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Private-equity firm Apollo and other investors will purchase 49.9% of the business, giving the beer giant much-needed cash to pay down debt from its 2016 SABMiller acquisition. Top Featured Tags: – FoodPress Release Distribution Service

The manufacturing process must change, and not just for change’s sake. Lives, not just reputations, are at stake, writes Phil Kafarakis, president emeritus of the Specialty Food Association. Top Featured Tags: – FoodPress Release Distribution Service

Despite the pandemic, companies found ways to streamline their operations as needed and expand their portfolios when opportunities arose. These are some of the largest moves this year. Top Featured Tags: – FoodPress Release Distribution Service

A multi-year Listeria outbreak in Switzerland that killed 10 people was linked to pasteurized cheese products, according to a study. The incident highlights the risk for recontamination of cheese during manufacturing and emphasizes the need for routine sampling of products, manufacturing equipment, and the production environment, said researchers in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The…

The North America Meat Institute (NAMI) is likely to file a writ of certiorari for U.S. Supreme Court review of California’s Proposition 12, which the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has repeatedly declined to hear. Passed by California’s largely urban voters in November 2018, Prop  12 imposes space requirements regarding breeding pigs and veal calves…

A California company is recalling herring packed in oil because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Officials have not reported how the problem was discovered. There is concern that consumers may still have the product in their homes because of its long shelf life. The recalled herring has an “expiration” date of Aug. 8,…

When it comes to Christmas pickings, there are no rules… This is the fridge’s finest hour. A bowl of cranberry sauce full to the brim; shards of cold roast goose, turkey perhaps; some cold roast potatoes, craggy and golden, and, joy of joys, a saucer of cold pigs-in-blankets. There is bread sauce in a gravy…

There were plenty of dark clouds for our restaurant critic in 2020, but a few spectacular silver linings, too A chilly Saturday night in February and I am walking wide-eyed along London’s Gerrard Street, staring into brightly lit Chinese restaurants which should be crammed but instead are not. Waiters, who normally make feeding the crowds…

Boxing Day BLT, veg samosas with cranberry sauce, and Christmas pudding eccles cakes with marzipan – stylish ways to use up excess food The thing about Christmas day, as no one’s stomach needs reminding, is that there is always so much food. It is, however, a truth universally acknowledged that the whole point of cooking…

We teamed up with A to Z Wineworks to highlight companies that not only do good, but also make great products. From our favorite baking staples to the bright and fruity Bubbles we’re toasting 2021 with, every product on this list comes from a certified B Corp—aka companies that maintain the highest standards of economic,…

If 2020 brought us anything good, it was a new crop of DIY projects, from email newsletters to sourdough pop-ups to sweatshirts tie-dyed with onion skins and turmeric. One of the projects I’ve especially enjoyed following are food zines. I’m talking lo-fi, 1970s punk slash 1990s riot grrrl types of publications, with hand-drawn illustrations and…

If you’ve been spending all this extra time in your house this year, and haven’t felt a startling urge to replace everything you own—I’m at once in awe and completely jealous of you. I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time painting, rehanging shelves, replacing framed art, scouring Facebook marketplace for furniture to flip, and doing…