Cooking class in Tuscany

Walking along Magazine Street in New Orleans while in town for the 2026 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual meeting, I wasn’t expecting to encounter one of the week’s most revealing commentaries on food safety. Sure, cities often promote concerts, festivals, or sporting events. …

Ten Latin American countries are taking part in a project to strengthen their national food safety systems through risk analysis, with one of the leading entities being a U.S. university The effort is led by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the UN Food and …

Global supply chains and online marketplaces are adding to incident complexity, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). FSA was notified of 2,073 food and feed safety incidents in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales during 2025-2026; this is an increase of 14 percent from 1,825 in …

As part of its enforcement activities, the 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 have 15 days to respond to FDA warning …

More than 40 cases of a serious condition that can develop after an E. coli infection were reported in 2025 in Italy. Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a severe complication associated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections that can cause kidney failure, brain damage …

Most wine spritzers are just wine and soda. Boring. This one freezes watermelon cubes ahead of time and uses them instead of ice. As they melt, the spritzer gets more watermelon flavour instead of more watery. A large pitcher with frozen watermelon, thinly sliced cucumber, …

I had poached peaches at a dinner in Provence where the host served them in wide, shallow bowls with the syrup pooled around them and a spoonful of whipped cream on the side. The peaches were whole, halved, soft, and stained pink from the wine. …

Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week The scope of Cyclospora outbreaks nationwide continues to grow as more cases are confirmed. In relation to one outbreak, Taylor Farms has recalled all iceberg lettuce sold in the U.S. that was sourced from a processing plant in central …

Regular shortcake is fine. Spelt shortcake is better. Wholemeal spelt flour has a nuttiness that plain flour cannot match, and it makes the shortcake denser and more biscuit-like. Cold butter rubbed into the flour with raw cane sugar, vanilla, and salt, rolled out, cut into …

The colour of this bowl stopped me mid-scroll when I first saw it. A thick, cold blend of frozen strawberries, frozen peaches, and frozen bananas with fresh ginger, lime juice, and plant-based milk, poured into a bowl and covered in sliced fresh kiwi, fresh peaches, …