Becky Bracken
Becky is a self-confessed food freak, news junkie, policy nerd and ravenous gossip hound and covers food safety and public policy for Foodista.com. Becky is a media veteran with a food specialty and has written for radio, television, print and online media. Recently, she launched her own food, news and celebrity site, FoodieGaga.com.
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May 19, 2011
First the housing market, then gas prices, now Wall Street is positioned to drive the next bubble: farmland. It's already happening. Farmland in Kansas and Nebraska has jumped 20 percent in value...
May 19, 2011
The FDA has released a report that will kill any love you might have had for canned mushrooms, ground oregano and whole bunch of other stuff you never knew was so gross. Today the FDA released...
May 18, 2011
It's the ice cream truck from hell. On Friday night a passing driver called and reported an ice cream truck weaving all over the road in Middletown Township, Pa. When police pulled the Jack...
May 18, 2011
You've heard of the Hamburglar, right? Well these guys are kinda like that, only real. And they really like chicken nuggets. Meet Lawrence Dixon and Carl Dudley Crabtree, from Florida...
May 18, 2011
Fast food is as American as a drive-thru, two-for-a-dollar apple pie. And immigrants are increasingly eating more and more fast food to try and fit in with American culture. It also helps that fast...
May 17, 2011
The Equal Opportunity Commission is suing Starbucks for firing Elsa Sallard, a dwarf who asked for a stool so she could do her job as a barista at an El Paso store. Sallard was fired after three days...
May 17, 2011
He might be a millionaire jackpot winner and drive a brand new Audi convertible, but Leroy Flick of Bay County, Mich., still uses food stamps. What's even more galling is that Flick admited to...
May 17, 2011
No matter if they're baked, whipped, mashed or fried, the USDA is proposing cutting all federal subsidies for "white potatoes" served in school breakfasts and sharply reducing subsidies...
May 17, 2011
A chemical Chinese farmers have been using to make their crops grow faster is causing watermelons to explode, turning farms into minefields. The exploding watermelons are from China's eastern...
May 16, 2011
In a new interview Jamie Oliver reveals that by his estimation kids in LA schools consume a whopping 57 tons of sugar each week and are fed something called "pink slime" an absolutely...
May 16, 2011
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. Okay, now times 25,000. That's the Mac-attack milestone Dan Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wis. is set to...
May 16, 2011
Barbecue? Sure. But souffle? George W. Bush was just hanging with his homies and long-suffering librarian Laura, eating some souffle when he got the call from President Obama about the death of Osama...
May 16, 2011
They profit off of slowly killing Americans with cheap, poisonous food. Let's face it, it's the food version of crack; addictive, cheap and readily available. Oh, and let's not forget the...
May 14, 2011
Rose & Shore Meat Co., a Vernon, Calif., company, is recalling about 15,900 pounds of deli meat that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of...
May 14, 2011
Last week the U.N. reported that one-third of all the food produced for human consumption is wasted. Is your kitchen any different? Make these three small changes to your routine and do your part to...
May 12, 2011
About 300 kids from 5 public schools in Guam became sick with food poisoning from cafeteria food. The schools are all catered by Kings restaurant, which is looking into the contamination. Kids...
May 12, 2011
Next time you're on the couch shame-eating a package of cookies while polishing off a whole bottle of Two Buck Chuck, just thank your lucky starts the eye in the sky isn't tallying every calorie-...
May 11, 2011
The UN says that about one-third of all food produced annually for humans is lost due to production and consumer waste, 1.3 billon tons each year. Not surprisingly, the losses impact those in...
May 11, 2011
Anyone that goes without access to healthy, nutritious foods throughout the year is classified by the government as "food insecure." And a shocking 17.4 million Americans earned that designation in...
May 11, 2011
Anyone who has ever reached for the "No Nitrates Added" bacon thinking they were making a healthy choice, might have gotten rooked. That's what blogger and author of Charcuterie and bacon advocate...
May 11, 2011
Hot on the heels of several states' intervening in child nutrition with Happy Meal Ordinances, an Illinois senator recently proposed denying parents of obese kids their standard $2,000 annual tax...
May 10, 2011
Just because our idea of a hot Saturday night includes watching Giada's boobs giggle while she grates cheese over a big bowl of pasta, doesn't mean we're fat. Or does it? An article from Fox News...
May 10, 2011
As flood waters rise in the Southeast U.S., it's important to review life-saving food safety guidelines and learn how we can all prepare for weather emergencies and natural disasters. No matter...
May 10, 2011
Americans are stretched to the breaking point and, for most of us, our diets have been an easy casualty. We're working longer and harder for less money. Prices on basics like food and gas are...
May 9, 2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been saying for 11 years that people over 50 should heat up all deli meats to at least 165 degrees to avoid listeria. Do you know anyone, at any age...
