August 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Twenty-One Outbreaks Is a Normal Year. Ten Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty Sick From One of Them Is Not.

CDC’s August 20 update puts the iceberg lettuce Cyclospora outbreak at 10,930 illnesses, 454 hospitalizations and two deaths across seventeen states, with no new states added. Federal regulators have announced twenty-one foodborne outbreak investigations so far in 2026, against twenty-eight in all of 2025.

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Meal Plan #51

Happy Friday! Despite it being 95(!!) degrees here in Portland yesterday, I very much have fall on the mind. I used to hang on to every last drop of summer but the past few years, I’ve felt ready to see

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