Tag: Food and Beverage

FILE - This Feb. 27, 2013 file photo shows first lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray discussing lunches with students from the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools in Clinton, Miss. Moving beyond the lunch line, new rules expected to be proposed by the White House and the Agriculture Department Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, would limit marketing of unhealthy foods in schools, phasing out the advertising of sugary drinks and junk foods around school campuses and ensuring that other promotions in schools are in line with health standards that apply to school foods. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Michelle Obama pushes ban on marketing junk food in schools

Brian Hughes · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

This undated product image provided by Taco Bell, shows the company's new waffle taco. The fast-food chain says the waffle taco, which includes scrambled eggs, sausage and a side of syrup, was the top seller during breakfast hours at the five Southern California restaurants where they were tested earlier this year. (AP Photo/Taco Bell)

Taco Bell takes aim at McDonald’s with breakfast

Candice Choi · February 24, 2014 8:25 pm

Company recalls 16 varieties of cheese after death

Company recalls 16 varieties of cheese after death

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 24, 2014 3:18 pm

McDonald’s eyes extending breakfast hours

McDonald’s eyes extending breakfast hours

Candice Choi · February 24, 2014 2:45 pm

In this Friday, Nov. 29, 2013 photo, a Greek Orthodox Priest Dimitris Vlasopoulos collects olives from a canvas tarp in Kalo Pedi village, about 335 kilometers (210 miles) west of Athens. Plans to extend a brutal efficiency drive to olive oil production in Greece have been met with anger and disbelief. If proposals from a government funded study are adopted, olive oil blended with cheaper vegetable oils will soon go on sale as part of an effort to modernize Greece's economy, which was rescued from near bankruptcy four years ago. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek olives face squeeze in efficiency drive

Derek Gatopoulos · February 24, 2014 1:28 pm

The Department of Agriculture said that in 2014, 14 percent of garbage dumped into landfills was food waste. AP Photo

Energy and Environment

USDA: Americans waste nearly one-third of their food; worth $161 billion

Paul Bedard · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

Michelle Obama Joins Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell in Drag

Michelle Obama Joins Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell in Drag

Daniel Halper · February 21, 2014 12:44 pm

House Speaker Beth Harwell, R-Nashville, presides during a floor debate about allowing local governments to hold referendums on supermarket wine sales on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 in Nashville. The chamber later passed the measure that Harwell has championed for years. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Tenn. House passes supermarket wine sales bill

Erik Schelzig · February 20, 2014 6:39 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2006 file photo,Nelson Peltz of Trian Group, Heinz's second-largest investor, addresses shareholders during the annual meeting in Pittsburgh. Activist investor Peltz is ramping up the pressure on PepsiCo, reaffirming his call for the company to separate its struggling North American drinks division from its snack unit. Peltz's Trian Fund Management sent a letter to PepsiCo Inc. on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014saying it views "structural change as the best path forward to generate sustainable increases in shareholder value." (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, file)

Peltz: PepsiCo should still split drinks, snacks

Washington Examiner · February 20, 2014 2:06 pm

Danone profit slumps in 2013

Danone profit slumps in 2013

Washington Examiner · February 20, 2014 9:13 am

Sbarro says it will close 155 locations

Sbarro says it will close 155 locations

Washington Examiner · February 19, 2014 11:22 pm

Coffee prices surge on worries about Brazil’s crop

Coffee prices surge on worries about Brazil’s crop

The Associated Press · February 19, 2014 10:38 pm