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Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) -- Before you reach for another healthy mouthful of Omega-3 fatty acids with fins on, bone up on what is alarming chefs and […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Food manufacturers are not thrilled about labeling their products. Full details of food content would not inform but confuse the consumer, they […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- When the South Beach Beverage Company, a unit of PepsiCo and producers of SoBe soft drinks, was in court recently with the [...]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A young student of my acquaintance at a British university (actually my elder daughter Kate, who I thought I knew intimately until […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Men considering celebrating their sweeties on Valentine's Day with a box of chocolates should be aware of the dangers they are courting [...]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- If supermarket customers play it smart, we could see the beginning of a serious courtship by retailers for our loyalty that goes […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Transition from 2004 to 2005 has not been smooth for Kraft. At the end of 2004 the company discovered a free search-engine […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Nicely timed to coincide with our efforts to make and keep New Year's resolutions, the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON LE BUGUE, France, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The town of Le Bugue, a municipality of 1,500 in France's Southwest Perigord region with a further 1,500 in the […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON SARLAT, France, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Makers of foie gras in California have an unexpected window of opportunity before they are shut down by the goose-approved legislation […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Here's a quiz for those down times over the holidays when everyone's had too much to eat to walk off their greed. […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince William -- the brother who looks like a fairy tale hero, not the carrot-topped tabloid-press bad boy -- needs more […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A select group of a dozen women has been meeting in Washington this week, one of whom may become the first woman […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Foodies reveling in the fancy foams and newfangled vinaigrettes appearing on the specialties at high-end restaurants should give thanks to soy lecithin. […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- It's not many people who have the bravery to abandon 25 years of what they wryly term "a foray" into medical health […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Who knew you could start an art collection buying off the Internet? Hillary Mendelsohn, for one. She's the keyboard tapper behind "thepurplebook," […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Almost a year to the day that Domestic Goddess Nigella Lawson produced the menu for Prime Minister Tony Blair's dinner for President […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Carole C. Baldwin may be the Smithsonian's marine biologist and author of "One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish, the Smithsonian Sustainable Seafood […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Catherine Wyler shows a flair for lateral thinking that would have made her film director father William Wyler proud. Producer of the […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- You might imagine India would be the last place to see the launch of a slow-food cafe. Founded in 1986 in response […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON LONDON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Oh, to be in England now that autumn's here, to misquote the poet. Between now and the middle of December the price […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- If you want to know anything about Sharon Stone's food enthusiasms -- "She is a very big eater, she likes good food, […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON Jose Ramon Andres was in unusual garb for a chef. Particularly one who two nights previously had won the Chef of the Year award from "Bon Appetit" […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Princess Michael of Kent is sorry her editor made her remove a particular 40 pages from her new biography, 'The Serpent and [...]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Participants in the Middle East Institute's 58th annual conference on Oct. 5 in Washington are in for an unusual treat. Not the […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The post-Labor Day blues can hit hard when those extra inches gained at the beach roll up around the waist as we […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- You may be thrilled to hear that the health police are reassessing two of the most popular items on the long list […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON Returning from France on a flight into Washington, a waft of American mass-produced foodstuffs assailed the nostrils from the concourse food court. The stench in a confined […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON PERIGUEUX, France, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- If the price of foie gras in your favorite restaurant should suddenly soar, it might be the fault of the wild […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON BOSTON, July 28 (UPI) -- UPI reporters' convention notebook ... Teresa Heinz Kerry's long-awaited speech to the Democratic convention was a success with the assembled party faithful, […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON BOSTON, July 27 (UPI) -- It may be the convention to confirm John Kerry as Democratic Party nominee for president, but it was the prospect of Hillary [...]

Byline: JULIA WATSON BOSTON, Maine, July 27 (UPI) -- When the answer to the question 'Guess who's coming to dinner?' is 'The Democratic Party National Convention,' you wonder how big [...]

Byline: JULIA WATSON PARIS, July 20 (UPI) -- Jim Haynes is a one-man embodiment of the spirit of the United Nations. The self-proclaimed peace-seeking leaders of the world could learn [...]

Byline: JULIA WATSON PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 13 (UPI) -- A peculiar sight for tourists in Prague is the number of men roving the streets in packs in unexpected items […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON PERIGUEUX, France, July 6 (UPI) -- From June until September, those summer weeks when some of us pack our bags and families into cars and head for […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON BERGERAC, France, June 22 (UPI) -- When you check through the index of the venerable wine enthusiasts' bible, "Le Guide Hachette des Vins," a number of wine-producer […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- For serious gourmets in Germany, an exceptional meal is no longer limited to remarkable food and extraordinary wine. The coffee that rounds […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- The government of Margaret Thatcher might finally be seen, after all these years, as responsible for Britain's current generation of little fatties. [...]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- Who do you suppose would pay an annual subscription of $450 for a series of ten glossy guidebooks? According to publisher Anthony […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- Do you know how much uncooked rice will yield one cup of cooked? If you are a man reading this, you may […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, May 18 (UPI) -- Striding up and down the supermarket's cereal section on several visits in search of the family's favorite breakfast box proved fruitless. It […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, May 11 (UPI) -- Americans have been beaten over the head in the media in the last few weeks over their eating habits and what's been […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- Counting calories is so last diet. These slimming days, carbohydrates are the fiends the figure-conscious are keeping tally of. When calories were […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- If there's one issue in the food world that separates Europeans and Americans, it's the labeling of foodstuffs. In Europe, beginning last […]

Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, April 20 (UPI) -- Trying to attract a larger clientele to the delights of sushi, U.S.-based Japanese chefs devised inauthentic though delicious temptations like the California […]