Although these products were intended for animal feed and not human food, the issues are similar. The need for COOL is once again driven home by the Food and Drug Administration's discovery that the tainted Chinese feed additives were labeled as wheat gluten and rice protein but actually were ordinary wheat flour illegally mixed with melamine and related banned compounds in an effort to boost the apparent protein content. Trade with countries that have different production standards and...

The increasing demand for corn to make ethanol motor fuel and feed cattle also has been blamed for driving up food prices, although no research has been done to back up that claim, Ockert said. Although gasoline gets all the attention for price increases, costs are growing for another necessary commodity: food and beverages. Just in time for this summer's outdoor grilling season, beef prices increased 5.1 percent, poultry 4.3 percent and pork 3.4 percent in the first five months of this...

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Cuisines are defined by clusters of ingredients that make up regional or national flavor palettes and by techniques that reflect cooks' collective conclusions about how best to achieve particular effects. We might enjoy a juicy grilled steak, but we swoon over marinated chicken simmered in its own juices or falling-off-the-bone beef braised in a garlicky tomato cooking sauce (sofrito) enriched with wine. The Latin American estofado belongs to a large family of European dishes like the...

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