Avocados and Health
The Health Journal column of The Wall Street Journal featured an article that drew attention to the issue of whether many nutrients in fruits and vegetables require fats to be absorbed. A researcher who does a lot of work on nutrition, Dr. Steven K. Clinton of the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center, came out with […]
Wal-Mart Advances Green Movement
Horace Greeley may have advised young men to “Go West”, but if you really want to see the future of Wal-Mart’s sustainability initiatives you should look east from Bentonville and across the pond to announced a commitment that by 2010 it will stop sending any waste at all from its 307 stores to landfills. Everything […]
Trying to Sell Books
ChicagoBusiness.com, a unit of Crain Communications, Inc., is reporting that Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson, authors of Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, a popular screed that is targeted for kids, are upset because McDonald’s is, allegedly, using “front groups” to attack their book. The web site quotes Wilson: […]
Sunkist Wake-up Call?
I went to sleep last night thinking about what I would write about the decision of Paramount Citrus to leave the Sunkist co-op and begin marketing its own fruit. I woke up dreaming of pomegranates, which is a very good thing for a pundit, especially a Perishable Pundit, as it is written in the Talmud […]
Future Foodservice Opportunities
If you are going to be in New York and don’t have a lavish expense account, you could do a lot worse than consult the guide featured in New York magazine to “New York’s Best Cheap Eats”. Cheap is, of course, relative and, in New York they set it at an entrée price of around […]
Four More Years For Irvin?
Tommy Irvin has served as Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Agriculture since 1969. He is not only Georgia’s senior constitutional officer but has served as head of his state’s agriculture department longer than anyone else in the United States. He is universally recognized as a powerful and innovative advocate for the interests of Georgia. […]
Bird Flu Warnings Demand Attention
Avian influenza seems on everyone’s list as the next disaster to be prepared for. The International Dairy Deli Bakery Association offers help. The Produce Marketing Association just offered a Webinar and has a follow-up one scheduled. The National Chicken Council also offers a separate web site chock full with information. The good news: The National […]
Be “In The Know” With Dairy/Deli/Bakery Guidebook
The International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association is now taking pre-publication orders and offering members pre-publication discounts to its What’s In Store 2007. This handy compendium on trends in the industry is a must have for anyone seriously involved in these important perishable fields. And this year you will get expanded Deli PLU data plus quarterly updates on […]
Nutrition Labeling Guidelines Rules
Aaaahhh it’s back! The arrival on my doorstep (or to be more exact in my e-mail box) of the news that The Food and Drug Administration published its final rule regarding “Food Labeling: Guidelines for Voluntary Nutrition Labeling of Raw Fruits, Vegetables and Fish” brought back tons of memories. When the very first regulations were […]
Whole Foods And The Lobster Tale
The decision by Whole Foods to stop selling live lobsters but continue selling lobster meat in other forms has been greeted with some skepticism. David Merrefield at Supermarket News put it this way: The lesson to be learned from this is that in retailing, when it’s necessary to make a change, tout that change as […]
