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...Retail and food experts say that worry over the high cost of prime meat cuts and the economic downturn have more shoppers checking out supermarket offal offerings. But the return to eating innards was under way even before this year's financial crisis, as celebrity chefs and restaurateurs have encouraged a return to cooking organs such as liver and kidneys, which once enjoyed a central place in British cooking. (See how farmers around the world prepare their crops for harvest...
Business is starting to catch on, too, not least because of the potential long-term cost savings. While the initial investment in new digital lighting is steep, the long life of the lights means that it can be a smart one-time buy. In Britain this year, supermarket giants Tesco and Sainsbury have both announced plans to substitute fluorescent with LED lighting in their freezer sections. Hotel chains are also making the switch...
...first time in years, pet foods have reappeared on the shelves of our neighborhood convenience store. This is an indicator established by Salah Mahmoud, one of TIME's translators in the Iraqi capital, who told me in the summer of 2003, "Let them start selling dog food at Wardah Supermarket; then I'll know life is getting better." Salah had a German shepherd, and dog food had been an unobtainable luxury during the 12 years Iraq had been under U.N. economic sanctions. (See pictures of life returning to the streets of Iraq...
Europe became a better place for less-than-picture-perfect fruits and vegetables this month as the European Union scrapped rules banning oddly shaped produce from supermarket shelves. "This marks the new dawn for the curvy cucumber and the knobby carrot," said E.U. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel. (See a brief history of competitive eating...
...weird. I do my office hours at grocery stores. I don't go do town halls." - On his unorthodox method of connecting with voters - greeting and talking with them at supermarket entrances (New Yorker Conference...