Madison Lane Grows Specialty Food Brokerage, Acquiring Murdock & White

November 1, 2012 Madison Lane Sales

Local wholesale specialty-food brokerage Madison Lane is expanding its offerings with the purchase of Seattle-based Murdock & White, a wholesale specialty-food brokerage that represents a diverse range of regional, national and international specialty food products.

Buffalo Milk Mozzarella Or Buffaloed Consumers? New Test Can Provide The Answer

November 1, 2012 American Chemical Society

Those tiny balls of boutique mozzarella cheese with the sticker-shock price tag beckoning from the dairy case — are they the real deal, mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP, crafted from the milk of water buffaloes? Or are they really cheap fakes made from cow's milk? A new method described in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry promises to provide the answer for mozzarella and other dairy products.

Tyson Foods Holiday Ham Promotion Puts Deli Solutions In Spotlight

November 1, 2012 Tyson Foods, Inc

A deli promotion from Tyson Foods, Inc., is streamlining the hectic holiday season for consumers and driving traffic to the deli for a triple savings offer.

In Dairy Industry Consolidation, Lush Paydays

THERE was a time not long ago when Gregg L. Engles was considered a genius in the dairy industry, a shrewd C.E.O. who had cobbled together a string of local businesses to create the nation’s largest milk bottler, Dean Foods. These days, however, as he prepares to step aside as chief executive of Dean Foods, Mr. Engles, 55, is perhaps better known for his paychecks, which continued to be hugely generous even as his company’s fortunes tumbled.

The Real Hall's Beer Cheese Will Be In Stores Soon

For almost five decades, Hall's on the River has been serving beer cheese that was "invented" just across the road by neighboring barkeep Johnny Allman. Recently the sole owners of the restaurant reacquired the trademark to sell the brand in retail stores.