Cooking class in Tuscany

The unusual thing about this sorbet is the butter. You melt two tablespoons in a saucepan, scrape in the seeds from a vanilla bean, add the pod, and cook five diced peaches in it until they fall apart. Most sorbets start with a simple syrup. …

I first tasted strawberry and balsamic together at a dinner party where the host macerated sliced strawberries in balsamic vinegar and sugar for thirty minutes and served them over ice cream. This recipe puts the balsamic inside the ice cream. Fresh strawberries sit in sugar …

Spain-based MaserGrup is on the look-out for acquisitions as the food-and-drinks business aims to double sales within four years. The post Spain’s MaserGrup eyes M&A amid sales push appeared first on Just Food.

Vandemoortele has proposed the sale of a UK plant as a step toward gaining regulatory approval for its acquisition of bakery peer Délifrance. The post Vandemoortele proposes UK plant sale to secure Délifrance deal OK appeared first on Just Food.

Danone has announced two transactions the company said will expand its presence in Asia-Pacific’s “fast-growing, healthy nutrition space”. The post Danone strikes Asia-Pacific deal one-two appeared first on Just Food.

— OPINION — A father named Chris George spent the better part of a year trying to answer a question that should not have been hard to answer: who grew and processed the lettuce that nearly killed his son? Colton George, now ten, was nine …

More than 20 people are sick in Denmark as part of a Salmonella outbreak. Since mid-May, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) has recorded 25 cases of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium. Patients are 11 males and 14 females. Sick people are between 8 and 81 years old …

— OPINION — My father is a coffee enthusiast. For his birthday, I wanted to find him something he had never tried before. That sent me searching through specialty coffee websites looking for a unique gift. Then I found it. Coffee made from animal droppings. …

Sweden has recorded a recent increase in the number of people infected with Campylobacter. The Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) said the rise in infections was expected and is at similar levels to the previous year. From the end of May, the number of …

As part of its enforcement activities, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners generally have 15 working days to respond …