The Ontario government, in cooperation with the Canadian Government, is funding a new program to help connect food service workers seeking jobs with food service industry employers. Food service companies are facing a severe labour shortage just as their industry opens up again…
Time again for another roundup of new findings from the obesity research labs of the world. And it appears that some really new and innovative ideas have popped during the past 6 months or so. Maybe, in combination with other recent discoveries, these ideas will lead to a cure…
I just love those old-timey tabloid headlines! Anyway… A research team in the U.S. has figured out a way to create pasta (all shapes and sizes) like IKEA furniture, to save on packaging and shipping costs. It’s really fascinating, and I’d buy ‘flat-pack pasta’ at least once just to watch it cook into shape!
The old controversy over how the average person can’t tell an expensive wine from plonk, so why pander to the pedestrian palette, has arisen again. I’ve recently seen a few articles online debating the companion issue of ‘what makes a great wine great?’ We may never know the answers…
It’s Mother’s Day! The one day each year we sit Mom down in the easy chair with a big glass of her favourite tipple while we make supper, for a change. Or, maybe, The Colonel does. Mother’s Day is a big deal across the western world, especially if you muse on the fact that it started out as a religious observance…
With the institution of new lock-downs against the new COVID-19 variants, and relatively few of us vaccinated against the original virus as yet, it’s back to snack-bunkering in front of the TV for many of us. The snack makers know it, and they’re pumping out the sugar, salt and fat!