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Stan Richards is the mastermind behind the biggest independently owned ad agency in the nation. Weve gathered some of The Richards Groups greatest hits, as well as one that missed the mark. Here are a dozen of the best-loved advertising campaigns that came from the shop of Stan Richards, the disciplinarian mastermind behind The Richards Group, the nation’s biggest independently owned ad agency

Next time you stand in front of your closet with no idea what to wear, remember there’s an army of wannabe Anna Wintours and Rachel Zoes on Polyvore.com, ready to crank out trendy head-to-toe looks by tapping a vast database of designer apparel and accessories. Next time you stand in front of your closet with no idea what to wear, remember there’s an army of wannabe Anna Wintours and Rachel Zoes on Polyvore.com ready to offer inspiration.

With the help of a kitchen on wheels named Cookie, one of country music's biggest stars and his chef friend Rusty Hamlin are on the promotional tour of a lifetime. Dinner is served--jams come later. And the secret sauce is BBQ-flavored.

The founder of New York City's newly redesigned Le Bernardin restaurant says there's one sure way to fail: stop changing with the times. Fresh off recent honors , having taken first place in the Food and Most Popular categories in the 2012 Zagat Survey and having earned three stars in the 2012 Michelin Guide, not to mention having achieved a 25-year reign as a New York Times four-star restaurant, Le Bernardin chef and co-owner Eric Ripert could easily rest on his laurels

One in seven people in the world is malnourished. But the solution isn't producing more food

By tracking every step of the food production process, the next time people start getting sick from cantaloupes, it will be much easier to find which farms are clean, and which are responsible. Food contamination has been in the news recently, and for good reason; at this moment, people in the U.S. are still getting sick from cantaloupe tainted with listeria.

America's largest food distributor was too big for local farmers. Not anymore

Doctors believe vitamins are best absorbed through a healthy diet, but some healthy foods may lose their nutrients over time.

Building a magnetic product is never a one-shot deal.

Building a magnetic product is never a one-shot deal.

For every 10 ears of corn that are grown in the United States today, only 2 are consumed directly by humans as food.

By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday. [More]

We know what ingredients are in many of the products we buy, but often have no idea what the buildings we spend our lives in are made of. The Building Product Transparency Project is trying to change that

Taking a rare peek into what really goes into creating the fresh, local ingredients your waiter rattles off when explaining that day's specials. This summer Dan Kluger, chef at ABC Kitchen (this year's James Beard Foundation Award winner for Best New Restaurant), accompanied several food writers on a road trip to New York's Hudson Valley to tour some of the farms (and one distillery!) that supply Manhattan's hottest restaurants, including his own.

Pizza chain parlays transparency initiative and recipe makeover into a new gourmet line.