Bakery

The tasty flourishes that Karen Drumheller applies to desserts have long been
familiar to shoppers at her Reading, PA Giant supermarket where she is head cake decorator. Drumheller won first place overall, most original and best of theme at last
month’s ChocolateFest in Hershey, a competition among area confectioners,
retailers, restaurants, hotels and caterers. …

Kellogg Co. must fix sanitation violations at an Atlanta plant after the
contamination of Eggo buttermilk waffles with Listeria bacteria, the Food and
Drug Administration said in a Jan. 27 letter released today. …

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Inc., is voluntarily
recalling all date codes of fresh&easy Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars as a
result of a recall initiated by Thumb Oilseed Producers. This company supplies
an ingredient that has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. …

Michelle Halbrook came in first nationwide and placed third in
the world among Dairy Queen employees in last month’s Iron Tip ice cream cake
decorating competition, held at the company’s biannual convention in Cancun,
Mexico. …

With 350 million Facebook accounts, how much do businesses really
influence consumers when they launch pages on the site to attract fans and to
pepper them with messages and offers? To begin to answer that question, we partnered in this experiment with Dessert Gallery (DG), a popular Houston-based bakery and caf chain. …