Tag: Food and Beverage

If the UK adopted U.S. standards to facilitate transatlantic trade, as U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recently demanded, it would have to diverge from EU agricultural regulations. That would mean UK produce and food products would start to face customs and sanitary checks at the EU's border, even if tariffs could be avoided. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

A US trade deal is not the answer for Britain’s food sector

Chris Haskins · November 18, 2017 5:01 am

A Final Bow for Le Cirque?

Victorino Matus · November 17, 2017 8:00 am

President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, ate a lunch of hamburgers from Munch's Burger Shack at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Tokyo. The cheeseburger Trump had is still drawing lines at the Tokyo burger joint. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Trump’s cheeseburger draws a crowd at Tokyo restaurant

Anna Giaritelli · November 16, 2017 1:29 pm

Venezuela finally admitted they cannot pay back the debt as the country is bankrupt. They tried to create a non-market economy, and non-market economies simply do not work. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Beltway Confidential

Venezuela finally admits it: The socialist country is bankrupt

Tim Worstall · November 15, 2017 4:22 pm

Andrew Carnegie, founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, in his study in New York. (AP Photo)

Andrew Carnegie was America’s greatest entrepreneur

Washington Examiner Staff · November 13, 2017 5:01 am

Steve Bannon, former strategist for President Donald Trump, speaks at at the California Republican Convention in Anaheim, Calf., on Friday Oct. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Steve Bannon is on a smoothie diet

Caitlin Yilek · November 8, 2017 6:59 pm

An ethanol plant stands next to a cornfield near Nevada, Iowa. Cellulosic ethanol was supposed to be the next generation, and an improvement. But it hasn't panned out. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Beltway Confidential

Iowa’s ‘shining star’ goes dark as ballyhooed cellulosic ethanol plant shuts down after two years

Timothy P. Carney · November 3, 2017 12:56 pm

Please Don’t Bug Me

The Scrapbook · November 3, 2017 7:10 am

A restaurant in D.C. says it will offer the $5 Moscow mules each time special counsel Robert Mueller indicts a Trump associate in the Russia probe. (iStock Photo)

DC restaurant to offer $5 ‘Moscow Muellers’ anytime a Trump associate is indicted

Caitlin Yilek · November 2, 2017 11:41 am

Sen. George Murphy, R-Calif., was a former movie star with a sweet tooth who brought some bipartisanship to Congress in 1964 with his famed Candy Desk. The institution survives today and remains a place where lawmakers of any ilk are welcome to a handful of sweets. (AP Photo/John Rous)

Beltway Confidential

No matter how nasty it gets, senators still bond over candy

J. Mark Powell · November 2, 2017 4:01 am

Papa John’s: NFL’s national anthem protests hurt pizza sales

Melissa Quinn · November 1, 2017 5:07 pm

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted Tuesday night that he would give half of his daughter's candy and give it to "some kid who sat at home" to teach the girl a lesson about socialism. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Donald Trump Jr. takes Halloween jab at socialism with daughter’s candy

Daniel Chaitin · November 1, 2017 3:34 am