Richard Reinwald, owner of the Huntington institution, Reinwald’s Bakery, will testify tomorrow in front of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Senate.
A third generation baker, Reinwald will tell the senators the crisis confronted by one individual business, as well as an entire industry. Within the last sixteen months the cost of goods used [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Uncle Wally, the former Famous Amos head who now runs gourmet and wholesale muffin company Uncle Wally’s in Shirley, has acquired SKU Foods, a Missouri-based manufacturer of ready-to-bake muffin dough.
Uncle Wally’s actually struck a distribution deal with SKU in 2007, but with the purchase, the local company said it will be able to roll out [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, Hamptons, restaurants on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Hampton’s Restaurant Week has returned, giving locals a chance to sample some of the South Fork’s best dishes without taking out a second mortgage to pay for it.
Beginning March 30 and running through April 6, several Hampton’s eateries will offer a prix fix, three-course meal for $21.95 per person.
Also, a few Long Island wineries will [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, holidays on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In yesterday’s Washington Post there’s a piece on Irish food by this writer. It’s a chronicle of some meals while rambling around the West. What was truly surprising was not that the Irish are eating as well as anyone anywhere, but that the Auld Sod has emerged from a down-at-heels backwater to become a modern [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elderly, food on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Bronx seniors are reportedly peeved at a city pilot program that replaced the daily delivery of hot meals-on-wheels with frozen dinners that do not taste all that good.
According to an article in the Village Voice, residents are more upset with the city program, called Senior Options, for changing the meal plan, but at the center [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agriculture, food, issues on February 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The massive meat recall that hit the country last week disgusted many, as the Humane Society published videos of workers at California-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Packing Co. forcing downer cows, those too sick to stand, via forklifts into our food supply.
But John Lincoln, president of the New York Farm Bureau said the recall should have [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, Gary Ackerman, health, meat on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of Long Island’s congressional delegation, Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-Long Island, has a beef with U.S. slaughterhouses.
Ackerman today sent a letter to the United States Department of Agriculture, asking them to investigate all U.S. slaughterhouses that process beef after the Humane Society released a video (warning: link contains graphic images) of cow mistreatment and abuses [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, philanthropy, United Way on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
An e-mail exchange came our way from two philanthropic outfits that involve helping those of us who are less financially fortunate to pay utility bills. Give them something to eat and slaughter deer at the same time.
Christopher Hahn, chief executive of the United Way of Long Island sent out a mass e-mail touting [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogs, food, restaurants on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Known as diner heaven, a buttered roll with a regular coffee kind of place, the New York Times has discovered there are some special tea destinations out here.
In a recent story, born and bred Island Girl Nicole Cotroneo took readers on a tea safari, from a “doily of a shop” in Stony Brook to [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alternative energy, Charles Schumer, food on January 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
You may have noticed the cost of milk is moo-ving higher these days (Is this pun forgivable?), close to 35 percent higher, to be exact.
According to Sen. Charles Schumer’s office, which surveyed 90 grocery stores in New York City and Long Island, the price hike is a result of the spiking price of corn feed, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged deaths, food, Kozy Shack on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The ranks are thinning for Long Island business innovators, the ones who made companies work, thrive and flourish here by fronting quality products. Vincent Gruppuso, founder of Hicksville’s Kozy Shack Enterprises, concocter of a rice pudding that brings smiles to the gloomiest here and abroad, died Dec. 29 at age 67 due [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, Web sites on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
So your favorite pizza joint delivers. Big deal. Do they deliver if, say, you’re stuck in Vermont?
A Nassau business, IWantNYPizza, has made a living sending our local delicacy far and wide … to California even. Today, Web royalty Yahoo featured the company’s owner, Ed Powell, in its People of the Web feature, which includes an [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, J. Kings, restaurants on October 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Privately held food distributor J. Kings Food Service Professionals purchased Butcher’s Pride, a Plainview meat cutting company.
The company said it will also be launching a meat cutting division that it says will specialize in shipping portion-controlled cuts of meat for restaurants. The smaller cuts of meat will help the restaurants to save money.
Holtsville-based J. Kings [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, health, Nassau, trans fats on September 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
There’s a new outlaw in Nassau, and it is one greasy bandit.
Nassau’s board of health said it voted unanimously to ban the use of trans fats from county restaurants. Trans fats, or hydrogenated oils, are a particularly unhealthy fat that not only raises the body’s level of bad cholesterol, but lowers the level of good [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged delivery, food, supermarkets on September 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
With traffic problems like ours, it’s no wonder delivery services do well on Long Island.
Stop & Shop announced today it will open its third Peapod facility on Long Island. Peapod is a delivery service that the supermarket uses in the Northeast. Shoppers select their groceries from Stop & Shop’s Web site and Peapod delivers then [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, retail on September 17, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Who ever thought people would want another grocery store on their block? They are in Albany, where locals are crying out for California specialty grocer Trader Joe’s to drop anchor.
