HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii-based burger chain has closed a Honolulu restaurant for cleaning after a video posted to social media appeared to show a rat being cooked on the grill. Teddy’s Bigger Burgers has closed the Mapunapuna location and fired two employees who appeared in the Snapchat video. “We are horrified that a former […]
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Don’t eat the romaine lettuce
Romaine lettuce is unsafe to eat in any form, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in a broad alert in response to a new outbreak of illnesses caused by a particularly dangerous type of E. coli contamination. The CDC told consumers to throw away any romaine lettuce they may already have purchased. […]
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Street Talk: The fussy man's guide to Thanksgiving
I won’t lie to you. As far as Thanksgiving dinner guests go, you won’t find one worse than me. For one thing, I’m more fidgety than your 4-year-old. After five minutes of sitting at the boring adults’ table, I’m going to want to get up to look out the window. Or to go see what […]
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Cowbell Grill & Tap opening in former Fuel in downtown Lewiston
LEWISTON — The city is getting more Cowbell. One of the owners of the popular Cowbell Burger Bar in Biddeford is opening Cowbell Grill & Tap in the former Fuel restaurant. It will feature 25 burgers, 25 mostly Maine craft brew taps and, Alex Markakis said, a few menu items he hopes reminds people of the Fuel […]
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Lewiston-Auburn D'Angelos survive bankruptcy closings; Papa Gino's doesn't
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The company that owns the Papa Gino’s pizza parlor and D’Angelo sandwich shop chains has confirmed it has closed about 95 locations throughout New England, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and reached an agreement to sell the business. The announcement Monday by Dedham-based PGHC Holdings Inc. came a day after […]
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The Italian Bakery will get new owner
LEWISTON — For the first time since the Italian Bakery opened nearly 60 years ago, someone outside the Chiaravelotti family will own it. The popular neighborhood eatery is being sold. Brandon LeClair, a 32-year-old baker who has worked for almost 19 years for Lewiston’s also-beloved Labadie’s Bakery, will take over Jan. 1, 2019. However, he […]
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The FDA is redefining healthy food. Do pizza bagels and gum count?
NEW YORK (AP) — Pizza bagels, chewing gum and bottled water want to play a starring new role in our diets: Foods that can be called healthy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is revamping its definition of healthy to reflect our changing understanding of nutrition science. The push is fueling debate about eating habits […]
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Before you try the candy corn, read this sweet guide
The thing that is hard to grasp about candy corn-flavored candy — not candy corn, but other candy that tastes like it — is that it’s a candy defined more by its texture than its flavor. What is “candy corn flavor,” other than slightly caramelized sugar? Isn’t candy corn-flavored candy just . . . sugar-flavored […]
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Dorcas Reilly, inventor of the green bean casserole, has died at 92
It started with a call from the Associated Press and a question: What’s a good recipe for a vegetable side dish that features common pantry products? In 1955, the AP, like other newspapers and magazines of the time, was running a feature of an easy-to-make Campbell’s Soup side. The question came with a caveat: the […]
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Somali Bantu refugees serve Lewiston from a food truck
LEWISTON — The brakes are showing some wear. The steering is soft. And there’s no oven to make African cakes in. But inside Isuken Co-op, Maine’s new – and first – Somali Bantu farm-to-table food truck, the focus is on moving forward. On a gloomy Saturday afternoon in October, Ghali Farah was working the cash […]