Prior to the tomato-linked salmonella outbreak, food-related illness and recalls that have affected Bay Staters in recent years include:
Beef shipped across the country, including to 112 Massachusetts schools, was recalled in February after the U.S. Department of Agriculture learned employees of Hallmark/Westland Meat in California were videotaped using a fork lift and electronic prod to [...]

In a pristine kitchen-cum-laboratory, deep inside Marks and Spencer’s gleaming new Paddington headquarters, Simon Allison, a senior food technologist, is sampling part of a recently launched range of organic food – a chicken and vegetable terrine.
He explains what he is looking for: “Crushed carrots in the topping, a red, livery, paté-style flavour underneath.” For texture, [...]

When we shifted house I took a fond last look at most of my summer gear and biffed a plethora of mouldery T-shirts, scuzzy sandals with ruined soles and a pair of very, very uncomfortable jandals that I kept accidentally wearing.
I did all this with the peaceful mind-set of one who knows the weather is [...]