Homebrew students learn to customize beer flavors
PORTLAND Learning to brew your own beer in Portland, a.k.a. Beervana, would seem to be pointlessness personified. Yet 80 homebrewers and brewers-to-be spent a rainy Saturday morning doing just that in a stark warehouse warmed only by two boiling k...
 4.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 107.0 Pork loin chops with mushroom chutney
The Associated Press Matt Lee and Ted Lee like to smother their pan-fried pork loin chops in a quick mushroom chutney sweetened with prunes. The recipe, which comes from their new cookbook The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern, comes together in just...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 87.0 Recall Rebound
WASHINGTON Go figure: Food makers processed more peanuts over the past year than nearly any other time on record despite a national salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and scaring consumers away from peanut products for months. Peanu...
4.8K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 779.0 Military court to hear Abu Ghraib appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. military s highest court is scheduled to hear the appeal of a former Army dog handler convicted in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The case of former Sgt. Michael J. Smith is the first one in the scanda...
0.9K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 67.0 Make PB&J into truffles
J.M. Hirsch AP Food Editor I m no fan of deception when it comes to getting kids to eat healthy. But I m not above novelty to keep things interesting. Which is how I came up with this idea for candy-like truffles made from that all-American childhood...
2.5K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 209.0 Modern serving
COOS BAY The phrase modern grocery shopping and dining may conjure images of organic produce and conveyer-belt sushi bars. But on Wednesday afternoons at the Nancy Devereux center, it looks like volunteers refilling iced teas for homeless people, w...
4.2K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 67.0 New era of street food
LOS ANGELES Peruvian rice, steaming Greek falafels, satay dripping with peanut sauce, doughy Salvadoran pupusas, slippery Thai noodles. In much of the world, they are just on-the-go eats for the masses. But in the U.S., a growing cadre of chefs and...
10.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 107.0 Food Junkie: Snacks cut down on cravings
Sometimes, I feel like the only thing I do is eat especially at work. It is kind of weird to say that, since I am trying to watch how much I eat to lose a little weight. But it may be working out in the long run. When I start feeling a ping of hung...
1.9K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 87.0 Food fuels a fatal attraction
I hate food. OK, that isn t true. We all know that I love food; and this love is proving fatal to my weight loss plans. I have fallen off the wagon a couple of times this month. I can run down a laundry list of reasons why: Work, stress, school, ...
1.5K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 67.0 Church will recycle cans to support troops overseas
FAIRVIEW Decorated war veterans driving vintage military vehicles cruised into the parking lot at Fairview Community Church to kick-off a recycled goods drive that will raise funds for Coos County National Guardsmen. The effort will raise money to ...
2.7K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 67.0 Healthy dips for the kids
For kids, two of the most dreaded words you can utter are healthy snack. But this doesn t have to be the case if you take advantage of the magic of dipping. Kids love to dip and it s easy to turn this playing with food into a fun way to get them ea...
1.8K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 135.0 Think outside the lunch box
Are school lunches making our kids obese? I don't know a lot about school lunches because I carried my lunch to school for 12 years - so did almost every kid in my class. And the lunch I brought wasn't very healthy. For years, I made cream-cheese-and...
2.9K - Jun. 10, 2009; scored 67.0 food events
Downtown Farmer's Market continues Wednesday and Sunday The Downtown Farmer s Market will run every Wednesday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through October on Central Avenue in Coos Bay right off U.S. Highway 101. Better with bacon bake s...
2.4K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 67.0 Oregonians go to D.C. to push for food safety
PORTLAND (AP) - More than 20 people from Oregon and other states who have been affected by recent food poisonings are headed to the nation's capital to ask Congress to overhaul the country's food safety system. The delegation includes a Wilsonville b...
0.7K - Apr. 27, 2009; scored 67.0 Cold breakfast on the menu for Oregon inmates
ALBANY (AP) - Forget the oatmeal, the scrambled eggs, the pancakes, the biscuits and gravy. If you wake up behind bars in Linn County, expect a cold breakfast. There have been complaints from inmates over the budget-shrinking change in the menu, but ...
1.5K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 87.0 Autistic murder suspect burdens jailers
In a facility built for crime suspects and convicts, the music of Mary Poppins fills the air. Jail cooks have been cutting crusts from sandwiches and spreading peanut butter on celery sticks. Between their regular duties, Coos County jailers provid...
2.7K - Mar. 28, 2009; scored 67.0 Salmonella taking toll on food industry
WASHINGTON (AP) - The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry. A House subcommittee Thursday released new documents that showed how private in...
4.1K - Mar. 20, 2009; scored 195.0 Kellogg CEO pushes for food safety improvements
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken. The head of Kellogg Co., the world's largest cereal maker, planned to urge Congress today to revamp how the government polices his industry. Kello...
0.8K - Mar. 19, 2009; scored 67.0 Mickelson closing in on Tiger
DORAL, Fla. There was the hospital trip for two bags of intravenous fluids before the final round. The hot showers and baths to alleviate nighttime chills. The right-handed swing with a left-handed club to extricate his ball from shrubbery. The ups...
5.3K - Mar. 16, 2009; scored 67.0 Help arrives for peanut allergies
WASHINGTON A handful of children once severely allergic to peanuts now can munch them without worry. Scientists retrained their bodies to tolerate peanuts by feeding them tiny amounts of the very food that endangered them. Don t try this on your ow...
5.3K - Mar. 16, 2009; scored 226.0 | 
