US pizza chain Sbarro Monday filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years as a slowdown in mall traffic weighs on sales at its fast food restaurants.
The amount of salt in foods that are processed or sold at fast food restaurants is still high despite calls by medical experts for people to cut sodium for better health, a US study said Monday.
Ezra has a new column (again!) at the Washington Post called "Gut Check", on the politics of food. I'm pretty sure that by Thanksgiving, Ezra will be the ombudsman, advertising director, editor-in-chief and yet still not able to fire Charles Krauthammer. This week's article focuses on the desire for transparency in food production, using Food, Inc. as a touch point.