The annual St Vincent De Paul Society’s CEO Sleepout saw the heads of a number of Australia’s biggest food companies sleeping on cardboard with a mug of soup and a bread roll for dinner last...

Sainsbury’s has signed a marketing deal with Microsoft’s MSN UK brand to create a food and drinks channel on the portal. Sainsbury’s Food and Drink, which will publish food ideas and...

A press release sent out by news service PR Newswire, claiming that food company General Mills was under investigation by the US Government, has turned out to be a hoax. The release, which went out on...

A US researcher has linked a preference for salty foods to a heightened sense of taste, in a study at the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. The study asked 87 participants to rate the taste...

Dimmi, a new online service, allows restaurants to take bookings online 24 hours a day. The service provides restaurants with online electronic reservation diary software, which can be used for phone bookings...

According to AUSVEG, the price of vegetables in Australia has fallen by more than 5% in the last week AUSVEG CEO Richard Mulcahy said that wholesale vegetable prices had retreated in recent weeks, after...

New Zealand meat processor Silver Fern Farms has announced plans to close its Canterbury lamb-cutting plant and restructure operations at its Belfast facility. The moves, which could affect up to 174 jobs,...

The Feed Sydney campaign, created by OzHarvest’s Ronni Kahn and John Dee of action group Do Something, has brought diners to Sydney’s restaurants in the name of charity. The campaign, which...

Compulsory country-of-origin food labelling could become mandatory for all meat, poultry, dairy products and other single-ingredient products sold in the EU after it was accepted by the European Parliament...

Nestlé has announced plans to sue Sara Lee over alleged patent infringements of the Nespresso design by the new L’OR Espresso product. The Nespresso individual-pod coffee system, where a single...