All The Bite
- Are seed libraries legal in your state?
Seed libraries have become a popular way for gardeners to share seeds with others in their community. But a recent USDA investigation has thrown the legal status of seed libraries across the country into question.
- Millennial shoppers to spawn a cheaper, trendier Whole Foods chain
Whole Foods announced plans to open a new chain of lower-priced, 'hip, cool, and tech-oriented' stores next year. The target: Millennial shoppers.
- Panera to eliminate 150 ingredients: Better food or better PR?
Panera has compiled a list of mostly hard-to-pronounce additives that it plans to eliminate from its food. But will that really improve the quality?
- Going grocery shopping? Eat an apple first.
Shoppers who eat a piece of apple before a grocery shopping trip buy more fruits and vegetables than their counterparts, according to a new study. The findings support other research suggesting that small, outside cues can have a big impact on our food choices.
- How rice farmers in Africa can point us out of California's water crisis
We can make agriculture more productive and reduce water use at the same time. California, a global symbol of innovation, is the perfect place to lead the world in realizing this progress, and rice farmers in Africa an Asia may be able to show it how.
- Shake Shack for breakfast? Burger chain adds morning menu.
Shake Shack is diving deeper into the breakfast game, adding a new breakfast menu and coffee to its location in Washington, D.C. Shake Shack breakfast menus are already available in airports and train stations in New York City and Dubai.
- Why Uber is experimenting with food delivery in NYC and Chicago
Uber is moving into the food delivery business. But is there too much competition for the venture to succeed?
- Why Tyson antibiotic-free chicken is a bigger deal than GMO-free Chipotle
Tyson Foods announced Tuesday that it would phase out the use of human antibiotics from its chicken supply by 2017, as the poultry industry at large shifts away from the practice.
- What's driving Burger King's sales surge?
Burger King just logged its best quarterly sales performance in seven years. according to the burger chain's CEO. Burger King did especially well during breakfast and in introducing new products.
- Chipotle menu now GMO-free. Is GM food opposition growing?
On Monday, Chipotle became the first major restaurant chain to serve only GMO-free food. What does that mean for the debate around genetically altered food?
- McDonald's plots an overhaul. Can it return to fast food dominance?
McDonald's will reveal the details of its global turnaround next month.
- Earth Day 2015: 20 innovators helping protect the planet
Earth Day, on April 22, is an important opportunity to highlight solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. In celebration, we're highlighting organizations and individuals producing creative and innovative solutions in the food world.
- Blue Bell Ice Cream recalls all products amid listeria outbreak
Blue Bell Ice Cream is expanding an earlier recall to include all of its products due to a listeria outbreak that has been linked to several sicknesses and at least five deaths. The recall affects Blue Bell products sold in 23 states and some international markets.
- Kraft changes its Mac & Cheese recipe. Why?
Kraft says it will remove artificial colors and flavors from its original recipe Macaroni & Cheese dinners as US customers increasingly demand quality ingredients. The new and improved Mac & Cheese will hit stores starting in January 2016.
- McDonald's all-day breakfast won't be the full menu
McDonald's will begin testing all-day breakfast in San Diego next week, but just nine items, plus coffee drinks, will be on the menu. McDonald's already knows it can cook the selected breakfast items all day alongside burgers, at least for a while.
- Protesters aren't happy with McDonald's, but neither are its franchisees
McDonald's restaurant owners are less optimistic than they were a year ago, thanks to still-declining sales and a perception that the burger giant has run out of ideas.
- ‘Fight for 15’ protesters prepare to flex their political muscles
Low-wage workers in more than 230 cities kicked off a fresh round of strikes on Tax Day in what organizers say is the 'Fight for $15's biggest protest to date. Just around the corner, however, the Fight for $15 faces a big test of its political clout: the 2016 election cycle.
- Ugly produce: a can't-miss business opportunity
If you could buy healthy, nutritious produce that looked a little different for 30 to 60 percent off the cost of regular produce, would you be interested? Tell your grocer.
- Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day: Get as much free ice cream as you want
Ben & Jerry's hosts its 36th annual Free Cone Day on Tuesday, April 14. From noon to 8 p.m. in participating Ben & Jerry's stores around the world, customers can pick up a small cone on the house.
- Oklahoma restaurant offers free meal to dumpster diver: How restaurants help the hungry
Many restaurants around the world offer programs to help the needy and to allow customers to help each other. Here's how some of the programs work.