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Dishing up trash: New look for sustainable seafood
Dishing up trash: New look for sustainable seafood
Most people have only ever seen a scorpion fish in an aquarium. Unless they dine at Carolina Crossroads Restaurant in Chapel Hill, N.C., where they'll find the spiny, venomous creature on the menu. It's called trash fish dining, and it's catching on with chefs around the country searching for fresh

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McDonald's courts night owls with breakfast items
McDonald's courts night owls with breakfast items
McDonald's is taking a small step toward offering breakfast items outside of its usual breakfast hours — at least if you're a night owl. Starting this month, the fast-food chain says participating 24-hour restaurants in select locations will offer an "After Midnight" menu that includes its Egg Mc

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Brazil foodies go off beaten path in Rio's slums
Brazil foodies go off beaten path in Rio's slums
Adriana Peixoto would fit right in at the trendiest Rio de Janeiro bar with her hipster glasses and the big black tattoos on her calves. But for a weekend gossip session over beers and seafood paella, the 35-year-old audiovisual producer and her friends settled on a venue that would have been unthi

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Review: Haunting, effective revival of 'The Weir'
Review: Haunting, effective revival of 'The Weir'
Acclaimed Irish dramatist Conor McPherson ("The Shining City") showed the power and treachery of storytelling in his 1997 Olivier Award-winning classic, "The Weir." One minute it's all good-natured ribbing and laughter and local ghost stories, and the next, somebody tells a true story so painful th

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EU performs abrupt U-turn on olive oil regulation
EU performs abrupt U-turn on olive oil regulation
The EU has something important to say about its proposal to regulate olive oil on restaurant tables: Uh, never mind. Last week, the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, said that restaurants should only be allowed to serve oil to customers in non-refillable bottles with proper content la

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NJ: Bars put cheap booze in premium liquor bottles
NJ: Bars put cheap booze in premium liquor bottles
Twenty-nine bars and restaurants, nearly half of them TGI Fridays, filled premium brand liquor bottles with lower-quality booze and sold it to patrons who thought they were buying the good stuff, authorities said Wednesday. A yearlong investigation by the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Contro

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Reality TV's new stars: Small businesses
Reality TV's new stars: Small businesses
There's no business like small business. Mix the high stakes of running a small business with a dash of family drama and throw in a camera crew and you get hit reality television shows such as "Pawn Stars," ''Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" and "Duck Dynasty." Turning small business owners into stars has

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Inside Frantic Life of NYC's Fulton Fish Market
Inside Frantic Life of NYC's Fulton Fish Market
While most New Yorkers sleep, the fishmongers of the Fulton Fish Market are frantically filleting, selling and packaging seafood. Located in the South Bronx, the market is the world's second largest after Tokyo, Japan. (April 5)

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Beyonce, Jay-Z turn heads in Havana
Beyonce, Jay-Z turn heads in Havana
Beyonce and Jay-Z caused a big stir in Havana as they marked their fifth wedding anniversary Thursday. R&B's power couple was mobbed by dozens of well-wishers at the renowned restaurant La Guarida on Wednesday night, and police had to step in to keep the crowds at bay. La Guarida staffers showed Th

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AP Essay: My Cyprus, changed forever
AP Essay: My Cyprus, changed forever
Nicosia, Cyprus, 1973: Riding with my parents and two elder siblings in a taxi, the kind of large Mercedes favored in the Middle East. The driver gestures to an alley where you can just make out people behind barricades. "Turks," he spits derisively. We keep quiet. We hadn't been brought up to thin

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Move over chicken: Boston Market introduces ribs
Move over chicken: Boston Market introduces ribs
Boston Market is expanding beyond its well-known rotisserie chicken offering for a new meat: ribs. The Golden, Colo.-based chain hopes the ribs, its biggest new food launch in six years, will help bring new customers into its restaurants. "It's a new product that will appeal to a wide audience," sa

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Panera trying new pay-what-you-want experiment
Panera trying new pay-what-you-want experiment
Order a bowl of turkey chili at a St. Louis-area Panera Bread cafe and it'll cost you a penny. Or $5. Or $100. In other words, whatever you decide. Three years after launching the first of five pay-what-you-want cafes, the suburban St. Louis-based chain on Wednesday quietly began its latest charita

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Red Lobster testing 'pay at the counter' concept
Red Lobster testing 'pay at the counter' concept
Red Lobster is testing a lunch service where diners pay at the counter rather than having a waiter or waitress take their order. The concept, known in the industry as "fast-casual," comes as people increasingly move away from full-service restaurants in favor of places such as Chipotle or Panera, w

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Filipino cardinal stirs papal talk with rapid rise
Filipino cardinal stirs papal talk with rapid rise
Asia's most prominent Roman Catholic leader knows how to reach the masses: He sings on stage, preaches on TV, brings churchgoers to laughter and tears with his homilies. And he's on Facebook. But Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle's best response against the tide of secularism, clergy sex abuse

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Taco Bell fans mad after Cool Ranch tacos hiccup
Taco Bell fans mad after Cool Ranch tacos hiccup
Some Taco Bell fans are angry after they couldn't get their hands on the chain's new tacos made with Cool Ranch Doritos shells a day early. The fast-food chain had announced on Facebook this week that fans would be able to buy its highly-anticipated Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos on Wednesday, a da

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Tuna collapse fears fail to curb Japan's appetite
Tuna collapse fears fail to curb Japan's appetite
It is the king of sushi, one of the most expensive fish in the world — and dwindling so rapidly that some fear it could vanish from restaurant menus within a generation. Yet there is little alarm in Japan, the country that consumes about 80 percent of the world's bluefin tuna. Japanese fisheries

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Behind the scenes of 'Top Chef: Seattle' finale
Behind the scenes of 'Top Chef: Seattle' finale
Kristen Kish made winning the "Top Chef: Seattle" finale look easy. In reality, preparing her five-course meal on the fly as the Bravo cooking competition's judges and a crowd of diners spectated from the sidelines was a non-stop endeavor requiring several hours of preparation — and some phony si

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Darden to slow down Olive Garden openings
Darden to slow down Olive Garden openings
Darden Restaurants is pulling back on price increases and the pace of new restaurant openings for its flagship Olive Garden chain, as the company works to update its struggling brands. Darden will open about 15 new Olive Gardens annually for the next couple of years, down from the 36 per year that

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KFC launches China campaign to rebuild brand
KFC launches China campaign to rebuild brand
KFC launched a campaign Monday to rebuild its battered brand in China, promising tighter quality control after a scandal over misuse of drugs by its poultry suppliers. The company, a unit of Yum Brands Inc., promised to test meat for banned drugs, strengthen oversight of farmers and encourage them

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Nobu honored at South Beach Wine and Food Festival
Nobu honored at South Beach Wine and Food Festival
His name is drawn on the napkins and chop sticks at his more than 30 restaurants around the world, but chef and restaurateur Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa prefers to stay out of the limelight. "Normally I am the chef. Today is a tie and suit and I feel bad," he told The Associated Press, referring to h

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