A new, original term has been coined by Canada’s leading expert in the food supply chain and food economy, Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AFAL) director, Sylvain Charlebois. ‘Shelflation’ is what he calls a new phenomenon in which foods spoil on the shelves…Read More →
You’d expect me to be digitally visiting somewhere exotic like Beijing (in honour of the Paralympics) today. But that’s for next week. This week we’re staying much closer to home, with a survey of California’s street food Classics – a mix of Tex-Mex and L.A. Modern cuisines…Read More →
Like a sudden whiteout in early spring, the flurry of Easter and St. Patrick’s Day ‘special’ announcements came and went largely in a single week. Now it’s back to the usual procession of Fast Food specials and crossover product partnerships and loyalty card promotions…Read More →
Here in Canada we have a weekly TV ‘family drama’ called Heartland. That’s the name of a cattle and horse ranch in the Alberta foothills, where a dysfunctional extended family gets into all kinds of fixes. And in one episode recently, an old Rodeo rider mentioned ‘cowboy coffee’…Read More →
You can expect to see and hear a lot over the next few days about fighting food waste to help save the environment. It’s the first annual Food Waste Action Week (FWAW), an initiative of the National Zero Waste Council. The message is, food waste is a major contributor to global warming…Read More →
We’ve read many learned studies over the years – decades – about the claimed dangers and benefits of alcohol. A few years back, they just about balanced each other out in the context of ‘social drinking’. But a new research report actually quantifies the physical damage booze does to your brain…Read More →