They’ve traced the strain of E. Coli at least partially meat bought at Kroger.
The state agency has confirmed 15 E. coli cases of the same genetic strain in Michigan; 10 of those patients are hospitalized.
More than half of the Michigan patients report purchasing and consuming ground beef from Kroger Food Stores. Additional retailers and outlets may be identified.
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I just noticed that HB 6187 and 6188 passed the House on June 11. In reading the analysis for the bills, it looks to me like there has been a problem with brewpubs participating in beer festivals. The way the law is currently written, brewpubs can only sell their product to be consumed at their licensed facility.
These two bills would do two things. Allow brewpubs to sell their beer and special liscense holders to buy the beer. The bill was crafted for the Michigan Brewers Guild which holds two beer festivals a year. Over 200 beers from 30 breweries will be featured, but none from a brewpub. Read the rest of this entry »
My mom waits tables three nights a week at a very small bar/restaurant in Illinois. She also works a regular nine-to-five in an office. She makes more waitressing three nights a week than she does working forty hours in an office. That’s why this article in the LSJ is a little distrubing.
At the Corner Pub on Cincinnati’s west side, bartender Melissa Metz can count the cost of the economic hangover in the stack of bills she has at the end of a shift. Read the rest of this entry »
From the GRC Website:
For our 4th Tuesday networking night in June, GRC will be returning back to where it all began. In June of 2005, a small group of 28 people gathered at Harper’s for what would become the first-ever Grand River Connection event! On June 24, 2008, from 6pm to 8pm, GRC will be returning to Harper’s (131 Albert Avenue)for our 3rd Anniversary Event. Bring a friend and come on out and spend time with people you’ve met at previous events, and meet new people! Read the rest of this entry »
Posting is going to be light again this weekend. I’m heading to Chicago Friday to shoot the Barclay’s Churchill Cup rugby at Toyota Park in Bridgeview on Saturday. My girlfriend took the day off so we can make a long weekend out of it and get to spend some time with our parents.
We’re going to be hitting up a few places in Chicago we’ve been wanting to go. On the way home, we’re planning on hitting the White Palace Grill on Chicago’s south side. They were featured on Diner’s Drive-In’s and Dives a few months ago. We’re also planning on hitting one of my favorite dive bars in a small unicorporated part of Iroquois County called L’Erbale. They stop serving at nine and it’s an hour drive from Chicago, so who knows. I know this has nothing to do with Mid-Michigan, but I’m going to lump them in the Big Ten Tour section of the blog because both of these places (and anywhere else we go) could be hit up on the way to Champaign (Univeristy of Illinois) or Evanston (Northwestern). Plus, I just really like reviewing places 🙂
Don’t expect to see much activity here until Sunday night (doubtful) or Monday afternoon (more likely). In the mean time, don’t forget to check out the REVIEW section of the site to see where I’ve been in Mid-Michigan already
According to the FDA, Michigan tomatoes are NOT the source of the salmonella outbreak.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined that the state’s tomatoes aren’t associated with the recent outbreak of salmonella.
Michigan Department of Agriculture Director Don Koivisto said Friday the state has about 500 open-field tomato farms and 15 hydroponic or greenhouse tomato operations that focus on local distribution.
Don’t know where to get Michigan tomatoes? Yes you do. Your local farmer’s market.
I hate reality shows. Even cooking reality shows, but it is kinda cool a UM grad won this season becoming the first woman to win the reality show.
Stephanie Izard, a 31-year-old, mild-mannered chef from Chicago, beat out 15 other contestants to win the popular reality show designed to test a cook’s mettle.
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Izard’s winning strategy involved avoiding confrontations with the other cooks. “Top Chef” takes pleasure in airing spats and creating villains. This year was no exception, but Izard remained above the fray.
In a show filled with long knives and short tempers, Izard even came across as affable and humble.
“I try to avoid getting into fights,” she said. “That’s not the way I am in life. I just like to respect others and have others respect me. I wanted go in and keep focused on the food.”
Izard, a University of Michigan graduate, said she plans to open another restaurant in Chicago, one that will emphasize global flavors, seafood and pork.
Surprise! Another hit to the corn supply means higher prices at the grocery store for us. Last week’s storms have flooded fields in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana where a big chunk of the nation’s corn is grown.
“The crop is in serious trouble,” said Jim Stephens, president of Farmers National Commodities Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska, who helps manage more than 3,600 farms across the Midwest. He said corn will top $8 a bushel this year.
The weather is endangering a U.S. crop already expected by the USDA to decline from last year’s record harvest after farmers planted 8.1 percent fewer acres. Global inventories may fall to the lowest levels in 24 years by Aug. 31, the USDA said. Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t go out of my way looking for kosher meat products and after reading this story, it’s probably a good thing.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on May 12 raided Agriprocessors Inc.’s Postville, Iowa plant, arresting nearly 400 workers on immigration, identity theft and other charges. The company produces about half the country’s kosher beef and roughly 40 percent of its kosher chicken; the plant was temporarily shut by the raid, but has since reopened. The arrests were quickly followed by almost 300 plea deals by workers, most of whom were charged with using false identification.
While I somewhat feel sorry for the workers involved, (I said somewhat) I don’t feel sorry for the company. It seems like we just can’t win this summer with food price. High prices of feed and transportation and now this. This line, however, pissed me off. Read the rest of this entry »
Just stop eating tomatoes until this whole thing passes over. Do they taste that good that you’re willing to chance it?
A Kent County man looks to be the first person in Michigan to be sickened by the salmonella outbreak associated with tomatoes.
The Kent County Health Department is working with the Michigan Department of Community Health and the Michigan Department of Agriculture to find the possible sources of the nationwide outbreak.
The 46-year-old man in Kent County was not hospitalized and has recovered.
The unfortunate thing about this article is it doesn’t tell us where he got the contaminated tomato from.
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