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Stop & Shop, workers reach tentative contract agreement

Stop & Shop supermarket workers and company officials reached a tentative contract agreement Sunday that includes wage ...

Sara Lee

How many cherries in frozen pie? FDA may soon drop rules

President Donald Trump may soon be able to claim a sweet victory for his deregulation push, with officials preparing to get ...

Ivanka Trump, Sara Abera

Ivanka Trump promotes women's empowerment in Ethiopia

Far from the din of Washington, Ivanka Trump toured businesses run by women in Ethiopia on Sunday while promoting a White ...

NYC Chinese eatery heats up cultural appropriation debate

A New York City restaurant owner who touted her "clean" American-Chinese cuisine and derided Chinese dishes as swimming in ...

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan whiskey distillery to open fall 2020 in Nashville

More information is being released about music icon Bob Dylan's project in downtown Nashville in conjunction with the 50th ...

Ruth Reichl chats about chicken soup and Gourmet magazine

Memoirist no more? It's hard to believe, but "Save Me the Plums" just might be the last such narrative for Ruth Reichl.

6 states, DC sue over changes to school lunch rules

Six states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday, saying it weakened nutritional ...

Action demanded after 1,100 dead dolphins wash up in France

The dolphins' bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off. But what shocked French marine researchers wasn't just the ...

Affordable music for the family in NYC? Try a jazz club

New York has long been a city known for jazz. What's less well-known is how kid- and family-friendly jazz performances here ...

Elizabeth Warren

Warren proposes breaking up Big Ag

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for the breakup of what she says are unfair farming monopolies. Warren says ...

Colton Herta, Josef Newgarder

Rookie Herta wins IndyCar Classic at 18 years old

Everything went Colton Herta's way on Sunday, from the victory on the race track to the sparkling wine on the podium instead ...

'There is death all over': Cyclone Idai toll rises above 300

Mozambique began three days of national mourning on Wednesday for more than 200 victims of Cyclone Idai, while the death toll ...

Are eggs good or bad for you? New research rekindles debate

The latest U.S. research on eggs won't go over easy for those who can't eat breakfast without them. Adults who ate about 1 ...

Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oil

Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That's according to the ...

US regulators clear path for genetically modified salmon

U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light to salmon genetically modified to grow about twice as fast as normal, but the ...

US regulators outline oversight on meat grown in lab dishes

Burgers made by growing cow cells in a lab dish have a clearer path to reaching supermarkets as U.S. regulators on Thursday ...

Advice on salt, hidden in an array of foods, gets specific

It can be hidden in bread, pizza, soup and other packaged foods and restaurant meals. Now, advice to watch out for salt is ...

Granny Jela draws millions in Serbia with online cooking

What to cook today? Serbs looking for ideas are increasingly turning to the Balkan country's 69-year-old hit chef Granny ...

Donald Trump, Kevin Cramer, Easton Stick, John Hoeven

Fast food at White House for North Dakota football champs

The smell of burgers and fries wafted through the State Dining Room as President Donald Trump celebrated the championship ...

Experts say portrait isn't of George Washington's chef

A portrait long thought to be of George Washington's enslaved chef, who cooked for the former president at Mount Vernon and ...