Gordon Food Service ("GFS") is the largest privately held foodservice distributor in North America with sales of $5.5 billion in 2007. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, GFS has Marketplace stores in the states of Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. GFS also distributes to portions of Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Gordon Food Service was founded in 1897 by Issac Van Westenbrugge, a 23-year-old Dutch immigrant, and later taken over by his son-in-law Ben Gordon. It was started by Van Westenbrugge with only 300 dollars borrowed from his brother to start an egg and butter delivery service.

Do we have the right to know where our food comes from, how it is produced and what hormones or additives or ethical considerations surround its production? If you think so, read this article and raise your blood pressure.

A division of Dole Food Co. issued an international recall of one of its brands of bagged salad Monday after a sample taken from a store in Canada tested positive for E. coli, the company said. The product was sold in Canada and in Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and neighboring states.

Indiana University has cooked up a new degree -- a doctorate in the anthropology of food. The program, one of the few of its kind, will accept its first Ph.D. candidates this year for the 2008-09 school year.

When the Indiana State Fair decided to ban trans-fats, the new buzzword to relieve "zero net carbs" of it's diet fad duties, it didn't stop the proliferation of deep-fried foods. If anything, food vendors got more creative. Fried Snickers bars and fried twinkies were only the tip of the iceberg. This year the hot item was deep-fried Pepsi.

Thieves stole copper pipe from a freezer at the state's largest food bank, wasting nearly half a million dollars worth of food meant to help the poor, police said.