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Dave’s Gourmet celebrates its 20th anniversary with a $1,000 jar of pasta flavored with rare white truffles and flecks of gold.

Appreciating a meal that is made with the freshest ingredients seasoned to perfection, is well prepared and balanced and flawlessly paired with wines, is actually more than just a skill when done well-it is an art form.

Among the thousands of colorful potatoes - from yellow German Butterballs to Magic Mollys with flesh so purple it’s nearly black - is a half-row of red potatoes with yellow flesh that University of Alaska researchers believe could become popular.

The National Summit brings together more than 300 sustainability-minded chefs and food professionals from around the country for an educational and community-building conference on sustainability in restaurant and food service kitchens.

A year after the city of Seattle required residents to recycle food scraps, the results have been impressive: in 2010, the city’s contractor diverted 90,000 tons of Seattleites’ banana peels, chicken bones and weeds out of landfills.

New guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture would eliminate potatoes altogether from school breakfasts and drastically reduce the amount of potatoes served in lunches.

Northeastern states are facing a jack-o’-lantern shortage this Halloween after Hurricane Irene destroyed hundreds of pumpkin patches across the region, farmers say.

When Wendy’s decided to remake its 42-year-old hamburger, the chain agonized over every detail. A pickle chemist was consulted. Customers were quizzed on their lettuce knowledge. And executives went on a cross-country burger-eating tour.

Nestled in the heart of West Hollywood, Fruute is destined to be the next dessert shop craze selling deliciously inventive mini-tarts that are both tasty and little works of art.

After nearly disappearing from the marketplace, apple varieties that were popular decades or even centuries ago are making a resurgence. The varieties, known as antique or heirloom apples, number in the thousands.