Friday, January 31, 2014

Asian Shrimp Salad With Snow Peas

From "Jane Brody's Good Seafood Book", 1994. Great as an appetizer, light main course, or on a picnic. I prefer sugar snap peas to snow peas; sugar snaps are ready after 30 seconds of steaming. Makes 3 main-dish servings or 6 appetizer servings.









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Created: Jan 30, 2014 7:32:43 PM






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Thursday, January 30, 2014

AppleBee's Chicken Wonton

Copy Cat recipe of Applebee's Wonton Tacos. You can substitute the chicken for pork to have Applebee's Pork Wontons









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Created: Jan 29, 2014 3:45:32 PM






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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

U.S. House passes five-year farm bill

According to USA Today, the U.S. House passed a five-year farm bill on Jan. 29 that will end direct payments and expand popular crop insurance programs while cutting funding for food stamps used by millions of Americans.



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FDA issues warning letter to ARO Pistachios

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to ARO Pistachios Inc. stating that agency investigators found violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations for foods during an inspection that took place May 21–24, 2013.



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Unilever, Symrise, GIZ partner to support vanilla farmers

Unilever, its supplier Symrise, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have announced a partnership to improve the livelihoods of 4,000 vanilla farmers in the Sava region, Madagascar.



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Hershey exceeds 2013 certified cocoa goal

The Hershey Co. has announced that 18% of all the cocoa the company sourced globally in 2013 was certified, nearly double the company’s original 2013 goal of 10%.



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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Egg production increases, environmental footprint decreases

A study published in Poultry Science shows that while U.S. egg production has increased over the past 50 years, the industry has also been able to decrease its environmental footprint.



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