Dining calendar (Louisville Courier-Journal) Food writer Ron Mikulak offers a weekly listing of restaurant news, special meals, food events, wine tastings, cooking classes, culinary competitions and more....more...Jones Soda, Reeds, Inc.: Benefit From the Booming Flavored Water Market (Seeking Alpha via Yahoo! Finance) Smallcap Investor submits: Odd as it may sound, water has become a growth market. Im referring, of course, not to good, old-fashioned tap water, but rather designer flavored waters that are featured prominently on grocery and health food store shelves....more... A Healthy Market (Hartford Courant) Whole Foods Makes Stars Of Some Local Products, And It Wants To Stock More Kathleen Lenane remembers how badly she and her partner Craig Colvin wanted to get their Bear Pond Farm pesto into Whole Foods. "We drove through a blizzard to get to the Edgewater, N.J., store, which is the closest to the regional headquarters, and had to stay overnight because we couldn't get home," Lenane said with a ......more... Sandwich Cookies Get Smarter with Arrival of Late July (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) HYANNIS, Mass.----Fans of rich dark chocolate, real Madagascar vanilla beans and green tea get the treat of their dreams with the arrival of Late July Organic Snacks' new line of mouth-watering organic sandwich cookies....more... Summer's trendy tipples (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Bartenders - or mixologists - are getting creative with the season's cocktails, turning out concoctions such as (from left) the Watermelon Mojito, Blueberry Martini, strawberry lemonade (puree of fresh strawberries and citron vodka) and White Cosmopolitan....more... Globe South listings (Boston Globe) Comprehensive listings for galleries, plays, music, and other happenings in the area. CONCERTS...more... Time for change at Trancas (The Malibu Times) Changes abound in Malibu, including at the Trancas shopping center, which is in for a face lift and two new eateries....more... FOOD TO GO (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) Store ships meals People on the go should be happy to know that there are a growing number of meal alternatives for their busy lives, and MagicKitchen.com is one of them. The online business, which is based in Los Altos, Calif., allows folks to order gourmet meals online. Meal selections are changed quarterly and are prepared by chefs to fit folks' varied tastes and desires....more... Buying American? It's not in the bag (USA Today) Marketing expert Phil Lempert was sent to the market, with reporter in tow, to research this question: If you want to buy foods produced only in the USA, what are your options in the supermarket?...more... |