Month: April 2011

Cargill Showcases Premier Potassium Chloride Sodium Reduction System At AMI

April 6, 2011 Cargill

Cargill will showcase new ideas in the areas of health and wellness, and cost management, specifically with regards to creating meat products with reduced sodium, healthier fats, and alternative lean beef raw materials options at The American Meat Institute (AMI) Expo, April 13-16, 2011, in Chicago’s McCormick Place. Visitors to Cargill’s booth (#2052) can learn more about these topics and sample four processed meat prototypes. …

In Search Of The Best Rye Bread In America

April 6, 2011 Jane & Michael Stern, Saveur

Two aficionados of traditional Jewish rye track down the country’s tastiest loaves. …

Cabot Creamery Cooperative Serves Up Twists On Classic American Sandwich

April 6, 2011 Cabot Creamery Cooperative

What has 17 syllables on three lines, and artistically describes the comfort and appeal of a grilled cheese sandwich? It could be your prize-winning haiku in this month’s Twitter and Facebook contests from Cabot Creamery. What’s a haiku? A poem that has seventeen syllables on three lines, five in the first, seven in the second, five in the third just like our haiku headline. …

HERSHEYS Milk & Milkshakes Sponsoring 3on3 Basketball Tournament

April 6, 2011 HP Hood LLC

HERSHEYS Milk & Milkshakes, a line of single-serve milk and milkshakes, will serve as the official sponsor of Hoop It Up, the worlds largest participatory 3on3 basketball tournament program. Launched in 1989, Hoop It Up hosts tournaments across the country and provides local players in all age divisions the opportunity to compete with a focus on health, fitness and fun. Regional winners of the HERSHEYS Milk & Milkshakes Hoop It Up Tour, which began March 26 in Austin, TX, qualify for the Hoop It Up World Championships, held in Miami, FL, in August. …

IDFA Advocates Funding For USDA Risk Management Insurance Program

April 6, 2011 International Dairy Foods Association

Connie Tipton, CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association, has called on Congress to maintain funding for a federal risk management insurance program for dairy farmers. In a letter to U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, and U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), ranking member of the committee, Tipton restated IDFA’s opposition to any government program that would attempt to control milk price volatility, but affirmed support for the Livestock Gross Margin-Dairy program. …