Castello Blue Cheese Sponsors Bravos Top Chef: The Tour

April 14, 2011 Castello

Castello Blue Cheese is pleased to announce their sponsorship of this year’s Bravo’s Top Chef: The Tour. As previously announced by Bravo, the 20-city tour begins April 15th at Soulard Farmer’s Market in St. Louis, Missouri and will feature an interactive cook-off between two former Top Chef contestants. Each cooking “battle” will take place in front of a select group of Top Chef fans and a panel of local judges.

International Raw Milk Symposium To Highlight Choice For Producer & Consumer

The explosive increase in raw milk consumptionaccording to CDC statistics, at least ten million Americans now consume raw milkhas created innovative partnerships between consumers and their farmers. By accepting responsibility in their food choices, Americans are paving the way to the next phase of the US local food movement: partnership with producers to ensure we a way of providing raw milk and other healthy foods that our families require for good health.

Visalia, CA Dairymen Look To Build Micro Creamery

Local dairymen Noel and Rolland Rosa are looking to build a small “micro creamery” at 8125 Goshen Ave. in the Visalia Industrial Park. “We want to offer customers fresh local milk like they did in the 1950s,” said Noel Rosa, whose family has been farming near Hanford since 1953. “It’s like a micro brewery where you watch product being made and buy fresh natural milk in bottles like you used to.”

Calcium &Vitamin D Dietary Reference Intake Recommendations Will Be New For A While

Its been several months since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the new calcium and vitamin D Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) recommendations, but considering its been more than 10 years since the last revision in 1997, they will be new for quite a while. If you counsel clients or write on the topic, you will need to refer to them often.

Ivory Coast Cocoa Exports Set To Resume After Gbagbo Capture

The world’s top cocoa producer Ivory Coast is set to resume exports of the commodity after Laurent Gbagbo was finally ousted, a move that will likely weigh on elevated prices, analysts said Wednesday.