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No. 1 Source of Salt in Our Diet Isn't Chips ... It's Bread

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:47:59 CST

If you had to bet $5 on whether more salt in your diet came from bread or chips, you'd probably be out five bucks. Potato chips, pretzels, and popcorn actually rank a distant No. 10 on the CDC's list of the top 10 sources of sodium, released yesterday. Bread and...

5 Posh Culinary Vacations to Book This Fall

Dustin Lushing — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:01:13 CDT

There's no better time than autumn or winter, the harvest seasons, for foodies to embark on a luxurious gastronomic adventure. Consider these premier gourmet trips, rounded up by the Wall Street Journal : Wine : Spend 3 days refining your palate as you learn to taste, select, and pair top wines at...

The Bread That Changed Britain Now Getting Beat Up

Sarah Whitmire — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:34:05 CDT

What Henry Ford did for cars, the Chorleywood Flour Milling and Bakery Research Association laboratories did for bread in 1961: Hard fats, extra yeast, a very fast trip through the mixer, and a few chemicals yielded a soft, uniform sandwich loaf with twice the shelf life of traditional bread—and...

Americans Finally Trading White Bread for Wheat

Kate Schwartz — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:55:00 CDT

Wonder Bread may be losing its, well, wonder. When it comes to sliced bread, shoppers are spending more on whole wheat than white for the first time. Though white is still slightly ahead in volume, at 1.5 billion packages sold in the last year to 1.3 billion of...

Breadcrumb Latest Speed Bump for Collider

Will McCahill — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:29:00 CST

The enormous science project buried beneath the France-Switzerland border has seen all kinds of detours in its search for the so-called “God particle”—busted vacuum tubes, al-Qaeda moles—so the latest might not be a huge surprise: A piece of bread dropped by a bird onto an outdoor segment caused...

Foiled Robber Leaves Store With $40, Bread

Matt Cantor — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:19:00 CDT

A man approached a Long Island convenience store counter with a baseball bat, demanding cash; the shop owner whipped out his shotgun, prompting the man’s tearful pleas for mercy. The impassioned display worked, Newsday reports: Mohammad Sohail took pity on the robber and gave him $40 and a loaf of...

'Whole Grain' Lawsuit Hits at Truth About Health Food

Rob Quinn — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:05:06 CDT

The food industry is coming under pressure to start telling the whole truth about whole grain products, BusinessWeek reports. Sara Lee, facing a lawsuit from a consumer advocacy group, has agreed to change the labels on its Soft & Smooth bread to reflect that it's made from just 30% whole...

Consumer Prices Rise in March; Oil Blasts Past $114

Jonas Oransky — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:22:40 CDT

Consumer prices rose an anticipated 0.3% in March, propelled by hikes in the costs of energy, food, and airline tickets; a commodities rush and weak dollar also pushed crude oil to a record high today. Energy costs rose 1.9% in March, the AP reports, and the past year...

France Finally Wins Bread Battle

Kevin Spak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:40:00 CDT

It's been a dozen years since France won the Baking World Cup, but the baguette's homeland took home the gold today, reports the Wall Street Journal. The drought was odd, because, as America’s coach says, “It's a French competition. And it's bread.” America has won two of the last three,...