Ring In The New Year With Chilean Blueberries & Champagne

Sparkling wine isn't just for toasting the New Year, it’s also the perfect pairing with fresh blueberries from Chile in this elegantly surprising new recipe Fresh Blueberry and Pear Champagne Aperitif. This sweet and tangy cold beverage is the perfect starter to ring in 2013, a sophisticated and colorful complement to the year-end celebratory repast.

Recipe Winners In 2012 At Wegmans? Veggies

December 31, 2012 Wegmans

What do people really think? Customer reviews on retailer websites can give you a flavor of what’s hot (or not). Sometimes, the reviews can be surprising. Case in point: On wegmans.com, the recipes that customers reviewed most often in 2012 were in a food category that often gets little respect – namely, vegetables. But the trend is probably no fluke, says Mark Makovec, a Wegmans executive chef. In fact, he predicts, veggie dishes will be even bigger 2013 – but more on that later.

Fund To Help California Oyster Farm Established

The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) has agreed to administer a litigation fund to be used to help finance the Drakes Bay Oyster Company's lawsuit against the United States National Park Service.Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) is a family-owned, environmentally sustainable oyster farm on the shores of Drakes Estero within the confines of the Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, California. The Lunny family has been farming and ranching in Point Reyes for more than three generations.

Whole Foods Market Offers Alabama-Raised Point Aux Pins Oysters In Southern Stores

Whole Foods Market announced today that boutique, farm-raised Point aux Pins oysters produced in Grand Bay, Alabama, and processed at Bon Secour Fisheries are now available in the retailer's stores in the South region.

Multiexport Foods Expands Recall Of Cold Smoked Salmon 12oz Pack, 1.25 Lb Pack

December 28, 2012 Wal-Mart

Multiexport Foods, Inc of Miami, FL is expanding the voluntary recall that it launched Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 of cold smoked salmon, 12 oz Twin Pack and the 1.25 lb Pack under the “Paramount Reserve”, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. The recall is being expanded to include additional lot-sublot-batch codes.