America’s Pork Producers Provided Arizona Food Bank With 60,000 Meals

March 8, 2011 The National Pork Board

Arizona is one of the top five states with the most food insecure children under 18 according to Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Today, America’s pork producers donated 12,000 pounds of pork to St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix as part of the National Pork Industry Forum March 3-4.

New Chicken Recipes With Images For Spring Dining & Entertaining

New from the National Chicken Council: four new chicken recipes, with top-quality photography, that taste of spring: light in flavor and prepared with the fresh tastes of the years first herbs and vegetables. All of these recipes are for quick, one-dish meals that are perfect for busy weeknight family meals.

The Gourmet Butcher Releases A Culinary Butchering Course On DVD Featuring Vermont Master Butcher Cole Ward

A gathering of Vermont food enthusiasts, farmers, chefs and press showed up for a culinary event at Michaels on the Hill Restaurant to celebrate the fine art of butchery and the launch of The Gourmet Butcher: from Farm to Table a unique DVD series that takes viewers through the butchering process from primal cut to gourmet meal.

Beef Industry Carves A Course

Colorado native Jen Johnson loved raising cattle and eating steak, a lifestyle some of her friends at Princeton University found a bit hard to swallow. Ms. Johnson tried winning them over with sheer enthusiasm. But she soon realized she needed help persuading her salad-nibbling sorority sisters to order steaks. So she went back to school to get her MBAMasters of Beef Advocacy.

Euroshop 2011: Bizerba Presents A Total Store Solution With A New 3D Applicator

March 7, 2011 Bizerba GmbH & Co. KG

With the GLM-E Retail a combination of packaging machine, scales and pricing tool retailers can independently process fresh food even in small preparation spaces and thus flexibly respond to variations in demand. A new 3D applicator makes it possible to apply up to two labels at any desired position of the packaging surface. As the user controls both the packaging machine and the pricing tool via the same touch screen terminal, a higher degree of data consistency and reliability is ensured. Bizerba will launch the system in North America during the year.