Food

Another Juneau restaurant empire is taking form with the opening of an Italian restaurant next month in the space recently occupied by the Silverbow Bakery.

Some food companies, hoping to gain consumer trust, are disclosing more information about what is in their products, and how they were made. But how much will they be willing to reveal?

A common tradition for Americans who don’t observe Christmas – Jews and secular Chinese especially — is to patronize the two businesses that are invariably open on Dec. 25: Chinese restaurants and movie theaters.

Congress looks set to repeal requirements for country-of-origin labels on packages of meat at the grocery store. The labels declare where an animal was born, raised and slaughtered.

Two-thirds of those households have children. Half of them are in deep poverty.

First Lady Donna Walker said they were trying to do more with less this year and the cookie budget, like the state budget was down.