Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say. But it can also debase a good thing, and it is definitely happening to craft beer. People have called it craftwashing, which I find unpalatable, but which is taken to mean: [B]ig brewers (>6 million barrels per year) taking advantage of the increasing sales of craft…
George Weston created Garfield Weston, who created Allied Bakeries to improve British bread by selling more Canadian wheat. Then came the Chorleywood Bread Process.
I'm tickled by the news that big industrial food-smoking concerns are worried enough about the carcinogens in smoke to do something about it. That something is a filter based on zeolites, present in car exhaust systems to reduce harmful pollutants. It's early days yet, but preliminary results are in: "To the tasters, the chicken made…