AP – Del Monte Foods Co. said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter profit edged up 1.4 percent, but revenue softened on weakness in the consumer business and the company trimmed its expectations for revenue growth this year.
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Del Monte 1Q profit edges up, but revenue slips
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AP – Hormel Foods Corp., the maker of Spam and Dinty Moore meat products, said revenue rose 10 percent in the third quarter. Here’s a closer look at results.
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Glance: A look at Hormel’s revenue by category
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NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Sanjiv Mehta, the new owner and CEO of The East India Company. He opened a London shop to sell fine foods on Sunday, the anniversary of India’s independence from England. The company of the same name was first established in 1600 to trade items from the East, and became a powerful force with its own army, navy and treasury. It was dissolved more than 200 years later into a tiny coffee and tea business. Mehta bought it, calling it the world’s first multinational company.
AP – Here’s a look at meat producer Tyson Foods Inc.’s third quarter by business unit:
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A look at Tyson’s 3Q performance by unit
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The “cloning” scandal has dominated headlines this week amid fears that beef and milk from the offspring of cloned cows have made their way to British supermarkets. British food regulators say there is no danger to the public, but they also concede that they don’t exactly know how many cows derived from an American clone are on farms in Britain.
In Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food , software engineer Jeff Potter discusses using the hacker mindset in the kitchen, from cooking salmon in the dishwasher to a warranty-voiding experiment on his oven to get the scorching temperatures necessary for perfect pizza crust.
Once humans started eating meat and cooking it, we got more calories and energy from our food and didn’t need to eat constantly. That allowed our brains to grow and focus on other things.
Our earliest ancestors ate a diet of raw food that required immense energy to digest. But once we started eating nutrient-rich meat, our energy-hungry brains began growing and our guts began to shrink. Cooking that food not only made it safer, but also easier to digest.
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