Long-running outbreaks included in UK report. Published: December 03, 2025, 12:04 am Last updated: December 03, 2025, 2:07 am Several outbreak updates involving the United Kingdom were provided by scientists at a recent event. Presentations at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) covered Shigella, Listeria, and Salmonella outbreaks affecting the UK....

According to culinary historian, educator, and multiple James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Michael W. Twitty, the Southern table is a place where “the real world and the places that exist in memory, myth, and mystique sit side by side.” In his new book, Recipes From the American South, Twitty outlines how the culinary identity of...

In the midst of a nationwide outbreak, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ordered that all pistachios imported from Iran must be tested for Salmonella. As of the most recent update from the Public Health Acing of Canada in November, there are 155 laboratory-confirmed salmonella infections in Canada linked to the consumption of pistachios and...

Dan Pelosi famously loves a holiday cookie swap. On his Instagram account, @grossypelosi, and personal website, the recipe developer has chronicled many of his cookie parties over the years, during which he rolls brown butcher’s paper atop a large table and invites guests to drop by with their treats, open-house-style. Some of Pelosi’s cookie recipes...

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Hershey is taking a bite out of the Dubai chocolate craze. The confectionery giant is introducing a Dubai-inspired chocolate bar on Dec. 4, though the offering comes with a catch. Hershey is producing only 10,000 chocolate bars...

New York City has no shortage of oyster bars. But many of these institutions, says Strange Delight executive chef and partner Ham El-Waylly, can feel “bougie and buttoned-up.” Instead, the goal of the Strange Delight team — which includes Anoop Pillarisetti and Michael Tuiach — was to make their Brooklyn restaurant “feel like a party,...

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Horizon Family Brands has acquired organic dairy company Maple Hill Creamery as it looks to position itself as a leader in better-for-you food and beverage products. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. New York-based Maple Hill...

A holiday cookie swap is all about accessible abundance: For the price of entry (i.e., an afternoon spent baking one type of cookie to share), guests leave with full cookie tins erupting with biscuits, wafers, and bars, an assortment of treats displaying different colors, flavors, and provenances. It’s that promise of variety — and the...

Under the program, Nevada will expand its state inspection capacity with food safety oversight to boost market access for small and very small processors. Published: December 02, 2025, 12:02 am Nevada has met the USDA’s “at least equal to” food safety standard, becoming the 30th state to implement the Meat and Poultry Inspection (MPI) Program....

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Many brand owners and packaging converters think that about 5% to 10% further source reduction in packaging is feasible in the next five years — with the right innovations, legislative support and understanding of nuanced sustainability trade-offs....