Autore: Simona

Pierogi are Polish dumplings: rounds of soft dough folded over a potato and cottage cheese filling, boiled, then usually fried in butter. They are also a project, and that is part of the appeal. You make the dough, let it rest, boil the potatoes, cook …

– OPINION – Families do not eat promises. They eat food placed before them today, trusting that the people responsible for its safety have done their work before it reaches the table. That is why FDA’s latest commitments to prevent Cyclospora outbreaks deserve both support …

A Salmonella outbreak in Sweden has been linked to a type of produce. Sixteen people fell sick in the Salmonella Napoli outbreak that was suspected to have been caused by arugula from Italy. The Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) said patients are eight men and …

Results from decades of European food safety monitoring have been brought together in a database developed by researchers.  In the European Union, official food safety data collected by member states are submitted to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

The Food and Drug Administration has just published its 2025 report on the activities of the Coordinated Outbreak Response, Evaluation, & Emergency Preparedness teams. The FDA’s CORE+EP was originally established in 2011 as the CORE Network and was expanded in October 2024 to include an …

The cakey ones from most box mixes have given people the wrong idea of what a brownie is, which is a shame, because a properly fudgy one is the best thing you can get out of an oven in half an hour. Melted butter, chopped …

This is what we make on the weeknights when nobody wants to think about dinner. Yogurt-marinated chicken thighs, charred on a grill or under a broiler, sliced and tucked into warm pita with cool tzatziki, ripe tomatoes, and thin-sliced red onion. Under an hour from …

Schnitzel is worth getting right, and it asks for technique rather than expensive ingredients. Take a pork cutlet, pound it thin, and bread it with fine dry breadcrumbs — not panko. Fry it in enough clarified butter or lard that the coating puffs up and …

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for canned chicken Vienna-style sausages that were illegally imported from Jamaica, a country that is not eligible to export meat or poultry products to the United States.  The FSIS is continuing …

Veggie burgers have a reputation problem, mostly because so many recipes produce something dense, gummy, or falling apart in your hands. Pumpkin puree does two jobs here: it binds the patties, and its sweetness goes well with chipotle and cumin. Without it you taste mostly …