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  • Mission Foods Will Make Direct Donation of $350,000 to Wounded Warrior Project

    IRVING, Texas (May 22, 2013) – Mission Foods and Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) announces a partnership to encourage family mealtime as a way to re-connect, strengthen bonds and facilitate the healing process for those wounded veterans re-entering civilian life. Mission Foods would like to honor the men and women of the military with a donation Read more >

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  • Leo Jimenez of Leo’s Foods in Texas 1930 – 2013 Obituary

    Leo Jimenez, 83, passed away Friday, May 17, 2013, surrounded by his family. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mount Olivet Funeral Home. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Iglesia Bautista Getsemani Church, 4755 Read more >

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  • La Tapatia 2-alarm fire doused at central Fresno tortilla factory

    A two-alarm commercial fire at La Tapatia Tortilleria in central Fresno late Sunday morning was contained quickly by Fresno firefighters, limiting the damage to less than $1,000, the Fresno Fire Department said. The fire started just before noon in an oven used to cook enchiladas, said battalion chief Charles Tobias. Factory employees and those who Read more >

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  • Tortillas in Space

    Have you ever thought about what would happen if you tried to eat a slice of bread when there is no gravity? The crumbs, instead of falling to the floor, would float everywhere, and that’s just not practical when you’re trying to conduct sophisticated experiments in physics or meteorology while orbiting Earth. The Canadian astronaut Read more >

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  • Way Better Snacks, introduces first-of-its-kind line of Simply Sprouted Tortilla Chips to Canada

    ISLANDIA, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Way Better Snacks has announced its line of simply sprouted tortilla chips is now available in Canada. Unlike many traditional snack foods, Way Better Snacks creates products that people can feel good about eating and sharing with others because they are made with simple, clean, high-quality ingredients, most of them sprouted. By being Read more >

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  • Studies Raise Questions About Potential Harm From Too Little Salt Intake

    Studies Support Population-Based Efforts to Lower Excessive Dietary Sodium Intakes, But Raise Questions About Potential Harm From Too Little Salt Intake WASHINGTON — Recent studies that examine links between sodium consumption and health outcomes support recommendations to lower sodium intake from the very high levels some Americans consume now, but evidence from these studies does Read more >

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  • Mission Foods Super Soft Tortillas Change the Way You Eat

    IRVING, Texas (May 10, 2013) – Following the launch of Mission’s Super Soft Tortillas, Mission Foods proudly announces the winners of their Super Soft Tortilla Blogger Recipe Contest. The grand-prize winner is David Dial, blogger of Spiced, for his Cinnamon Cheesecake Dessert Samosas, and the two first-prize winners are Stephanie Nuccitelli, blogger of 52 Kitchen Read more >

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  • Top Tortillas: A look at – and taste of – the best corn and flour tortillas Monterey County has to offer.

    Chart human history according to culinary milestones, and a few moments stand out. There was the introduction of cooking with fire 1.8 million years ago, crude stoves 250,000 years ago, and the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture about 12,000 years ago. One key landmark – at least for Mexican food purists like me Read more >

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  • Certified Organic Suntava Purple Corn Available in This Year’s October Harvest

    Afton, Minnesota, May 3, 2013—Suntava, Inc., developers of Suntava Purple Corn, have many reasons to crow these days. And so it is announcing to industry that its now-certified organic purple corn will be ready for purchase when this year’s October harvest is completed. The whole grains that come from this purple wonder can be used Read more >

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  • Still Got It: Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos

    Los Hermanos is really a tortilla factory, cranking out fresh, soft patties of corn and flour from its warehouse just off the Jefferson L stop in Bushwick. But in 2006, the owners wisely added a small cantina to the space, where they serve tasty, super-cheap tacos, tacquitas and quesadillas that have been described to me Read more >

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