While unemployment and job creation are a top priority from the White House to Main Street, there are signs that things are beginning to improve. In a survey conducted by CareerBuilder at the end of 2009, 20% of the employers surveyed said they were poised to begin hiring in 2010.
In announcing candidate [...]

Food is big business – just ask Mario Batali or Paula Deen. These chefs have parlayed their culinary talents from successful restaurants into television shows, product lines and best-selling cookbooks. However, as many chefs are discovering, the sticker price of a restaurant start-up is steep and some are finding success by going mobile.
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Are you one of the growing numbers of wine aficionados? Does the pop of a cork and a sip of a good chardonnay give you a thrill? If so, you’re not alone. We Americans are becoming a nation of wine drinkers.
During these tough economic times, affordable luxuries are performing [...]

November 10, 2009 – It’s not all hard work for students at the University of California, Berkeley.
On Sunday at the University, hundreds of amateur sushi chefs became intimate with 180 pounds of fish as they assembled a 330-foot California sushi roll. A UC Berkeley spokeswoman said that the rice-and-seaweed creation is the largest of its [...]

Do you love food? If so, you might want to turn your passion into a lucrative career as a chef, nutritionist, or many of the other career options in the culinary industry. If you feel the pull of being part of the professional food world, take a look at this video below to see what [...]

October 5, 2009 – Do you love food? Do you spend hours agonizing over your next meal or spend a considerable amount of time leafing through culinary publications and blogs?
If so, you might be familiar with the “Gourmet” and “Bon Appetit” magazines, which contain recipes, histories, and stories about the food world. The magazines, [...]

Sushi… Teriyaki chicken… Sage infused derby cheese… Dried apricots… No, this is not from a menu of a fancy restaurant; it is the new menu many airlines are now offering their coach passengers. The airlines are making these culinary changes with the hopes that passengers will want to purchase more food.
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Who doesn’t want to become a chef these days? Those guys and gals in the funny (usually) white jackets live the lives of rock stars, with their own television shows, tours of great locations in the company of famous actresses, and become ga-zillionaires with lucrative product and licensing deals. If only it were [...]