Food and Drink - Most Recent
Pages
2
Avoiding recalls by tracking food from seed to supermarket
Mar 29, 2011
A new food safety law that requires stores, growers, and distributors to be able to trace every stop in the supply chain is creating a whole new business.
4
Starbucks and Green Mountain double up for single-serve
Mar 10, 2011
Starbucks is joining forces with Green Mountain to sell single-serve coffee and tea for Green Mountain's Keurig machines. Green Mountain already dominates the coffee-pod market. With Starbucks, its machines will become the industry standard.
7
The pork industry adopts a new ad slogan
Mar 4, 2011
After 25 years, the National Pork Board is changing its advertising tune. Out goes "The Other White Meat." In comes "Pork: Be Inspired."
0
U.N. reports prices for many foods at record highs
Mar 3, 2011
Shortages and price shocks have helped along protests in the Middle East. One factor in rising food prices is climate change, says the Earth Policy Institute.
4
California lawmaker lobbies for sweetened-beverage tax
Mar 2, 2011
A California lawmaker has proposed a penny-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages like soda. Bob Moon speaks to LA Times consumer columnist David Lazarus about whether the tax would work and why it may hit lower-income households hardest.
0
All going up: Oil prices, gas prices, a good glass of wine
Feb 24, 2011
File this under everything is related: The rise and decline of oil and wine prices march almost in lockstep.
0
Want to buy a latte? There's an app for that
Jan 19, 2011
Starbucks announced that customers can now pay for their coffee with their smart phones. Nancy Marshall Genzer has more.
3
Cupcakes go to Wall Street
Jan 10, 2011
Crumbs Bake Shop, a national cupcake chain, announced that it will be going public. The company plans on putting the money generated from listing shares on an exchange towards a major expansion. But is this just a fad? Alisa Roth reports.
3
A black market for mooncakes in China
Dec 31, 2010
China's Mid-Autumn Festival and its tradition of eating mooncakes has lent itself to an underground economy worth billions.
11
Can methyl iodide be used as a pesticide?
Dec 27, 2010
The former pesticide of choice, methyl bromide, was banned internationally. The alternative is methyl iodide, which scientists is toxic. But the state of California says its toxicity can be minimized through regulation. Marketplace's Adriene Hill reports.
Pages
Follow Marketplace's coverage of food and drink -- including trends, places, people, and food industry news and events.
Buzzworthy
Recent comments on our stories..
Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld
Journalism: Practiced. Excellent interview. Thank you.
Annapolis57 | May 17, 2013 Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld's interview on Marketplace today was absolutely unbelievable. Really. Is one of his rules not to believe your own spin? I...
jgrothues | May 16, 2013 Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld
Ryssdal's interview with Rumsfeld was breathtakingly inappropriate. "Marketplace?" If Ryssdal wants to promote his obvious biases...
rcd43 | May 16, 2013 How World Finance makes a killing lending on the installment (loan) plan
There is something fundamentally wrong with predatory lending businesses, whether they are pay day loans or installment contracts. The business...
entropyman | May 15, 2013
