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‘Narcoinflation’ is pushing up the Cost of Your Avocado and lime www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | The Hidden Cost of Your Avocado
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December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Dollar stores sometimes charge significantly more than prices displayed on shelves www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
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December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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A Whole Foods provider: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Truth About Organic Milk
Cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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It's not too late to get an assist on #Thanksgivingdinner! Pittsburgh restaurants, caterers, grocers and bakers can provide sides, desserts or the whole meal. Doublecheck deadlines for ordering. www.post-gazette.com/life/food/20...
Thanksgiving to go: How to take a holiday from cooking this year
Here’s a thought: Why not give yourself a break this Thanksgiving? Instead of the stress of planning, shopping, cooking and cleaning for guests this...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Yes, Skyscraper cones will be back! But you'll have to wait till next summer #isalys #chippedchoppedham #pittsburghrestaurants
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Chipped chopped dreams delayed: Isaly’s in the Strip District to open a bit later than hoped
When I went looking for a chipped chopped ham barbecue sandwich last year as a new Pittsburgher, it was frustratingly hard to find. The classic Pittsburgh...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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American inspections of foreign food facilities — which produce everything from crawfish to cookies for the U.S. market — have plummeted to historic lows this year, a ProPublica analysis of federal data shows.

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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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A thought for your weekend: Soju party! #soju #cocktails #pittsburghfood www.post-gazette.com/life/drinks/...
Take a sip of Korean bar culture at Soju in Garfield, new cookbook
The Korean cultural tsunami continues, from music (hello, “KPop Demon Hunters”) to bakeries to craveable snack foods. Now the limelight is...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Speaking this weeked at the Pittsburgh Jewish Book fest: a scholar with a personal cookbook that speaks to his Jewish-Mexican heritage #pittsburghjewishbookfestival #mexicanfood #kosher
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Cookbook author dishes on Jewish-Mexican cuisine that is ‘kosherísimo’
When Ilan Stavans was growing up in Mexico City, he didn’t appreciate the food his family prepared. It was only after he moved a world away, and...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Cancer patients have special dietary needs, but these can include comfort and fun too. #cancernutrition #UPMCHillmanCancerCenter #integrativeoncology
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Let them eat cake: Food for cancer patients can also add joy
A healthful approach to food can be an important step in a cancer patient’s journey. But experts want to dispel fear and confusion around nutrition...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Puppet magic and an ongoing art show of ... dryer lint? #pittsburghart #lawrenceville #puppets www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-archi...
Lint comes alive in Lawrenceville
In the artwork of Brighton Heights sculptor Cheryl Capezzuti, ordinary dryer lint has found new meaning and purpose. The fluff that clogs people’s...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Upcoming events: There's a Coffee & Chocolate Festival this weekend and Milk Bank & Cookies fundraisers to help premature infants Nov. 6. #pittsburghevents #milkbank
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Milk Bank cookie fundraiser benefits area’s tiniest and most vulnerable
It’s a Pittsburgh cookie table for a cause. The third annual Milk Bank & Cookies event, which raises money for the Mid-Atlantic Mothers’...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Popular Pittsburgh restaurant #PouletBleu is reopening tomorrow after an extended pause for repairs. Head chef Graham McCollum is ready. #pittsburghrestaurants www.post-gazette.com/life/dining/...
Poulet Bleu chef returns to ‘dream job’ with Lawrenceville spot set to reopen
Poulet Bleu’s fans can experience chef Grant McCollum’s work for themselves when the Lawrenceville French bistro reopens on Oct. 21.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Fun visiting Twin Brook Dairy farm, and the father-daughter duo making it work. I also highly recommend their nutty Alpine-style Farm Girl cheese. #pafarms #dairyfarming #icecream www.post-gazette.com/life/food/20...
Cream-top milk brings rich rewards to dairy-ice cream partnership
Like apparitions from a strange sci-fi universe, giant white plastic tubes lie sprawled across farmland in Washington County. Perhaps odder than these...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Shortages, Smoothies and Fraud: The Matcha Market Cracks Under Pressure www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/d...
Shortages, Smoothies and Fraud: The Matcha Market Cracks Under Pressure
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October 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Pittsburgh is not hurting for coffee options, so three Starbucks closures is likely not life-changing for most. Time to explore a nearby local option! #coffee #Pittsburgh #Starbucks
October 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Small farms get a helping hand from state conservations grants. #alleghenycounty #conservation #familyfarm www.post-gazette.com/life/food/20...
Conservation grants provide life-changing help to farmers and surrounding communities
Things were looking grim for Lindsay McKee and Brian Wiltrout’s Good Dog Farm in West Deer before their 2½-acre operation was awarded a life-changing $85,000 state grant.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Crazy, space-alien-looking Korean corn dogs, baby-teether mochi doughnuts, authentic, fresh-brewed milk tea. Everything a teenager or once-upon-a-teenager would love.
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Korean corn dogs, boba tea, mochi doughnuts and more at new snack shop in Bellevue
Moochi & You, which opened in Bellevue in mid-August, offers a menu of pan-Asian, TikTok-famous drinks and snacks: bubble tea, milk tea, mochi doughnuts and Korean corn dogs.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Pittsburgh bar owners or bar fans! For a lineup of bars opening early for the Dublin Steelers game on Sunday, please let me know if you have early hours and/or specials. smotoyama@post-gazette.com #pittsburghbars #steelers
September 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Coffee from Yemen, one of the birthplaces of coffee, makes its way from Dearborn, Mich., to Pittsburgh, with swanky digs to boot. www.post-gazette.com/life/drinks/...
Yemeni coffee shop from the trend’s birthplace blooms in Oakland
Coffee has ancient roots in Yemen, and Yemenis fleeing the country’s ongoing civil war have brought their coffee culture with them to the U.S. Yemeni coffee shop, Shibam Coffee, recently opened in Pit...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s Resigns, Saying Company Has Been ‘Silenced’
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September 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Head to Penn Brewery tonight for Oktoberfest keg-tapping madness with the musical accompaniment of the Polkamaniacs. 6-9 pm with keg tapping at 6:30, 800 Vinial St on the North Side.
September 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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In my role as de facto flack for MSF :) Friday Sept. 12 is apparently National Milkshake Day and you can get 2 chocolate milkshakes for the price of one at Milk Shake Factories.
September 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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From 'Mormon Wives' to TikTok to a Pittsburgh restaurant near you: www.post-gazette.com/life/drinks/...
The Gen Z dirty soda craze is here
If you’re a food-and-drink TikTok consumer, a regular viewer of Hulu’s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” or a Mormon yourself,...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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412 Food Rescue, which helps keep surplus food out of landfills, is hosting a fundraiser Sat. Sept. 13 highlighting 10 dishes and 10 chefs to celebrate its 10 years. www.post-gazette.com/life/food/20...
10 chefs, 10 dishes help 412 Food Rescue celebrate a decade of fighting food waste, insecurity
412 Food Rescue is celebrating its 10th anniversary in September — Hunger Action Month — with a fundraiser called Rooted. The Sept. 13 event...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Fast-casual Cava opens in Pittsburgh to enthusiasm despite big dip in stock last week. The chain plans further expansion in the Burgh soon.
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Fast-casual Cava opens in Oakland and draws a crowd
Pittsburghers are hungry for Mediterranean chow, judging by the crowds at the opening weekend of the city’s first Cava. The fast-casual chain, with...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM