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A bit of pink in pork appears to be OK after all. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is lowered its temperature recommendation for cooking pork to 145 degrees.

From our friends at Food52.com comes this collection of last-minute Valentine's Day dinner menus, with tips on how to successfully pull them together. For more Valentine's Day recipes, cocktails and wine recommendations, check out the related links below the menus.Get cooking!

Chinese call it "gutter oil" — a foul slop fished up from sewage drains or collected at restaurant back doors — and it's being used widely in the country's eateries.

For cancer patients, nutrition is important, but many find that they are too tired to cook, nauseated to eat or the food tastes bad.

Gourmet, a magazine of almost biblical status in the food world, and three other titles will be shuttered in a cost-cutting move.

The anti-cancer properties of carrots are more potent if the vegetable is not cut up before cooking, research shows.

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When Amit Damani daydreams about being back home in Mumbai, he thinks of warm weather and Indian vegetarian food, especially vada pav.

Whether you're the kind of coffee drinker that slugs back the swill in the break-room coffee pot at work or savors exotic coffee on sleepy Sundays, there is always room for enhancing your java.