Supposedly dropped food is safe for about five seconds. Is there any truth to this supposed "rule"?

I dropped a piece of chocolate the other day, and briefly wondered just how many bacteria I had added to my tasty treat. But I saw no dirt, so went ahead and popped the chocolate into my mo...

It's fair to say that frozen food has a bit of an image problem. 

One in three Britons believe it is inferior to fresh food, and 43 per cent say that nothing could persuade them to buy more frozen fare. 

Confidence in the sector was further knocked by the infamous horsem...

Just about any way you look at it, our country is facing a time of tremendous change. And from a foodservice industry standpoint, the U.S. restaurant landscape is taking on challenges on several fronts, as our population grows (causing seismic shifts in consumer preferences), droughts and unpredi...

When it started out 20 years ago, Chelsea Market aimed at providing warehousing and manufacturing facilities for small food-oriented businesses, many with retail outlets that would cater to professional and home cooks. For those of us who dabbled in the kitchen, it was paradise.

love food. Good food. What I like better than eating food is knowing my food. I want to eat intentionally: to choose the food that fuels and sustains me.

To be able to do that, I must be able to ask about the food. What pesticides have you used? Do you use integrated pest management? Is i...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife researcher Heather Johnson says the study was conducted because of increasing conflicts between bears and humans in Colorado.

It’s a wonder the human race managed to survive before the advent of a date sticker telling us when we should be eating certain foods by, but survive we did. Mostly we sniffed our food and decided whether to eat it or not. These days, around half of us go by the date label printed on the pa...

When you travel with one of the world’s best chefs, you eat way better than a tourist. You also eat way, way more. “I’m force-fed at least twice a day,” says Grant Achatz, whose Chicago restaurant, the three-Michelin-starred Alinea, is ranked ninth-best in the world by&nbs...

The behaviour of a group of Chinese tourists has been heavily criticised after a video surfaced showing them frantically using plates as shovels to gather food at a hotel buffet in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The dish of choice was prawns, with one woman taking four full plates, while othe...