Better Corn To Withstand Worse Conditions
It turns out that more Corn is grown worldwide each year than Wheat or Rice, which I thought were the leading starchy staples. Now, Aussie researchers say they’ve discovered a way to help Corn adapt and even flourish as Global Warming changes the environment…Read More →
Brit Supermarket Dumps “Best Before’ Dates
It seems the UK is in the forefront of efforts to reduce food waste, these days. We recently reported that the nation will get new laws encouraging the re-use of food that would otherwise go to the landfill. Now, a national supermarket chain is making its move to help…Read More →
Holiday Sunday Means Leftover Monday…
At my house, we always have our long weekend Feast Day meals on the Sunday, rather than the Monday, which is really the holiday. That gives us all day Monday to plan our attack on the inevitable load of leftovers we have sitting quietly, patiently, in our second, downstairs fridge…Read More →
Give Thanks For The Harvest!
It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada – always the second Monday in October. Why not the same as the U.S.? My theory is, the annual harvest comes earlier up here. And it’s a nice break, almost in perfect synch with the series of Holiday weekends that we enjoy through the summer…Read More →
Fast Food Week!
We have a wide variety of Fast Food News for you this weekend, much of which is geared to the coming Hallowe’en season. But we also have major stories from the Chicken, Sandwich and Coffee sectors, as well as a dispatch from the front lines on the latest battle in the eternal Cola Wars…Read More →
Chipotle Still Trying To Move On…
Chipotle’s is making further efforts to move on from its recent embarrassing and potentially ruinous experiences with food poisoning incidents. The chain’s CFO told MSNBC this week that – in spite of a series of false starts – the resto is, “back on its front foot”…Read More →