by Peter Pham
News from the world of food and wine that you might have missed this week.
- New cookbooks scheduled for Fall release.
- Here are nine affordable wines that go well with burgers on Labor Day.
- Store brands can be better than name brands according to consumer reports.
- For you wine investors out there, Burgundy is beginning to rival Bordeaux in Asian markets.
- 24 useful kitchen tips from Serious Eats.
- We’ve been hearing about overuse of antibiotics for farm animals for years. There is still no resolution of the problem.
- The plight of restaurant workers requires more attention. The fast food workers strike which has hit 60 cities is a good start. In Australia, McDonald’s pays their workers $15 per hour.
- Fast-food salads are no more healthy than the burgers.
- Weird. If you love bacon, Ford is selling bacon-like vinyl strips to decorate the Ford Fiesta.
- The refrigerator of the future, according to GE designers.
- Bon Appetite’s 25 food trends for 2013.
- Is Filipino food the next great food trend?
- A compendium of the best food stories from the Onion which is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary.
- Japan invents an in-car rice cooker for people on the go. I thought Americans led the most frantic lives.
