon fishing season from northern Oregon to the Mexican border. Th...

Health Alert: Listeria Contamination in Costco Chicken

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that Costco was recalling approximately 10,368 pounds of frozen chicken that may be infected with listeria....

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