Sales of premium “pata negra” dry-cured hams, the “caviar” of Spanish charcuterie, have suffered as restaurants and hotels have closed and celebratory events where it is usually eaten have been put on ice because of the pandemic.
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Only 1 in 10 Americans eats the ideal ratio of fruits and veggies that is key to promoting a long, healthy life.
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Taipei slammed a sudden Chinese ban on Taiwanese pineapples, describing the move on Friday as “economic intimidation” and likening it to recent tariffs Beijing slapped on Australian wine.
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A group of Rohingya refugees is adrift in a boat in the Andaman Sea without food or water, the United Nations said Wednesday, as their families worried that many may have already died.
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Only a handful of sea turtles survived after a disastrous oil spill blackened most of Israel’s shoreline and reached beaches of neighboring Lebanon.
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A German court ruled Thursday that online retail giant Amazon has to tell consumers the specific country of origin of fresh fruit and vegetables that it sells.
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French researchers announced Tuesday that they had succeeded in cultivating the rare white truffles mainly found in Italy, a breakthrough that could spur more widespread efforts to grow the prized delicacy.
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As panicked Americans cleared supermarkets of toilet paper and food last spring, grocery employees gained recognition as among the most indispensable of the pandemic’s front-line workers.
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P.F. Chang’s customers will get another shot to prove they were deceived into thinking dishes with “krab mix” contained crab meat.
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Lawmakers say manufacturers exploited the lack of federal regulation to set dangerously high internal standards for toxic heavy metal levels.
Read moreA federal court in New York ruled that a class action against Whole Foods relating to its alleged mislabeling of graham crackers may proceed. A woman claims she was deceived by a box of “Honey Graham Crackers” because graham is a type of whole-wheat flour, so she believed the crackers contained more of that flour than non-whole-grain flour. She also thought they were sweetened with honey rather than sugar.
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Politicians in Britain, Northern Ireland and the European Union on Tuesday condemned threats against border staff that prompted authorities to suspend post-Brexit checks on animal products.
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A report commissioned by the British government is urging a radical transformation in the way that countries around the world assess the state of their economies by elevating the natural world as a key element in their economic planning.
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After a deadly liquid nitrogen leak inside a Georgia poultry plant Thursday, legislators and worker advocacy groups called for changes to federal policies which they say prevented the plant’s many undocumented workers from getting necessary health care.
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Kosher slaughterhouses have found new export markets since the European Union’s highest court last month upheld a law in Belgium’s Flanders region that prohibited slaughtering animals without first stunning them into unconsciousness.
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The newly published results of experiments on Californian freshwater fish demonstrate that scientists can reveal an individual fish’s life history, including its eating habits, just by taking a close look at its eyes.
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After scoring a court win last year in their fight to protect the name of their cheese, a European court on Wednesday handed Cypriot halloumi cheese makers a setback by approving a Bulgarian company’s bid to market its cheese products as BBQLOUMI.
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Czech lawmakers passed an amendment Wednesday ordering large shops to sell mostly Czech food as of next year, despite an expected backlash from partners in the European Union.
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The Louisville Courier-Journal’s use of the words “derby pie” in a recipe and article featuring variations of the dessert did not infringe on a bakery owner’s trademark rights, the Sixth Circuit ruled.
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Environmental campaigners have welcomed a Mexican ban on growing genetically modified maize and the phasing out of a controversial weedkiller — a step that has met opposition in the private sector.
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