A blog about food and cooking by Chris Norris
Food Cops & Crooked Reporting The Wall Street Journal featured a story yesterday morning about government and industry collaborating to create systems to prevent outbreaks of food born illness. The article pointed out that beef is becoming increasingly safe, citing reductions in the number of […]
Pigs & Ketchup 10/2/2007 Couldn’t resist mentioning a couple of blurbs from today’s Wall Street Journal: First, in anticipation of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing next summer, the Chinese government is establishing a special program to raise pigs specifically for Olympic athletes. While I don’t […]
Big ol’ jet airliner … I’m getting ready to travel to New York next weekend for CIA Boot Camp, and have been thinking about the mess that is called air travel in the US. Isn’t it strange that essentially no new form of transportation has […]
Krispy Kreme … More Troubles. A few months ago I mentioned that Krispy Kreme had a new strategy to move into selling ice cream, which seemed like a pretty lame idea to me. According to the Wall Street Journal today, “Great Circle Family Foods, LLC, […]
French Laundry – Part 1 The French Laundry is a famous restaurant in the California wine country (Younteville to be exact) headed by Chef Thomas Keller. The Laundry is renowned for servng only a tasting menu, many items of which consist of exactly one bite! […]
Krispy Kreme worth what?! I’ve never understood how a donut shop can be worth billions of dollars. In the 2003-2004 timeframe, Krispy Kreme had a market valuation of over $3 Billion dollars! Today, its market cap is about $500M, which is just a bit over […]