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December 21, 2008

Record-breaking potato pancake

Here's something very Southern California about Hanukkah: Trying to make a world-record setting potato pancake in a solar-paneled oven. "With the new president [of the United States] coming in, the whole thing is about the environment,"said ...

November 21, 2008

Heinz’s Top 15 Brands Grew 8.5% on an Organic Basis;Ore-Ida Steam 'n Mash Potatoes successful

Heinz Reports 5.8% Organic Sales Growth, and a 22.5% Increase in EPS to $0.87 in Second Quarter. The second Quarter highlights: Total sales growth of 3.5%, driven by organic growth of 5.8%* Organic sales of Heinz’s Top 15 brands grew 8.5%* Net inc...

November 13, 2008

US Dehy Draws Interest of Mexican Bakery Industry

The MEXIPAN Trade Show is one of the most important events for the Mexican bakery industry. As such, the United States Potato Board (USPB) recently participated in this trade show, providing information and technical materials about the use of US dehyd...

November 07, 2008

Consumer panel evaluates Ore-Ida Steam and Mash Potatoes

A consumer panel of the Florida Times Union evaluated Ore-Ida's Steam and Mash.This product is one members of the Times-Union Consumer Panel really like.They say Ore-Ida Steam n' Mash is not only easy to prepare but tastes homemade too.The frozen potat...

October 08, 2008

Potatoes from Alaska used for New Permafrost brand vodka

Alaska entrepreneur Toby Foster hopes Fields wasn't far from the mark with his theory and that vodka connoisseurs from all over will appreciate a new potato vodka blend he has created called "Permafrost - Alaskan Vodka."A lifelong commercial ...

September 16, 2008

Steam n' Mash: Ore-Ida® Takes the Hassle Out of Homemade Mashed Potatoes

Steam n' Mash from Ore-Ida makes homemade mashed potatoes easy:Thanks to a new innovation from the Ore-Ida brand, known as Steam n' Mash potatoes, one of America’s favorite comfort foods is now easy enough to make every day in just 15 minutes or less!

August 05, 2008

Lima offers tax benefits to Kettle Creations

City tax incentives are on the way for Kettle Creations, a company planning to open a $25 million food manufacturing facility in Gateway Commerce industrial park in Lima, Ohio.Kettle Creations, a new company, will manufacture 50 million pounds of mashe...

July 31, 2008

Potato vodka hitting the shelves in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania's first and only vodka distillery sits unassumingly inside one of the former Glenshaw Glass buildings along Route 8 in Shaler. Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries, the brainchild of Prentiss Orr and Barry Young, is just about ready to release...

July 31, 2008

Lima (Ohio) possible site for mashed-potato plant

Food processor Kettle Creations LLC is considering putting a mashed-potato plant in the Gateway Commerce Industrial Park here.It plans to a $21 million factory to make refrigerated mashed potatoes for sale in stores and use in restaurants. The operati...

July 25, 2008

New FSA guide advises short shelf-life for vacuum - and Modified atmosphere packed foods

A new UK food regulator guide recommends a restricted shelf-life for vacuum packed and modified atmosphere packed food products to avoid C. Botulinum growth. Although Clostridium botulinum food poisoning is very rare in the UK, its very serious natur...

July 18, 2008

Prairie spud growers enter convenience market with 'Todays Potatoes'

Two potato farms in Alberta and Saskatchewan are taking their produce directly to the heat-and-serve convenience food market. Barrich Farms of Outlook, Sask., about 90 km south of Saskatoon, and Bassano Growers at Bassano, Alta., about 140 km east o...

July 14, 2008

These spuds are for LI vodka

Two years and $2 million later, the big moment in the life of Long Island's new distillery came in March when co-owner Dan Pollicino put his pinkie into the first liquid flowing out of the still and tasted it."When we got to the heart of the run a...

June 21, 2008

Potato Products of Idaho wins innovation award

Potato Products of Idaho, a small company that makes specialty baked potato products is the recipient of Idaho TechHelp's spring 2008 Spirit of Continuous Innovation Award.Potato Products of Idaho, based in Rigby, Idaho, makes specialty products such a...

June 11, 2008

Undeclared Sulphites in certain white parisienne potatoes packed by Lanzbro Corp

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Lanzbro Corp are warning people with sensitivities to sulphites not to consume certain White Parisienne Potatoes packed by Lanzbro Corp, Mississauga, Ontario described below. The affected product does con...

June 05, 2008

Funding for Plastics from Potatoes

A consortium hoping to make plastics from Maine potatoes has received more than $650,000 to further develop the proposal.

May 16, 2008

Five million ton Canadian potatoes and how to prepare them

Five million tonnes of spuds. That's how many potatoes Canadian farmers produce each year. Most of those are processed and sliced into potato chips or frozen into french fries for fast-food joints here and around the world. But there is a multitude of...

March 18, 2008

Peruvians eat potato bread ('papapan') amid rising cost of wheat flour

Peru's military has begun eating bread made from potatoes, a native crop, to combat a rise in food prices partly fueled by the cost of loaves made from imported wheat, Defense Minister Antero Flores-Araoz said. Wheat prices have risen 35 percent in t...

March 17, 2008

Avebe's aardappeleiwit Solanic wint Franse prijs

Avebe heeft op de Franse beurs CFIA met Solanic de Innovation Award gewonnen. Het bedrijf won de prijs met de Solanic-versie Promish 204 P, een hoogwaardig eiwit dat onder meer gebruikt kan worden in vlees- en visproducten.

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