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The Italian town with a boozy secret

Silvia Marchetti, CNN It’s super strong, fennel-flavored, as transparent as water — and in many households across Sardinia it’s still produced illegally. Filu ‘e ferru, or “iron wire,” is an old drink with a dangerous past and an alcohol concentration of up to 45% that knocks out even those with a high tolerance. Rosa Maria

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The Italian onions so delicious you can eat them raw

Silvia Marchetti, CNN Eating a plate of onions doesn’t usually top anyone’s food cravings or dreams there’s one succulent, niche Italian variety that might make even die-hard no-onion eaters change their minds. Each week Francesco Calabro drives his lorry from Calabria to Rome to sell premium red onions that grow along the coast around Tropea,

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How Spam became cool again

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Spam is cool. The 85-year-old canned block of meat has undergone a cultural reinvention. Hormel has sold a record amount of Spam for seven straight years, and 2022 is on pace for another such milestone. The conglomerate behind Skippy and Jennie-O turkey says it can’t make Spam fast enough and

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PCSD 25 announces Food Service Coordinator

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – Pocatello/Chubbuck School District 25 (PCSD 25) announced the selection of Heather Canfield as the Food Service Coordinator.  She is replacing Tom Wilson, who recently retired after working for PCSD 25 for 24 years and as the Food Service Coordinator for 13 years.  Canfield grew up in Logan, Utah, and moved to Pocatello

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Ancient evidence of a favorite breakfast food could help us better understand the present, researchers say

By Danya Gainor, CNN The breakfast habits of ancient Scots may not have been too different from ours, new research has found. It’s Scottish lakes that get the credit for preserving this culinary snapshot of the diets and habits of humans living thousands of years ago, revealing that they enjoyed hot-cereal-like porridge, according to a

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It’s one of India’s tastiest snacks. But there’s only one place you can sample the real thing

Shalba Sarda, CNN Indian poet Ashok Vajpeyi called Bikaner “a city where one half of the population is occupied with making bhujia and the other half eating it.” Anyone visiting this far-flung destination in northwest India’s frontier state of Rajasthan might agree. The golden and crispy fried snack, shaped like noodles, is served everywhere from

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How America turned into a nation of snackers

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Forget breakfast, lunch and dinner. People can’t get enough of the in-between. Big companies report that snack sales are soaring. Net sales of Doritos, Cheetos, Ruffles, PopCorners, Smartfood and SunChips grew by double digits in the second quarter. Retail sales of Pirate’s Booty jumped about 32% and SkinnyPop sales increased

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Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets and filet contain dairy allergen due to supplier mishap

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Chick-fil-A’s grilled nuggets and grilled filets have a dairy allergen due to an accidental contamination at its supplier, according to the company. “A supplier notified us they had unintentionally added an undeclared dairy allergen in the recipe for our Grilled Filets and Grilled Nuggets,” the company said in a statement,

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50 of the best street foods in Asia

Kate Springer, CNN Bubbling cauldrons of noodle soup, flaky flatbreads, kaleidoscopic desserts — when it comes to street food, Asia delivers big on variety and flavor. This vast region sprawls across equatorial tropics and mountain ranges, volcanic islands and frenetic megacities, so it’s no surprise that diversity abounds. Yet there are many similarities, too. With

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Why junk food stocks are surging

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business People are stressed out and exhausted. The past two and a half years, full of public health crises, recession and inflation, have been so eventful that news of a possible alien invasion barely even made a blip. Nights are sleepless and days restless, and we need an extra boost to

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One-third of the food we eat is at risk because the climate crisis is endangering butterflies and bees

By Allison Chinchar and Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologists Bee populations are declining. More than half of the bat species in the United States are in severe decline or listed as endangered. And international scientists recently announced the monarch butterfly is perilously close to extinction. What these three creatures have in common is that they are

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Velveeta is staging a comeback

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business In 2020, something incredible happened in the dairy aisle: Velveeta started flying off the shelves. Sales of the processed cheese product, which food snobs love to hate, have been in decline for years. Then the pandemic hit, and suddenly stressed-out, homebound people wanted Velveeta for their queso, fudge and extra-cheesy

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Coke’s latest bizarre flavor is here

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Coca-Cola’s latest experimental, limited-time flavor is here. It’s called … wait for it … Dreamworld. And it tastes like … dreams? “We wanted to create a dream-inspired drink that was recognizably Coca-Cola but with additional cues that bring to life the playfulness and brightness of dreams,” a company spokesperson said

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Taco Bell is bringing back Mexican Pizza

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza is finally returning to menus following a three-month absence. The chain announced the meal is returning permanently on September 15, which is earlier-than-expected because Taco Bell said it “worked quickly to restock the beloved menu item.” Mexican Pizza came back to menus after a two-year hiatus

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Sprite will no longer be sold in green bottles

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Sprite is retiring its green plastic bottles after more than 60 years. Coca-Cola said Wednesday it’s changing the packaging from green to clear plastic beginning August 1 as part of broader efforts to become more environmentally responsible. Sprite’s current plastic contains green polyethylene terephthalate (PET), an additive that can’t be

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