Archives: Food & Wine

  • Dishing up trash: New look for sustainable seafood

    Updated: Fri, Jun 14, 2013

    Most people have only ever seen a scorpion fish in an aquarium. Unless they dine at Carolina Crossroads Restaurant in Chapel Hill, N.C., where they'll find the spiny, venomous creature on the menu. It's called trash fish dining, and it's catching on with chefs around the country searching for...

  • Shishito peppers: From hipster menus to your grill

    Updated: Fri, Jun 14, 2013

    Never had shishito peppers? You need to track them down. Right now. First, a primer, then I'll explain why. Shishito peppers are small, thin Japanese peppers. They look a bit like a longer, thinner jalapeno. But the flavor is quite different. While jalapenos have thick flesh and an assertive...

  • Charlie Trotter accused of selling bogus $46K wine

    Updated: Fri, Jun 14, 2013

    CHICAGO (AP) — Award-winning chef Charlie Trotter is being sued by a pair of New York wine collectors who say he sold them a bogus bottle of wine for more than $46,000. The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Chicago accuses Trotter and one of his wine experts of duping the pair into...

  • SC issuing free farmers' market coupons to seniors

    Updated: 4 hr ago

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some South Carolina senior citizens can get help buying some healthy food this summer. On Friday, Mt. Nebo Baptist Church is offering seniors a chance to pick up coupons good for $25 worth of fresh fruits and vegetables. They're available for low-income people age 60 and...

  • Grocers allege potato group pumped up spud prices

    Updated: 5 hr ago

    BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers' pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America's spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how...

  • MTSU's student farmers market opens Friday

    Updated: 6 hr ago

    MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Middle Tennessee State University's student farmers market opens to the public on Friday. Officials say the market will be open from noon to 3 p.m. at the Horticulture Center on Lightning Way across from the Tennessee Livestock Center. Because of road construction...

  • Upstate NY to host annual Farm Aid benefit concert

    Updated: 9 hr ago

    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Singer Willie Nelson is taking his annual Farm Aid benefit concert to upstate New York with an all-day festival of music and locally grown food in September. The event in Saratoga Springs, 28 miles north of Albany, will feature Nelson and other Farm Aid board members John...

  • Detroit's early culinary tastes topic of talk

    Yesterday

    DETROIT (AP) — How — and what — Detroiters ate in the city's early days is on the table for discussion next week at the Detroit Historical Museum. Local food aficionado Bill Loomis on Wednesday evening will explore themes from his book, "Detroit's Delectable Past." The talk is expected to...

  • NC Senate tax overhaul heading for floor vote

    Yesterday

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina Senate panel endorsed a tax overhaul Wednesday that gradually repeals corporate income taxes without a major expansion of sales taxes. The new Republican plan approved by the Senate Finance Committee avoids the debated sales tax additions of a previous...

  • Restaurant owner: Iowa tornado damaged business

    Updated: Wed, Jun 12, 2013

    BELMOND, Iowa (AP) — The owner of a restaurant in northern Iowa says a tornado has "demolished" part of his business. Duwayne Abel, owner of Cattleman's Steaks & Provisions in Belmond, says a tornado swooped in Wednesday through his business' parking lot. He says the south side of the...