Healthy happy you.
healthy living
1 Get the Facts About Salmonella
healthy living
2 How to Protect Yourself From Salmonella
healthy living
3 Is Peanut Butter Spreading Salmonella?
Quiz
4 Which Peanut Butter Products Are Salmonella Safe?
outbreak
5 Peanut Butter and Salmonella Sandwiches, Yum!
Food
6 Have You Been Avoiding Peanut Butter Products Lately?
peanut butter
7 Oscar Mayer Chicken Recalled, Among Others
peanut butter
8 Salmonella in Peanut Butter Caused by a Leaky Roof? WTF!!!
energy bar
9 Some Peanut Butter-Based Bars Are Safe, Others Are Not
recall
10 Veggie Booty Recalled!
healthy living
11 All Peanut Butter Products From Texas Plant Recalled
healthy living
12 Contaminated Tomatoes: Salmonella Strikes Again
healthy living
13 Pistachios Subject of Newest Salmonella Scare
healthy living
14 Salmonella Outbreak: Now in 16 States
Food
15 Brace Yourself For a Bigger Pistachio Recall
healthy living
16 Tomatoes Expected in Restaurants and Stores Soon
healthy living
17 Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Salmonella
healthy living
18 Tainted Tomatoes Now in 30 States: Are You Avoiding Them?
A peek at The French Laundry's intense kitchen culture. — San Francisco Chronicle The Iowa egg producer linked to the recent salmonella outbreak tested positive for the same bacteria in 2008. — New York Times In the last couple of years, néo-bistrots have offered Parisian cuisine at an affordable price. — Wall Street Journal Should food trucks have to carry health letter grades, too? — Read more
A cool trick for cutting cherry tomatoes. — Huffington Post Food Why you should be drinking Spanish white wines. — Slate How come so many chefs' twitter accounts are horribly boring? — Time An homage to the cooking shows of the past. — Grub Street SF How to make your own tonic water. — Chow Must make: mussels in spicy tomato sauce. — Serious Eats After taking a hiatus, Read more
Half a billion eggs have been recalled, but kids love licking the brownie batter more than they like eating the cooked treats. While stealing tastes of cookie dough and cake mix may be part of the baking ritual in some households, lots of moms are keeping their children's fingers away from the bowl because they are wary of the threat of salmonella posed by raw eggs. Salmonellosis is an illness Read more
With recent recalls based on possible salmonella contamination, I wanted to test your knowledge on this dangerous disease. Remember, even though you're not eating the dog treats, just touching them and not washing your hands can put your human family at risk, too. Symptoms sneak up on pets, and oftentimes once more serious ones appear, significant dehydration has already hurt your precious pal. Read more
As if junk food wasn't bad enough because of the high calorie content and unpronounceable ingredients, here's another reason to avoid it. Procter & Gamble has announced the recall of two flavors of Pringles: Restaurant Cravers Cheeseburger and Family Faves Taco Night. The culprit is the widely used flavor enhancer hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) made by Basic Food Flavors, Inc. Read more
The New York City Health Department recently told the Pegu Club that using raw eggs in cocktails is a health violation. However, bartenders know that in some classic cocktails (like a Pisco sour), a raw egg is necessary to make the drink frothy. Like most daring drinkers, I assume that the alcohol will kill any salmonella and often order beverages made with raw eggs. How about you? Source: Read more
There have been many surprising foods linked to salmonella lately, including tainted peanut butter and pistachios. Now government health officials are encouraging people to avoid raw alfalfa sprouts, since they may be contaminated with a strain of salmonella. There have been 31 cases of illness reported since mid-March in Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia. Read more
It's amazing that tiny nuts could cause so much trouble. Last week Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc. recalled more than two million pounds of roasted pistachios shipped since last Fall, and now the recall has been expanded to include all raw nuts and all roasted nuts from the producer's 2008 crop. It's seen as a proactive move because there have been no confirmed illnesses, but health Read more
Nipping on the heels of the ongoing peanut butter salmonella outbreak is a new scare in tainted nuts, and this time salty fingers are being pointed at pistachios. Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc. has recalled more than two million pounds of roasted pistachios shipped since last Fall, just fraction of the 55 million pounds processed by the company last year. Because the nuts in question were Read more
Last night — only two months after a colossal peanut scare that led to a recall of more than 3,800 peanut products — the FDA recalled two million pounds of pistachios that have been distributed nationwide due to risk of a salmonella outbreak. The new contamination concerns, which are not tied to the peanut products, were traced to pistachios grown by Setton Farms of Terra Bella, CA. One of Read more