According to a story in The Business Review, Albany citizens have launched a letter-writing campaign to behoove the grocer to open a shop upstate. Long [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, restaurants, Smithtown, Web sites on August 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Here’s an easy recipe for a useful Web site.
First, take your idea — in this case you want to create a database of all of the restaurants located in a given area — and couple it with a few money-saving coupons from the eateries, throw in some links to food-related articles, recipes from celebrity chefs, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charles Schumer, fishing, food, Town of Brookhaven on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
According the Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a technical glitch caused when two loads of scup caught in the winter were counted towards Long Island’s summer quota for catching the fish has caused quite a dilemma for local fishermen. The mistake resulted in the summer daily quota of scup loads falling to 60 pounds from 250 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, DMV, food, health, recalls, solar on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Seven people in Suffolk County have reportedly become ill from E. Coli poisoning after consuming undercooked ground beef.
In one case, the bacteria infected a North Carolina girl, causing her kidneys to shut down.
So here’s the fairly recent contamination tally so far: Spinach, Taco Bell, pet food, mushrooms, Veggie Booty, peanut butter and now ground beef.
Is [...]
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Southern grocery store chain The Fresh Market is apparently looking for a good plot on Long Island to build one of its markets on.
According to Kamcity.com (the one-stop shop for Key Account Management), the Greensboro, N.C.-based market is looking for about 20,000 square feet in an upscale neighborhood in New Jersey, areas north of Manhattan [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, DMV, food, health, recalls, solar on July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Veggie Booty, the recalled salmonella-laden health-food treat, sickened more than 60 people, according to an Associated Press report.
The snack, which was voluntarily recalled by Sea Cliff maker Robert’s American Gourmet because it suspected the seasoning, a Chinese import, was tainted with the bacteria, afflicted 15 New Yorkers.
Many of the sick were small children.
From the story:
The [...]
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A Long Island baker thinks dietary restrictions shouldn’t keep people from their cravings for cookies.
Nutrition Creations, a Bay Shore company, said today it just released a line of gluten-free cookies for people that are sensitive to the compounds.
Gluten is essentially the protein part of wheat. The compound is responsible for the elasticity in dough — [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, DMV, food, recalls on July 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Roberts American Gourmet, the Sea Cliff company that last week recalled its Veggie Booty healthy puffed rice snack due to possible Salmonella contamination, blamed China for the tainted treats.
The company said the snack’s China-made seasoning, which is a blend of dried green leaf vegetables, salt and spices, tested positive for the bacteria.
Salmonella, if eaten, can [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book Revue, diversity, food, Optimum Online on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Chef Masaharu Morimoto, the famed Iron Chef Japanese, will be in Huntington this September.
The former participant on both the original Japanese version and the American version of cult cooking competition show Iron Chef will visit independent book store Book Revue to sign his new cookbook, “Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking.”
What’s even better, he’s [...]
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The North Fork Craft Beer, BBQ and Wine Festival is set for August 11 and it sounds like it is going to be one hell of a party.
The festival is going to be packed with beers crafted by local brewers including the Blue Point Brewing Company, as well as beers from various New York breweries [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advice, cooking, diversity, food, rankings, team building on July 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Team building, yuck! But throw in some food and even misanthropes like myself might grin, or should I say chew, and bear it.
DOAR Litigation, a tech and intellectual property consulting firm based in Lynbrook, just completed an in-office cooking seminar.
Employees participated in one-hour workshops at the close of the workday, learning recipes and cooking techniques [...]
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It seems Starbucks is not welcome in the North Fork, at least that’s what we’re hearing.
Here’s a bit from the Associated Press story:
Residents of the North Fork of Long Island are apparently suffering from Frapuccino rage.
The Starbucks global chain of coffee shops has moved into Greenport, Southold and Mattituck. The towns have long resisted [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, Entenmann's, food, retail, television, VAI on July 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of the country’s best known coffee cake makers said it will offer a new line of products that’s perfectly suited to accompany its baked goods.
The Bay Shore-based company said it entered into a marketing agreement with Coffee Holding Co. Inc., a major coffee distributor, to create an Entenmann’s-branded line of coffees.
Coffee Holding, which essentially [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, DMV, food, recalls on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s an unhealthy healthy snack.
Roberts American Gourmet, a Sea Cliff company that specializes in making healthy alternatives to snacks like popcorn and potato chips, issued a recall of its Veggie Booty.
The company said the product, which is essentially puffed rice and corn that has been sprinkled with a seasoned mixture of minced kale, carrots and [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, food, housing, restaurants on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
One of New York City’s best chefs is a Long Island boy who cooks seafood with a passion that could only come from growing up along on the water.
James Pasternak, who runs Esca, a Southern Italian seafood restaurant in Midtown, just released a new cookbook full of his special seafood recipes.
But Pasternak, who was dubbed [...]
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