Each day, about 200,000 Americans are sickened by contaminated food. Every year, about 325,000 are hospitalized by a food-borne illness. And the number who are killed annually by something they ate is roughly the same as the number of Americans who’ve been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003.Read Eric Schlosser's full Op-Ed "Unsafe at Any Meal" at the NYTimes.
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Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods is a widely-known provider of organic grains, flour, and baking mixes. It operates in two locations in the Portland, Oregon, suburb of Milwaukie (yes, that’s how they spell it), distributing its products throughout North America and to Asia and the Middle East. It is privately owned, has 209 employees, revenues estimated to be between $20 million and $30 million per year, with year-over-year revenue growth of 20 to 30 percent over the past five years.
It made international news in 2009 when its steel cut oats product (one of my favorites) won the Golden Spurtle Award at the 16th Annual Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship in Scotland.
In a move reminiscent of Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills, it was announced on Tuesday that the founder, Bob Moore, is transitioning the company to an employee-owned firm through an employee stock ownership program (ESOP). - Ernest T Bass diary over at the Daily Kos
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still proudly made in the USA. NPR has a great story about the factory in Ohio.
The KitchenAid stand mixer is the tool of the trade of cooking, especially baking. At $200 and up, it's an investment in both money and counter space — and it's still being made in the U.S.
The mixers have been made in Greenville, Ohio, since 1941. At the KitchenAid Experience Center, the company's retail store in the town, every model of mixer and blender in every color can be seen.
People come to the store for cooking demonstrations; sometimes they arrive as if on a pilgrimage, walking through the front door in amazement. Downstairs there is a mixer museum, featuring, especially now that there's a movie about her, a cobalt blue K5A model that was owned, used and signed by Julia Child.
"Bon appetit," she inscribed on the bowl.
Listen to the story..HERE.
I absolutely love mine. Once you have a Kitchen Aid...you'll never have those weight lifter forearms from stirring again. It truly is a kitchen aide.
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