There are serious problems in the food chain in relation to food traceability as the recent horse-meat scandal highlighted. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage and the Sustainable Restaurant Association have taken action, and are breaking new ground by providing accredited training by City & Guilds in ethical food selection and procurement. River Cottage is famous for […]
In Chicago, McDonald’s has put up a clever new billboard that uses an ingenious shadow fork to tell you when to eat at each hour of the morning. Featuring various breakfast items from the fast food chain’s menu, the billboard is attached with a fork-shaped structure, whose shadow changes and shifts throughout the morning. At […]
Craving for some delicious pizza, but don’t know where to get some? Have no fear, because there is now an app that points you in the direction of the nearest pizzeria. Called ‘Pizza Compass’, it is an iOS app that features a ‘pizza-to-mouth’ indicator that shows you the exact travel distance to that delicious slice. […]
New Orleans Wine & Food Experience
Twenty-one years ago a small group of forward-thinking wine lovers sat around a table concocting an event that today is considered one of the top wine events in the country. The 21st anniversary of the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience—May 22 – 25, 2013— includes wine dinners hosted by more than 30 local restaurants; […]
McDonald’s Canada and its franchisees are celebrating McHappy Day, a unique fundraising event where $1 from every Big Macsandwich, Happy Meal and hot McCafé beverage sold will be donated to Ronald McDonald Houses and other local children’s charities across Canada. This year marks the 20th McHappy Day, which has raised more than $38 million for […]
Sodexo Foundation continues its investment in youth engagement and the fight against hunger with a $150,000 grant to the Food Recovery Network, advancing its work to fight food waste and hunger nationwide. The Food Recovery Network is a consortium of college students fighting hunger and food waste by recovering surplus food from their dining halls […]
Retailer Waitrose says it is aiming to halve the amount of packaging it uses by 2016. The supermarket says it will aim to use 50 per cent of material compared to 2005 – cutting out nearly 100 tonnes of packaging each year. It has unveiled three packaging redesigned which aim to help it achieve its […]
Hat-Trick Design has created the Cooking With Kids app, which features an exclusive range of child-friendly recipes from a host of top chefs. The project, which is in association with Tesco, is part of Hat-Trick’s ongoing work with Great British Chefs – a brand that brings together 12 chefs including Marcus Wareing and Tom Aikens […]
Until now, the will of the Force has sought to bring balance to the universe, and with Pringles in the picture, the Force has a new mission – to deliver snackable fun. As part of the Pringles and Star Wars “The Force For Fun” promotion, more than a thousand fan-generated video ideas were crowdsourced through […]
Ruffles potato chips, one of the flagship brands from PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division, is about to unveil a new cast of characters. Enter Ruff McThickridge and his closest buds, Bo Dato, Mora Crunchy and the Bomb-Defusing Sloth, a group of self-described hotshots sure to make any 1970s action movie hero proud. The gang headlines the Ruffles […]