According to this CNN Money report from last year, Cargill, the manufacturer of the ground beef that partially paralyzed the dance instructor profiled in Sunday's New York Times, is the second largest privately held company in the country. Fortune magazine estimates that Cargill's 2007 revenues were $88 billion. The company's third quarter net earnings in 2008 [...]
The New York Times published a devastating piece on Sunday, detailing not only how a nasty strain of E. coli ruined the life of a young dance instructor but also how the tainted meat came to be in the first place. The short answer: because the inspection and safety system favors the beef industry, with [...]
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Exclusive – Backstage with Frank Bruni www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Protests This is skit from the Colbert Report — I'm not even sure it actually aired, since I didn't see the former New York Times dining critic's appearance on the show [...]
In my post earlier today on Oreo cookies (not to mention my recent Y&H column on Tex-Mex), I name-drop Mexican chef Patricia Jinich. If you haven't learned about her already, do yourself the favor and read Joan Nathan's insightful piece in the New York Times on Jinich. Jinich's star is obviously on the rise. In [...]
There's no mistaking that Young & Hungry readers love their beer. They love it in a glass. They love it in a growler. And they love it in print. The single most-read item of the week — by a wide, wide margin — was Beerspotter Orr Shtuhl's post on the inaugural D.C. Beer Week. I predict [...]
This Aug. 3 story from the New York Times just crossed my path. I'm hoping you haven't seen it, either. It's a hopeful tale about the Chesapeake Bay and its long-suffering native oyster population. Reporter Henry Fountain writes that large experimental reefs, designed by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College [...]
Just a day after the New York Times announced that Sam Sifton would be its next restaurant reviewer, the blogosphere and the dead-tree media have been tirelessly carving up the critic like a roast pig. Here's a taste of what's been written about Sifton so far: Eater.con has put together a dossier on Sifton. It [...]
Today's announcement that Sam Sifton will be the next dining critic for The New York Times leaves little doubt in my mind that the Gray Lady's editors have decided anonymity is next to impossible to maintain in that vaunted position. Sure, they apparently scrubbed Sifton's image from the Times' Web site, but it takes all [...]
The Iowa State Fair's plan to memorialize Michael Jackson in butter has turned sour. A majority of folks in the Hawkeye State just don't think MJ has the credentials to merit such a creamy honor, even though the Jackson 5 once played the state fair in 1971. So reported the New York Times over the [...]
We've seen them hundreds of times, these cylinders of compressed meat spinning slowing in front of a burning-red heating element. They're fixtures at Greek restaurants from here to Anchorage, but who exactly invented these ubiquitous cones of gyro meat? David Segal, a former Postie who cut his teeth as a City Paper freelancer years ago, [...]
