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2010-09-01 Probe: NY prison official steered food contracts - Bonner County Daily Bee: Business:

State investigators say the former director of food services for New Yorks prisons took favors including three-day picnics and other parties in exchange for steering contracts to vendors.

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State investigators say the former director of food services for New Yorks prisons took favors including three-day picnics and other parties in exchange for steering contracts to vendors. - No. ap

2010-08-28 Opposition Said Disappointed Over Alleged Mutharika Threat to Donors Africa English

Our president (was) expressing anger (and) disappointment and possibly indicating that look, Ive invested so much into this project. I dont think a newspaper will print a report generated by itself. It will print a report coming off from a researcher or a research organization. So, a newspaper is only a messenger (and) you should not kill a messenger, he said.

The director of research for Malawis opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) party has expressed shock after President Bingu Wa Mutharika allegedly threatened to expel donors and close down newspapers for reporting that about one million Malawians were in need of food aid.

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Opposition official says Malawis economy could be severely affected if donors withhold financially budget support following President Mutharikas threat - Opposition official says Malawis economy could be severely affected if donors withhold financially budget support following President Mutharikas threat

2010-08-26 Advertising: Egg Farmers Launch Reassurance Campaign - Advertising Age - News

The American Egg Board today took out full-page ads in major newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today to try and tamper down rising fears around Americas favorite breakfast food. The ads call attention to the fact that "the potentially affected eggs, which make up less than 1 pct. of all U. S. eggs, have been removed from store shelves" and end with the reminder that "thoroughly cooked means thoroughly safe. " Consumers are driven from the print ads to a website,

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Egg-farmers trade organization launches a campaign to tell consumers their eggs are not only still incredible -- theyre also safely edible. - National Egg Board egg recall ad campaign Costco Walmart

2010-08-21 Kerry Trueman: The Myth of the Rabid Locavore

Its a familiar formula: start by establishing yourself as the voice of reason by professing your own deep appreciation of the merits of locally grown food as evidenced by the bounty of your own back yard. Then, launch into a diatribe against a mythical army of dour, sour food mile nazis, including celebrity chefs and mainstream environmental organizations, whose support for local farmers is based on wildly misguided and naive notions about curbing ones carbon foodprint.

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Stephen Budiansky has stuffed together another flimsy, flammable straw man out of boilerplate anti-locavore rhetoric on the New York Times op-ed page, with the patronizing title Math andquot;Lessons For Locavores. andquot; - The myth of the rabid locavore food

2010-08-19 US oil speculators fined for usd. 100-a-barrel "vanity trade" - Telegraph

According to the CFTCs order, not only did CTG help push the price of oil above the usd. 100-mark, it also instructed its floor broker "to buy all of the contracts then being offered at usd. 99. 90 to, in the words of one CTG trader, "keep the usd. 100 print up. "

The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) fined a former division of ConAgra Foods for its involvement in the so-called "vanity trade" which was responsible for purposefully pushing up the price on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).

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The US commodities regulator has imposed a usd. 12m (andpound;7. 7m) fine on oil traders responsible for speculatively pushing the price of oil above the usd. 100-a-barrel mark for the first time in . - Us commodities regulator oil traders oil prices cftc oil speculators conagra foods usd. 100 a barrel Oil and Gas Energy News by Sector Finance

2010-08-18 MediaPost Publications Batali Adds Magazine To Media Menu, Teams With Guccione To Create Viaggio

Even though it is a small little magazine, given to you when you leave a restaurant, its actually a lot of work. I like to get it right. I spend as much time editing articles about wine or restaurants, as I did about science. Im working on a couple of Web sites. A few things that will be completely new launches. Im interested in a couple of start-up print titles, although one of them is about food. And that would be a national, mainstream high-quality food, wine and travel magazine. Its in the very early stages, although Ive thought about it quite a lot.

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Batali Adds Magazine To Media Menu, Teams With Guccione To Create Viaggio - It could be said that the launch of any new magazine is a voyage. Viaggio a new magazine published by super chef Mario Batali and his business partner Joe Bastianich is one. Its also the latest

2010-08-13 Smart vending machines coming to the states. Touchscreens, finger print readers, and. food. and laquo; Gadgetsteria

Next Generation Vending and Food Service whom is based out of Massachusetts has developed just the thing for western markets to jump back into the vending machine game. Their latest creations make use of gigantic touchpanel LCD screens in replace of glass looking windows as well as finger print readers that tie your phalanges to credit card numbers. Generally speaking, misplacing your fingers doesnt happen often, hence, youll never be without money. Even cooler, however, is that users can bring up all kinds of information about the food contained within including fairly deep nutritional information.

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2010-08-12 QandA: 100 Days, usd. 100 for Food, and Lots and Lots of Coupons - Its Your Money

This week, a blogger successfully completed a self-imposed challenge: For 100 days, he allotted himself a daily allowance of usd. 1 for food. To fill in the gaps (and his belly), he used couponsones available to anybody in Sunday newspapers and the Internetand he used them creatively, at one point using a coupon to buy tampons in order to get some free peanut butter. His biggest struggles actually didnt involve getting enough food or going over his budget. Throughout the challenge, he wound up donating tons of surplus purchases to food banks, and, toward the end of the experiment, money wasnt much of an issue. By Day 96, for example, hed only spent a total of usd. 76. 11for stuff that would have cost usd. 1,473. 94 at retail price.

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This week, a blogger successfully completed a self-imposed challenge: For 100 days, he allotted himself a daily allowance of usd. 1 for food. To fill in the gaps (and his belly), he used couponsones available to anybody in Sunday newspapers and the Internetand he used them creatively, at one point.

2010-07-23 IN PRINT: City Paper Food and Restaurants :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Green talk ruled the PA Restaurant Associations first-ever Food and Beverage Forum.

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Photo Neal Santos - This weeks cover story tackles the pizza conundrum in Philly andacirc; why does everyone think the pizza here stin - Food Blog Philadelphia Food Blog Drew Lazor Felicia DAmbrosio Philadelphia Area Restaurants Restaurants Philadelphia Philly Philly Restaurants BYO Late Night Dining

2010-07-22 24 Hour Restaurant Battle premieres tonight: Scott Conant talks hosting, judging, and nurturing

Yeah, Ive met most of everybody. Ive done Paulas show, and Bobby Ive been to his restaurant a bunch of times, and hes been to mine. Hes a great, great guy. Years ago, when I was starting a new company, Bobby gave me a little piece of advice that I took with me. You know, its those little words that you hear. It stuck with me, and it was one of those things that Ive always kind of worn on my sleeve and said, He didnt have to say that to me. He didnt need to take that five-minute conversation with me, but he did it, and it changed my life. But all that being said, the food network folks I just couldnt be happier. Everybody is so nurturing, and everybody has the same thing in mind: getting the network into a great place. And they want everybody to be successful equally. Thats

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Food Network junkies, asseeeemmmmbllle. 24 Hour Restaurant Battle, a new reality-competition series that pits amateur restaurant owners against each other, p.