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ICYMI: Oprah Winfrey becomes investor of national chain True Food Kitchen

Food news, plus an Alexandria food company moves onto Walmart shelves.

By Stefanie Gans July 13, 2018 at 9:01 am

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The alt-milk mania continues as Starbucks unveils an Iced Vanilla Bean Coconutmilk Latte this week. [Food & Wine]

In other Starbucks news, the company plans to stop using plastic straws by 2020. [NPR]

In other straw news, “Banning straws is about as important as spitting in the wind … But a lot of social psychology research says that if you get people to say yes to a small request, they are more likely to accede to more serious requests.” [Grist]

Alexandria-made True Made Foods ketchup is now sold at Walmart. [Walmart]

Oprah Winfrey becomes an investor in True Food Kitchen. There’s an outlet of the national chain at Mosaic District. [Ad Age]

The Spotify for cookbooks, ckbk, launches a Kickstarter. [Thrillist]

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