CONTEST: Compose A New Chant For Beans

Cannellini beans, also known as white kidney beans, are one of the many nutritious, delicious beans that are also beautiful. Do you remember the classic schoolyard chant, “Beans, beans the musical fruit?”* For years, children have recited variations of this memorable chant, even though beans are a vegetable, not a fruit. (But then, what rhymes…
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New Product: Annie’s Homegrown Organic Snacks

Parents who want more organic snacks for their kids—or grownups who indulge in guilty gummi pleasures—will be glad to know that Bernie the Rabbit, mascot of Annie’s Homegrown organic foods, has morphed into gummi-type “fruit snacks” and crispy crackers. The Bunny Fruit Snacks, rabbit-shaped in Berry Patch and Tropical Treat, are vegan, made with real…
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PRODUCT REVIEW: Scharffen Berger Chocolate

The Scharffen Berger logo features an ibex mountain goat and three stars. In 1996, winemaker John Scharffenberger and physician Robert Steinberg made a mark in the history of chocolate, shaping the current trend of “micro” (small-batch) chocolate bar production in the U.S. and, as a result, decentralizing the production of fine chocolate bars in Europe.…
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