Illinois investor/dairy processor/politician Jim Oberweis announced late last month that he hopes to succeed retiring former House Speaker Dennis Hastert in Congress.
The Kroger Co., one of the nation’s largest retail grocery chains, has launched a new cholesterol-reducing, fat-free milk, and announced plans to go rBST-free.
The Danone International Prize for Nutrition was recently awarded in Paris to Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Marilyn M. Simpson Professor at Rockefeller University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for his outstanding research on the role of genetics and leptin, a hormone he discovered, in body weight regulation.
And the winner of Danisco USA’s 2007 Knowledge Award is…Jeremey Hinkle, a senior in food science at Kansas State University. Fiesta Braciole, a stuffed breaded beef entrée, was his winning entry.
North America’s artisan and specialty cheesemakers are getting ready to gather in a place many of them call home. The American Cheese Society will hold its 24th annual conference, Achieving Sustainability, Aug. 1 – 4 in Burlington, Vt.