Tag: Food and Beverage

The justices heard oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop's fight against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Cake maker blasts Colorado law at the Supreme Court: ‘That is not freedom. That is not tolerance.’

Melissa Quinn · December 5, 2017 6:35 pm

The Agricultural Guestworker Act would flood the meat processing and agricultural sectors with hundreds of thousands of untrained visa holders. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Guest worker bill will put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work

Marc Perrone · December 4, 2017 5:01 am

Common sense legislation that sets American workers and consumers first, like the Sugar Policy Modernization Act, might just get the bitter taste of crony capitalism out of our mouths. (Eduardo / Wikimedia Commons)

Sugar policy reform: Stop paying off the plantation owners

Ted Ellis · December 4, 2017 5:01 am

Recently, a manager at a Burger King screamed at customers who couldn't make up their minds about what to order. But while the manager should have been fired, one should have some sympathy for those service industry professionals who have to deal with lethargic customers. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Beltway Confidential

Please hurry up and order your food and drink

Tom Rogan · November 29, 2017 5:12 pm

Democrats for Prohibition, and other absurdities

Washington Examiner · November 29, 2017 5:01 am

Food insecurity has become such a common issue among students in recent years that four campus-based organizations decided to conduct a survey during the spring of 2016. The survey found that 22 percent of students reported being hungry in the previous 30 days. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Red Alert Politics

Trend: Starving college students turn to food pantries

Brendan Pringle · November 28, 2017 2:06 pm

The already-breakneck speed of chicken slaughter lines leads to botched slaughters and abusive handling by workers who can't kill quickly enough, according to the USDA's own inspection records. Inspectors have documented chickens missing the kill blade and being scalded to death in tanks of hot water and having their legs or wings cut off by the beheading machine while alive and fully conscious. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Big poultry is pushing to accelerate slaughter lines; just say no

Vandhana Bala · November 26, 2017 5:01 am

In certain parts of the country, if you do not have a cookie table -- actually several cookie tables -- you may as well expect nothing short of a revolt by the wedding guests.

Salena Zito: The cookie table and the bonds of traditions in America

Salena Zito · November 26, 2017 5:01 am

"The menu includes all the traditional fare turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, a variety of baked goods, local produce and cheeses, red snapper, and Florida stone crab," a spokeswoman said.

Trump’s Thanksgiving menu includes red snapper, Florida stone crab

Naomi Lim · November 23, 2017 6:44 pm

This photo released on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017 by Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S-led effort against the Islamic State group, shows officers serving their soldiers Thanksgiving Day dinner in a dining facility at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (Tech. Sgt. Daniel Ter Haar, CJTF-OIR via AP )

National Security

Overseas troops will receive almost 100,000 pounds of turkey this Thanksgiving

Diana Stancy Correll · November 23, 2017 6:17 pm

Did you know that 1989 was the first year in which a turkey was officially pardoned by a sitting president? Learn this -- and other fun facts about Thanksgiving -- in the article below.

Beltway Confidential

Thanksgiving 2017 by the numbers

Jason Russell · November 23, 2017 5:01 am

Seated at a large dining table and a couple of smaller ones, we thank God for our many blessings, introduce newly arrived family members, celebrate the lives of some who have passed on, and remember Thanksgivings past. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

A Thanksgiving feast, provided by the miracle of markets

Bruce Yandle · November 23, 2017 12:01 am