Going from hobby to business savvy.
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard Life is sweet when you can turn a hobby into a successful business, and perhaps doubly so when your product tastes good with peanut butter. That's how it is for several home-based Lane County businesses that make, among other things,...

Wrap it up: our retail scene is lively, edectic and overflotving with great buys; here's a handy guide.
If Sarasota's beaches are the region's pulse points, then our shopping districts are the nerve centers of Suncoast style. Local color abounds, and you'll find it everywhere from beach boutiques to tiny hamlets of art galleries shaded by banyan trees dripping in Spanish moss. Whether you stroll along Sarasota's...

Ritz Foods International Retains TransMedia Group To Publicize Tropic's Yuca Chips As the Healthier Alternative to Potato Chips.
BOCA RATON, Fla., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Ritz Foods International, Inc. has retained The TransMedia Group to publicize Tropic's Yuca Chips as a "healthier alternative to potato chips." The snack food is kosher certified and available at Publix, Wholefoods, Wild Oats and fine gourmet specialty food stores...

The many faces of miso.
FOR MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS, PEOPLE IN Japan have been making and using miso, a fermented soybean-based paste with an exotic, savory, and salty flavor. Formerly a luxury food eaten by the wealthy and Buddhist monks, miso became an everyday staple for Japanese citizens in the 16th century....

One smart cookie: the Madison-made Pirouline's sweet success is the result of innovative production techniques.
Peter De Beukelaer likes to tinker with things. His mind races, always thinking of a better way to create, package, or ship his products. Not only does his company produce a very sophisticated cookie, but Peter himself designs the equipment that makes the cookies. And he does it all...

Easy summer pastas: freshen up a pantry staple with seasonal ingredients. (Food & Entertaining).
The comfort of a warm bowl, the scent billowing from a savory sauce, and the toothsome bite of perfectly cooked pasta-there's nothing like it. Dried pasta is simple to prepare, inexpensive, and often fortified with folic acid and other nutritious ingredients. Its shape and texture will enhance the flavors...

TransMedia Group/.
In LAMSTR1, "Ritz Foods International Retains TransMedia Group To Publicize Tropic's Yuca Chips As the Healthier Alternative to Potato Chips" moved on Monday July 23, we are advised by the company that the contact phone number, should read "561/750-9800" rather than "561/750-9880" as originally issued. The complete corrected release...

Awash in sauce.
Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard FROM ORGANIC pasta sauce, pesto and tofu pate to wacky garbanzo bean concoctions, dressings and salsas, Eugene is awash in locally owned companies that produce an unorthodox mix of sauces, dips and spreads. About 15 Eugene firms make foods with...

High-hype diet.
Byline: Edward Russo The Register-Guard Hoping to lose weight, Ann Raney of Eugene has tried a string of diets in the past 10 years. The cabbage soup diet, Weight Watchers, you name it. "At my age, you've tried everything," said Raney, 61. Now,...

Same steak--your house.
To take the steakhouse experience home, you need a few essentials: great meat, a hot fire, and some stellar sauces. We provide the recipes, and you can supply the heat. It's the meat that is hardest to come by; the flavorful, dry-aged, prime steak that restaurants offer is just...