Food and Beverages

Dim Sum = Yum

I tried Dim Sum this past Sunday for the very first time. My friends and I went to MingHin Cuisine in Chinatown. I have wanted to try Dim Sum forever and was so happy to be finally enjoying it! We tried so many delicious things including MingHin’s shrimp dumpling, stuffed sticky rice in lotus leaf, pan fried […]

Coupon Crazed

I am all for saving money, but sometimes I am amazed by the crap people buy just because it is on sale or they have a coupon for it. I was looking through the food coupons the other day and noticed that most of them were for foods that lack any nutritional value. Extreme couponing is now on […]

Have you heard of Z Trim?

Last Wednesday, I attended a GastroIntellectual Property Law Symposium at Chicago-Kent College of Law. It was great listening to Nick Kokonas, Jackie Leimer, Brian Chaiken, and Charles C. Valauskas dicuss how new innovations in food and technology may or may not need to be protected by patents and copyrights. One food innovation that stood out that night […]

Is Juice the new Pop?

It amazes me how many Americans believe that juice can be drank in unlimited amounts. I think all the confusion started with the saying, “eat more fruits and vegetables”…the problem is that most Americans went for just the fruit and then juiced it. Now, I would personally rather eat my food than drink it, but […]

Isn’t FOOD Already “Natural?!”

Guest Post By: Whitney Fontaine As a food scientist, one of the trickiest things I do is researching and interpreting the law. Have you ever looked at the law – I mean, really read it? Trust me, it’s confusing, even if you know what each word means. Well, food law is no different. Now, many […]

Soda Tax? Boston Tea Party move over…

I have been in Washington DC for the past four days at the American Dietetic Association’s Public Policy Workshop. At one session, we had a great soda tax debate. However, I don’t think we will be dumping any soda in the Boston Harbor anytime soon. It is true that obesity rates have continued to rise in the U.S. […]

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