On March 14, 2009, President Barack Obama announced the creation of the Food Safety Working Group, chaired by the Secretaries of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.  This new websites main purpose is to keep “us” the people aware of food safety.

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• Want to learn how to make your own bar ingredients. — Yumsugar

• Some think there will never be a new cupcake. — Eat Me Daily

• 21 great camping food recipes for the summer. — Sunset

• List of Street Food Vendors Using Twitter. — Serious Eats

• Want to pair a great cheeseburger with a good tasting wine? — Slashfood

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ThatsSoYummy wants to wish all of you a wonderful happy Memorial Day!  So, fire up your grill and get a cookin!

Try these yummy recipes:

• Hamburger with Double Cheddar Cheese, Grilled Vidalia Onion and Horseradish Mustard

• Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp with Chipotle Barbecue Sauce

• Sweet and Spicy Coleslaw
  
• Over the Rainbow Mac and Cheese

• Champagne Sangria

• Lemon Curd Trifle with Fresh Berries

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We here at ThatsSoYummy love all that’s cookin over at the kitchn.  With all great recipes, tips, and yummy news going on.

This week they had a yummy Strawberry-Sour Cream Scones with Brown Sugar Crumble, that would be great for breakfast or afternoon snack.

Don’t these look just scumptious!!!!

Check out what else has been going on over at the kitchn….

• Stress-Less Entertaining: Have an Open House: Having an open house is easy and doesn’t have to be stressful.

• Strawberries at the 96th Street Farmers’ Market: It’s strawberry season again and there are so many different things you can add these delicious sweets on top.

• Kitchen Cure Check-In: Setting the Table: Its the last week in the kitchen cure, and this week is all about setting the table.

• Green Cleaning: Tawashi Dish Scrubbers: Spring cleaning is almost done, do you have your scrubbers?

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Although this drink does not contain any alcohol in it, you can always add vodka or rum of choice to this splendid refreshing light drink.

Agua Fresca is most popular throughout Mexico, with the blending of fruits and water together, plus sugar and lime juice.  Perfect for the Memorial weekend around the corner.

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• Native Brazilians are being deprived of their homeland fruit, the acai berry, which Oprah made a supperfood.  —  Post Gazette

• American cookbook writer, David Lebovitz, moves to Paris. —  The Boston Globe

• Restaurants are serving Ginger Ale without the can.  —  The New York Times

• Want a nice wine to pair with your grilling recipes this weekend. —  San Francisco Chronicle

• Recipe Idea: Nabisco 100% Bran Florentine Rolled Meat Loaf. —  Miami Herald

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Starbucks has just launched its first massive marketing campaign in combining social networking. The company has put up new advertising posters in six major cities, and is challenging Twitter followers to be the first to post a photo of one on the microblogging social network. 

The marketing campaign, which started this month in newspapers and magazines, is described by the company, which generally avoids traditional advertising, as the biggest marketing effort it has undertaken.

Vice president for brand, content, and online at Starbucks Chris Bruzzo, said that “this campaign shows a level of connection to our brand that we wouldn’t have concocted on our own,” 

What do you think about Starbucks new campaign… will it work?

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YOU’LL NEVER LOOK AT DINNER THE SAME AGAIN!

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This is the tag line for the Magnolia Pictures’ new documentary, Food Inc., that is supposed to unveil our nation’s food industry. It is a way to try and change the way, We, America Eat!

It discusses food consumption today, its heavy dependence on corn, its ties to national policy, and its inevitable impact on our nation’s health.  Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. 

Based on the book Food, Inc. (and similar to The Omnivore’s Dilemma), the   premise of this film appears to very similar, discussing the country’s food system, and its focus on making food bigger, cheaper, and faster, is however making America sick.

Featured interviews with  Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) will be viewed in this documentary as well.

Food Inc., will debut in select cities June 12.

Do you think this documentary will be influential and make its needed point?

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• Spice up breakfast with Garden Pancake Molds.  —  Williams and Sonoma

• Save money at Whole Foods, sounds great! —  Better Half

• Fortune Cookie Favors, special for any occasion. —  Inchmark (via Party Perfect)

• Fast and Easy Dinner: Quinoa Salad with Scallops and Peas. —  Yumsugar

• Lavendar Sea Salt, special Ingredient. —  the kitchn

• Five Yummy well-balanced bag lunches out of one roasted chicken. —  Chow

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Hitting all shelves, in the US, on Memorial Day are Coca-Cola’s new series of coke cans to kick off the summer!

For the first time ever thesze limited edition “Coca-Cola Cans of Summer” will sport five different designs that represent summertime; including a BBQ grill, surfboard, beach ball, sunglasses and stars & stripes.   A new design will debut every few weeks through Labor Day.

I think these are adorable and plus who could really resist these summer cans… great way to celebrate Memorial weekend. 🙂
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