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April 17, 2012
Ben & Jerry's Scoops Free Ice Cream Today to Benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation
Ben & Jerry's annual Free Cone Day was scheduled for April 3, but tornadoes forced some local shops to play a make-up game, and that making up goes down today. Three local shops are partaking in the festivities: Plano, McKinney and the Shops of Highland Village. The Plano store has lined up some ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2011
Here's How Dallas is Celebrating American Cheese Month
Most food holidays start with "National." National Tequila Day and National Rum Day have both been marked on City of Ate in recent months. Tomorrow is National Taco Day, and if you're inclined you can refer to this calendar, which demonstrates nearly every day of the year is devoted to a specific fo ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Conservative Moms Claim They Don't Like Schweddy Balls in Their Ice Cream
Ben & Jerry'sRecently we told you all about Ben & Jerry's new ice cream Schweddy Balls, which is based on the SNL skit featuring Alec Baldwin. Well, One Million Moms, a project of the American Family Association, which promotes "the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary e ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Responds to Dublin Dr Pepper's Response to Corporate's Lawsuit
Via.Back to the Dr Pepper-on-Dr Pepper lawsuit ...Early this morning we posted Dublin Dr Pepper's response to the lawsuit filed in June by Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is trying to limit Dublin's real-deal Imperial Sugar-spiked soda pop to a six-county area and alleges the oldest Dr ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2011
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Czar Hunter Rose Has The Coolest Job: Handing Out Free Cones
If a mega-tornado strikes Oak Lawn or zombies take over the city, there's one thing we here at the Observer won't have to worry about while we're barricaded in the break room: a food shortage. Not only do we have enough of those neon orange crackers to feed everyone for three days, we also g ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
nib chocolate's Stephen Smith on the Sweet Life
Here's some hopeful news for all you C students out there: At the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris, Stephen Smith's "worst subject of everything was chocolate." Apparently, he got better. In fact, he got good enough to operate his own wholesale chocolate business, nib cho ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Bake Sale Bandits
Local Movement Fights for Cottage Food Bill.
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February 15, 2011
Nation, Grab Your Spoons and Go to Ben & Jerry's
Four years ago, Stephen Colbert and Ben & Jerry's teamed up to create a new ice cream flavor, Americone Dream, and today the flavor is available at all Ben & Jerry's locations. Today you can get two-for-one scoops of Americone Dream, vanilla ice cream blended with caramel and bits of fudge-c ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Southern Cheeses Snubbed at Good Food Awards
The cows certainly are happy in California.Southern cheesemakers were shut out of the Good Food Awards, a new initiative to recognize the best-tasting artisan edibles made in accordance with sustainable principles. In a weekend ceremony hosted by Alice Waters, eight awards were given in the c ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
So Dean Foods Is Eliminating the "Schepps" Name in Dallas. Well, That Doesn't Seem Right.
Soup Can"Schepps" has been a brand name in Dallas since 1942, when Harmon Schepps started the dairy with a single truck that became a ginormous bidness since swallowed up by Cityplace-based Dean Foods. (Fun fact: Harmon was called to testify in front of the Warren Commission due to his friendship ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
How to Build Dallas' Reputation as a Chocolate City
Every chocolatier at next weekend's Chocolate Conference, sponsored by DallasChocolate.org, is slated to participate in a roundtable discussion of "the state of chocolate in Dallas." Panel members will presumably debate the quality and quantity of artisanal chocolate available in the DFW area ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Cats and Dogs Living Together, Mass Hysteria As Coke, Dr Pepper Sign Distribution Deal
On a related note, I bought this from a guy for $4 outta the back of his truck a few weeks ago. The box was a wreck, but the glass Dr Pepper logo was worth it.That's the word out of Plano this morning: Legacy Drive-HQ'd Dr Pepper Snapple Group issued a press release moments ago announcing that Th ... More >>
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May 17, 2010
Carlos Quintanilla's Found a New Delicious Target For Protest: Plano-Based Frito-Lay
Now might be a good time to go back and read Megan Feldman's '06 profile of Carlos QuintanillaOooh, just got a press release about an "informational protest" scheduled from 4-6 afternoon at a 7-Eleven close to my house -- the one at Marsh and Forest Lanes, to be precise, as it's apparently "the l ... More >>
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August 24, 2009
Photos: Bean To Bar Tasting with DallasChocolate.org
Diana Merrill ClaussenField greens with chocolate NapoleonFor the first event in their brief history, dallaschocolate.org hosted chocolatiers Alan McClure and Steve DeVries for a tasting and a dinner focused on American "bean to bar" chocolate production.Teresa Gubbins, who recapped the event for ... More >>
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June 18, 2009
Strange and Passioniate Emissions From Yesterday's EPA Cement Kiln Hearing
Alexa SchirtzingerIf this picture were at all legible, you'd see Deirdre Tinker testifying while dressed as a cement kilnAmong the first 60 commenters at yesterday's public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvi ... More >>
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May 26, 2009
Food For Thought 5.26.09
"We're seeing comfort foods, back-to-the-basics foods do real well in this economy and that's speaking to some of the success we're seeing with hot dogs." (Todd Hale, senior vice president for consumer and shopper insights at Nielsen, on the 5.3 percent booset in revenue for hot dog companies--would ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
Food For Thought 4.8.09
"Coke's messages were totally unacceptable, creating an impression which is likely to mislead that Coca-Cola cannot contribute to weight gain, obesity and tooth decay." (From a statement released by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission regarding an advertising campaign run by the Atl ... More >>
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January 30, 2009
Food For Thought...
