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El Monte soda tax faces strong backlash [Google+ hangout]
L.A. NOWTimes reporter Sam Allen will join city editor Shelby Grad at 4 p.m. in a Google+ hangout to discuss the El Monte soda tax measure on the November ballot. The measure calls for a one-cent tax on each ounce of...... -
Starbucks pushes hard into tea with $620-million Teavana buy
Starbucks Coffee Co. will buy Teavana Holdings Inc. for $620 million in cash as the coffee giant powers deeper into the tea market. The $15.50-a-share price is lower than the $17 a share at which Teavana was priced for its public debut last July. The...
Tags: Global Expansion, Starbucks Corp., Howard D. Schultz
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The sugar battle: Cereal companies cut sweets; soda industry sues
The food and beverage industry has made some major moves in recent days in the struggle over super-sweet products. Major cereal-makers Nestle and General Mills pledged to cut sugar and salt content in children's breakfast cereals abroad, while soda and...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Sales, General Mills Incorporated, New York City Council, Starbucks Corp.
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Cash-strapped El Monte seeks tax on sugary drinks
L.A. NOWFaced with a crippling combination of low revenue, high labor costs and declining funding from the state, El Monte is moving to declare a fiscal emergency and seek a tax on all sugary beverages sold within the city. The moves...... -
Food FYI: Islamic butcher shop embraced by East L.A.
Daily DishFood FYI: Islamic butcher shop embraced by East L.A.... -
New Yorkers turn out to argue against, and for, sugary soda limit
NEW YORK -- It’s not often that a Twinkie earns a bit of praise from a nutrition expert, or that a hefty elected official confesses his food vices before a room packed with spectators and the media. But nothing was routine as New York’s Board...
Tags: Judy Collins, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Nutrition, Foods and Beverages
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Soda taxes lose big in California
L.A. NOWBeverage industry forces flexed their political muscle once again Tuesday, dealing crushing defeats to two different sugary drink tax measures in the Golden State. In the San Gabriel Valley city of El Monte, nearly 77% of voters rejected a proposal...... -
Soda taxes rejected in two California cities
L.A. NOWVoters sharply rejected sugary-drinks tax measures in two California cities. In El Monte, 76.8% of voters rejected the tax. The measure would have charged a one-cent tax for every ounce of sugary drink sold within the San Gabriel Valley city....... -
China: A domestic wine industry starts to take root
A few months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I read a blog post by an Atlantic Monthly correspondent about Chinese wine.
Chinese what?
I grew up outside New York City, where I ate hundreds of pounds of lo mein and pork-fried rice but didn't see, taste...Tags: Food Industry, Consumer Goods Industries, Tourism and Leisure, Rem Koolhaas, Peace Corps
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Food & drink fail: Belvedere rape ad, Rihanna burger, Kraft gaffe
There were some questionable decisions made in the food and beverage industry last week and their consequences are still being felt Monday. Belvedere Vodka posted an ad that horrified customers with an implied rape scene while a Georgia steakhouse based a...
Tags: Rihanna, Economy, Business and Finance, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Foods and Beverages, Chris Brown
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The next DIY frontier: roasting coffee beans at home
Los Angeles TimesFour students are standing over a hot stove in the creamery of the Institute of Domestic Technology on a late-October Sunday at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena. Each one is manning a hand-cranked Whirley-Pop popcorn popper filled not with popcorn but...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Popcorn, Economy, Business and Finance, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Zane Grey
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Mad cow reemergence may hamper California's beef, dairy industries
The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy hasn&...
Tags: Food Industry, Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings, Consumer Goods Industries
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