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Community dinner food safety: it’s what the volunteers do, not where they do it
Here’s a letter to the editor I just sent in response to today’s editorial in the South Coast Standard-Times. The editorial deals with the denial of a permit for the Men Who Cook fundraiser due to...
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Community dinner outbreaks and temporary events
This week’s infosheet focuses on a two recent outbreaks at community dinners and highlights some of the problems that can be associated with these events and how to control them. For more information...
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Infosheet: E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Nebraska linked to Roast Beef Dinner
This week’s iFSN infosheet is focused on community dinners, inspired by a roast beef dinner gone wrong in Nebraska. Infosheet highlights: State health officials are continuing to investigate an E. coli...
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The Journey effect; and why I don’t get invited for dinner
Amy and I don’t often get invited for dinner. I thought it was cause of my food safety geekness, but I now realize it could just be me. On Tuesday I ended the meal at some friends’ house by breaking...
View ArticleGratuitous food porn shot of the day – oven-baked salmon, asparagus spears,...
Sorenne eating dinner with mom and dad, Oct. 8, 2009.Oven-roasted salmon fillets (the farm-raised kind – more sustainable) with olive oil, lime juice, garlic and fresh thyme, corn-on-the-cob (Sorenne’s...
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New Food Safety Infosheet: 125 illnesses linked to church fundraiser
Community gatherings around food awaken nostalgic feelings of the rural past — times when an entire town would get together monthly, eat, enjoy company and work together. And also, as Rob Tauxe says in...
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Texas woman calls 911 when husband refuses to eat dinner
Continuing the decline into idiocracy, a Texas woman faces charges after calling 911 30 times over six months, most recently to complain that her husband wouldn’t eat his dinner. Last Friday, the woman...
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