"We don't have a good idea right now in terms of how much of that product is still out there; it may have largely been consumed." (Stephen Sundlof of the FDA after the government extended a recall of peanut products produced by the Peanut Corporation of America's Blakely, GA, plant to include the pa ... More >>
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January 27, 2009
Update: Beer And Cheese Pairing Canceled
The Mozzarella Company's beer and cheese pairing mentioned in yesterday's Hash Over post and scheduled for this evening has been canceled in anticipation of tonight's Chicago-like weather forecast.
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December 29, 2008
The Deep End: Dallas Fed's Bleak Texas Manufacturing Survey
Moments ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey -- a snapshot look at what folks are making, ordering and selling -- and it's not looking good, not surprisingly. As in:Texas factory activity deteriorated further in December, according to busine ... More >>
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November 24, 2008
Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down, Even if Dallas Fed Survey Does
Dallas Fed prez Richard Fisher This morning, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas -- those bloodsuckers! -- released the latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. In a word: Oy. In two: "Plunged sharply." Or, as the Associated Press puts it: "Texas manufacturers are painti ... More >>
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November 19, 2008
Podesta's Peeps Suggest Ways to Fix Dallas's "Dangerous Chemical Facilities"
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2008
EDS HP = WTF?
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
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September 19, 2008
Dalton Sherman Goes on Ellen, Gets a Computer and Printer
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
Blogs
July 10, 2008
GM's CEO Wagoner Insists GM Ain't Going Nowhere. But Where's the Beat?
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2008
Go, Longhorns! (W.T. White Longhorns, That Is.)
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2008
What Ross Perot's Thousand-Dollar Investment Has Yielded
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2007
Dallas-Based Dean Foods Isn't Making the Cheddar Like It Expected
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2007
Dale Jr. Coming to Dallas Wednesday -- Can a Fig Newton Windshield Be Far Behind?
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2007
Expect a Marlboro Snus Infection
The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and c ... More >>
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May 3, 2007
Park City Thrifty
HPHS throws a garage sale for charity
Blogs
March 16, 2007
Sam Coats' Concrete Problem
HPHS throws a garage sale for charity
Blogs
February 19, 2007
Whole Bull?
HPHS throws a garage sale for charity
News
October 26, 2006
Corndoggle
Dallas Is Banking On Ethanol, But Is It The Fuel Of The Future Or A Barrel Of Pork?
Blogs
July 27, 2006
Concrete: In the Bad-Air Mix
Dallas Is Banking On Ethanol, But Is It The Fuel Of The Future Or A Barrel Of Pork?
Blogs
April 7, 2006
From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk
Dallas Is Banking On Ethanol, But Is It The Fuel Of The Future Or A Barrel Of Pork?
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October 14, 2004
Best Reason to Book It to Denton
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September 25, 2003
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September 26, 2002
Best Place To Get Real Mozzarella
The Mozzarella Company
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September 26, 2002
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Dining
April 5, 2001
Label-ese
Can't find your favorite alcohol? Blame bureaucracy.
Dining
November 23, 2000
Her Whey
Paula Lambert parlays a love of cheese into fame and life among the jet set
News
February 10, 2000
Fooling with Mother Nature
Plano-based Frito-Lay finds it's better to be safe than sorry with genetically modified foods
Calendar
August 12, 1999
Toy boys
The great Furby hunt begins
News
June 24, 1999
Put your ears on
Disney hopes its upstart kids radio network will be more than just a Mickey Mouse effort
News
September 17, 1998
Smoke-filled room
When Dan Morales brokered Texas' $17.3 billion tobacco settlement, he blew away Governor Bush. He also made sure his friends got a few puffs.
News
February 19, 1998
Our Man in Saipan
Dick Armey thinks he's found a free-market paradise in the Marianas Islands, a U.S. territory where the workers never complain, the factories never quit, and wages are so low, even welfare mothers can hire a Filipino maid
Dining
November 28, 1996
Hot Dish
Dick Armey thinks he's found a free-market paradise in the Marianas Islands, a U.S. territory where the workers never complain, the factories never quit, and wages are so low, even welfare mothers can hire a Filipino maid
Dining
September 12, 1996
Hot Dish
Dick Armey thinks he's found a free-market paradise in the Marianas Islands, a U.S. territory where the workers never complain, the factories never quit, and wages are so low, even welfare mothers can hire a Filipino maid
Dining
November 17, 1994
Hot Dish
Dick Armey thinks he's found a free-market paradise in the Marianas Islands, a U.S. territory where the workers never complain, the factories never quit, and wages are so low, even welfare mothers can hire a Filipino maid
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