NEWS: The Food Pyramid Becomes A Food Plate

We loved the old food pyramid. But not everyone likes to read charts as much as we do, or count off the number of fruit, veggie and grain servings. The original food pyramid, launched by the USDA in 1992, included the four food groups stacked in the shape of a pyramid with the number of…
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Mix Up A Half & Half, Arnold Palmer, Or Shandy (& The Arnold Palmer History)

When you think of a refreshing warm-weather drink, do you think of beer, iced tea, lemonade, or ginger ale? If you mix two of them together in a half-and-half drink, you’ll create a summer refresher: an Arnold Palmer or a Shandy, depending on the recipe. You can purchase them ready-bottled; but like most things, homemade…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Mint Julep Day

While mint juleps are associated more with the recent Kentucky Derby than Memorial Day, today is National Mint Julep Day. “Julep” is a Middle English term for a sweet drink, derived sometime between 1350 and 1400 C.E. from the Arabic gulab (pronounced julab), which refers to rose petals steeped in water. The mint julep originated…
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NEWS: Get An MBA In Food & Wine

Take a seat in the classroom and earnan MBA in food and wine. Photocourtesy University of Bologna.   Want a business career in the food and wine industry? Start with an MBA in Food & Wine, given for the first time by the Alma Graduate School of Business at the University of Bologna, in Italy.…
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