Most of the major Fast Food chains are now offering, or test marketing, Vegetarian or Vegan Meat substitutes on their Burger menus. It’s the latest effort to appeal to a broader market. Now, Tim Horton’s has joined the fray, testing a selection of Beyond Meat Sausage menu items…Read More →
It’s a culinary convention – not unsupported by science – that ‘as much as 70 percent of the sensation of tasting involves savouring the aromas of your food’. Now, scientists have discovered that the same kind of receptors that pick up aromas in your nose are also present on your tongue.Read More →
No one ever did a study on the impact that cartoon character Popeye the Sailor’s constant assertion about eating his Spinach had on the kids who watched him, but researchers now say new studies reveal that kids are more likely to try ‘healthy’ foods that are explained in their terms…Read More →
What do you do to honour your Mom on Mother’s Day? I like to take her to her favourite places, help her do her favourite things (she’s 94 and needs a little help) and feed her her favourite foods. That last one, about food, can be both the most rewarding and the hardest one to pull off…Read More →
It’s nearly the middle of May, already, and we’re still getting overnight frost warnings in the weather forecast, not to mention snow not too far to the north of us, here in Canada’s Capital. But that’s not dampening the Fast Food players’ enthusiasm for transitioning their menus to Summer Mode…Read More →
National Shrimp Day – everything has a ‘Day’, now-a-days – is upon us, and it’s a great time to fire up your backyard BBQ and celebrate with some tropically-themes skewers, or some butterflied Jumbos. Or, you can simply defrost a party Shrimp Ring and eat it in front of your fave TV show…Read More →