Food News

After a public flirtation with requiring food stamps be used only to buy healthier foods, Gov. Nikki Haley's administration has decided to take a different course and require more food-stamp recipients find a job.

Michael Parayno, originator of the beloved but controversial Berkeley venue known as the Birdland Jazzista Social Club , is planning to launch a venture in Oakland, in a commercial area located about three blocks from the MacArthur BART station.

In this March 3, 2014 photo two sows push up against another entering an electronic feeding stall, center, at Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Ind.

Maybe the you-know-what-nut put food mashups on the map, but we think the turducken deserves all the credit.

Are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez back together? The two were reportedly spotted having breakfast together Friday morning in McAllen, Texas.

Waitrose confirmed it has native strawberries in selected stores in time for what is predicted to be the hottest day of the year tomorrow, with temperatures reaching 18C , a week earlier than last year.

Hog prices are rising for the fourth straight week as a swine virus threatens to crimp the supply of pork.

Beef recalled earlier this year from a California meat producer may have reached 35 states and Guam, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

Wherever you live in the United States, allergy rates are mostly the same, but young children in southern states are more likely to suffer allergies than their peers in other places.

Waitrose has declared itself the winner with its produce grown in glasshouses in Chichester arriving in-store today but Tesco is close on its heels with its strawberries, also grown in West Sussex, arriving tomorrow.

The western Massachusetts college serves food grown mostly at local farms or on its 15-acre campus farm that has cows, pigs and even hens.

In this photo made on Saturday, March 1, 2014, Brian Scritchfield adds mushrooms to a small pizza ordered at Bobtown Pizza in Bobtown, Pa.

The first time Margaret Ann Horn broke out in an odd rash, she blamed it on the sumac she had cleared at her farm in Leipers Fork.

Next time you order Chinese food, you may want to pay close attention to the numbers on your fortune cookie.

Republican elected officials got a chance to try their hand at humor today. We look at how Reaganesque their zingers were.

Added sugar intake should be less than 10% of your total calories a day, and consuming less than 5% of total calories from added sugars provides additional health benefits, according to new draft guidelines from the World Health Organization.

Happy 50th birthday, Buffalo-style chicken wings. The milestone is being celebrated Thursday at the Anchor Bar, the Buffalo tavern that's credited with inventing the dish on a March night a half century ago.

Communications store owner Donny Seto says other business owners shouldn't be so hesitant to set up in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Across the country, communities stranded in food and retail deserts are asking how they can enjoy the bounty afforded to other urban centers.

Flansburg, who farms 1,900 acres amid the rolling hills of southeastern Washington, has been increasing the amount of the chickpeas used to make hummus by about one-third each year to take advantage of good prices and demand.

Diets low in saturated fat do not prevent heart disease or improve health and instead public health warnings need to be issued over sugar, a leading scientist has said.