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如果你是一个内华达山脉的啤酒爱好者,有一个chance you might win a very bad sort of lottery: an executive for the company estimates that one in 10,000 bottles is at risk for containing chipped glass. Sierra Nevada announced today that it is recalling beer in 36 states following an inspection that found packaging flaws in 12-ounce bottles coming from one brewery in North Carolina. The recall affects eight of the company's brands, including the flagship Pale Ale, Torpedo Extra IPA, Tropical Torpedo, Sidecar Orange Pale Ale, Beer Camp Golden IPA, Otra Vez, Nooner and Hop Hunter IPA. All of the beer produced in the possibly flawed bottles were made between December 5, 2016 and January 13, 2017. No injuries have yet been reported.Find out more here.
A truck hauling rejected Skittles spilled them onto a road in Wisconsin last week, though that's only the beginning of this story. That candy was on its way to be used as cattle feed, and it is apparently a common practice for confectionery and bakery discards to be sent to cow farms: after all, they're cheap carbs.More on that here. (Even spilled all over the icy road, the Skittles were enjoying a salutary second life: local officials said they helped keep conditions safe for drivers. Related food-as-road-deicer news:in Manitoba, they're using beet juice.)
In Chicago, Whole Foods opened a store in the predominantly low-income South Side neighborhood of Englewood to fanfare and consternation: was a high-end retailer really the best fix for a food desert? The outlet opened in September, but it's been having trouble attracting customers from the area—partly,reports South Side Weekly, stemming from local perceptions that the prices at Whole Foods are high, even though they're lower for certain items than prices at nearby corner stores.
KQED reports on the"food-as-medicine movement,"a rising trend that has doctors incorporating healthy foods into their plans for patient treatment. In California, moreover, some physicians are standing in the aisles at grocery stores, advising shoppers on what they should eat. "There's no question people can take things a long way toward reversing diabetes, reversing hypertension, even preventing cancer, by food choices," said one physician involved with the Shop With Your Doc program. Another doctor chimed in more forcefully: "What people eat can be medicine or poison."
What does the "good food movement" have to contribute in the Trump era? Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Olivier de Shutter, and Ricardo Salvadortackle the question inCivil Eats, concluding in part that "important but parochial food issues," such as GMO labeling, "are bound to be overshadowed" by more urgent social justice issues, like combating racism, inequality, and climate change.
"One in every three bites of food consumed around the world depends on pollinators, particularly bees," according to a new dispatch from Canada's Centre for Research on Globalization. So what does the decline of bee populations mean for our food supply? From almonds to blueberries to canola oil to potatoes:nothing good.
In an interview, theObserverpredicts this will bea big year for Michael Twitty, the chef, blogger, and food historian "who evokes a young, black, gay Jewish Paul Prudhomme" and who is due to publishThe Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South.
