Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA.The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), acquired Kraft for $12.9 billion in 1988, eventually merging it with another food subsidiary, General Foods, which it had acquired in 1985. In 2000, Philip Morris acquired Nabisco and merged it with Kraft. Altria sold 280 million Kraft shares via an initial public offering in 2001, retaining an 88.1% stake. On January 31, 2007, after months of speculation, the company announced that its 88.1% stake would be spun off to Altria shareholders at the end of March 2007. Kraft is now an independent publicly held company.Kraft is headquartered in Northfield, Illinois, USA, a Chicago suburb. Kraft Foods markets many popular brands in more than 155 countries.Kraft Foods is named after James L. Kraft, who founded the original wholesale cheese business in 1903.

The winter issue of the unorthodox Christian magazine out of Canada, Geez, is titled "Taste: The Future of Food in an Urbanized World."

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whole Foods Market Inc said on Tuesday that it will aim to end the use of disposable plastic grocery bags in all of its 270 U.S., Canada, and United Kingdom stores by April 22, Earth Day. The grocer, which features natural...

In addition, when it comes to natural products that are designed to be consumed by a baby, utilizing foods and beverages that do not contain such things as hormone enhancements and the like are proving themselves more healthy all of the time.

Meg Ryan and daughter Daisy shop at Whole Foods on Christmas Eve. No sign of a case of Two Buck Chuck though! (Boy do I wish we had Whole Foods up here in Canada!) Happy New Year!

CALGARY — That quick hit of greasy food to ease the New Year's Day hangover will come with an unexpected bonus in Calgary as the city becomes the first in Canada to regulate use of artery-clogging trans fats served in restaurants.