Big Foods Big Lobby, McDonald's Around The World, The Year In Burgers & More

Thursday, December 15, 2011 The Food Companies That Spent The Most On Lobbying This Year The Farm Bill is far from the only piece of legislature that affects the food world. In fact, every year, food and beverage companies spend tens of millions of dollars trying to influence dozens of bills under consideration by the Senate and House of Representatives. These bills ranges from overhauls of elementary school nutrition program to tweaks to rules on patent protection -- and all are subject to lobbying. The Year In Burgers McDonald's Sandwiches Around The World 'Fast Food Bandit' Caught After 28 Restaurant Robberies $750 Million GMO Rice Settlement Moves Forward BLOG POSTS Daniel Klein: Prune And Perennial Plate Food Porn After watching chickens get slaughtered in Queens and vegetables grow in several boroughs, this Manhattan video is just a montage of our wonderful dinner at Prune Restaurant one evening in September. EatingWell: The Top 5 Healthy Food Stories Of 2011 It's been a big year in food news. Here's a look, in no particular order, at five of the food trends of 2011, the stories that propelled them to the top and what you can learn from them. Julie Brothers: Farm To Fork Across America: Legacy For The Essential Farm Fashionista Sean Ludden, the Artisan Farmer at Los Poblanos Inn & Organic Farm, is taking the bull by the horns and re-branding this historic farm by its roots. Literally! Suzan Colón: Recap: The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs -- Passion Challenge On Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs, the remaining chefs faced freaky chefonomics: each got $500 and two hours to make a three-course seafood menu for 20 Hamptons residents. The result would subtract not one but two chefs. Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip This startling sophisticated, fun young people's hangout, translated from Tokyo to the Sunset Strip, is a real find.

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