Mar 11th, 2010 · A producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove helped set up a sting at a hip sushi restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif. The restaurant and the chef have been charged with serving illegal and endangered whale meat.
Feb 22nd, 2010 · One of Britain's biggest food companies has applied for a patent to make a substitute for potato chips. The company says its meat chips are crunchy, high in protein; and have less calories and fat than chips made from potatoes.
Feb 4th, 2010 · In The Kind Diet, No. 5 on this week's list, actress, vegan and animal rights activist Alicia Silverstone makes the case for a meat and dairy free diet as the path to a healthy body and a healthy planet. She provides roadmaps for those looking to phase out animal products, those looking to become entirely vegan and those who want to become what she calls "superhero" vegans.
Jan 31st, 2010 · It's still illegal to import haggis from Scotland, despite reports saying otherwise. There's been a ban on this concoction of sheep meat cooked in a stomach since 1989, when mad cow disease was in the news.
Jan 18th, 2010 · The world's most expensive ham goes on sale Monday at a posh food store in London. Each Albarragena ham leg is wrapped in a special apron made by a Spanish tailor. Given the $3,000 price tag, the hams come with DNA certificates — proving the meat comes from pigs fed on wild grasses, roots and acorns who roam freely in the fields of western Spain.
Jan 7th, 2010 · Lit, a memoir of Mary Karr's painful past and path to Catholicism, returns to the list at No. 15. Jonathan Safran Foer's exploration of America's meat-dominated diet, Eating Animals, also makes a comeback at No. 11.
Nov 23rd, 2009 · The owner of O'Casey's Tavern in Midtown Manhattan will unveil on Thanksgiving what he says is the nation's first 100-proof turkey. The bird will be infused with fruit-flavored and 100-proof vodka for three days before roasting. The meat will have hints of peach, raspberry, cherry and apple. The gravy also will be laced with liquor.
Nov 10th, 2009 · Given their storied and troubled background, it came as a pleasant surprise that the members of Meat Puppets were such easygoing guys. In an acoustic session from KEXP, brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood were joined by drummer Ted Marcus, who banged on a recycling bin and a trash can.