05/26/2009
The ALL CANDY EXPO recently conducted its yearly event in Chicago to display the latest in sweet innovations. The show did not disappoint those looking for new wrinkles in confections, some pretty neat and some not so cool.
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05/18/2009
Food Product Design launched a new, user-friendly website.
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04/09/2009
Anyone who has faithfully read my Publisher's Page surely knows that my three major food groups could be identified as peanut butter, pistachio nuts, and Oreo cookies. It should therefore not come as a big surprise that I'm feeling a little under seige right now. First we were told to stop eating peanut butter due to the threat of salmonella. They ...
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03/30/2009
I'm one of those dinosaurs who still reads three or four newspapers every day. My list includes the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune ( although its' recent redesign has me thinking about looking elsewhere ) and the NY Times. Granted, I don't read them all cover to cover, but I find each has its' strengths and I don't feel fully ...
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02/25/2009
After taking a beating in the world of media reporting, the National Peanut Board is taking some very high-profile steps to counteract all the negative publicity that has cast doubt in consumer minds as to the safety of products containing peanuts or peanut ingredients. Full page ads in a variety of media outlets are alerting people to upcoming events. The ...
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02/19/2009
Campbell Soup has announced it is reformulating one of its' longstanding brand franchises...... tomato soup! Why would they take this step when their traditional product consistently ranks in the top ten of grocery items purchased in the U.S. every week? Don't they remember what happened to New Coke? After extensive consumer ...
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02/02/2009
I remember when I was a child and would be tempted to tattle to my mom on one of my siblings, I would always hesitate for fear that I would be subjected to the admonishment..... "You're like the kettle calling the pot black". As I have been following the most recent peanut product recall debacle effecting our U.S. food industry, I'm feeling like my mom's ...
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