I remember ‘guesting’ as a media ‘greeter’ at a McHappy Day event here in Ottawa just a cou-ple of years after arriving in town to work at ‘the Capital’s leading radio news voice’. A spe-cial feeling pervades McDonald’s on McHappy Day that’s impossible to describe…Read More →
Ah, Oui! Zee Spring flowers! Zee sidewalk cafés-espressos! Zee fresh-baked baguettes! Et – Mon dieu! – zee post-prandial poots… But a French inventor claims to have created what folks have craved for millennia: a pill that makes poots smell like chocolate!Read More →
Remember – all those years ago – when the Fab Food Blog took you on virtual expeditions to dozens of countries around the world to explore their unique national foods? It’s time to update our look at amazing, often over-looked street foods from exotic locales…Read More →
We periodically hear about high Arsenic levels in rice; particularly, in rice-based baby foods. Now there’s an alert about toxic heavy metals in all types and brands of regular, straight-up store-bought dry rice sold in the US, as tested recently by a national food safety watchdog…Read More →
Trump’s US Health and Human Services Czar recently announced a ban on Red Dye No. 3, a widely used commercial food colourant. At that time, RFK Jr. said he intends to ban all petroleum-based food dyes by 2027. But In-N-Out isn’t waiting to be told…Read More →
Nutella brand owner Ferrero has big plans for its flagship spread. And the first car in a whole North America-targeted train of Peanut-based innovations is about to leave the station. Lo and behold the emergence of new Nutella Peanut!Read More →
It’s been a perennial, generation-spanning default treat for… generations. Now, Caramel is coming back around on the big, historic-scale, limited-time menu rotation in a dance embrace with the emerging ‘newstalgia’ trend…Read More →
Lots of variety in the Mains, Desserts & Snacks categories this week. A break from the Value Wars – just a lone, single BOGO deal showing up. But you get a breakfast visit from Ryan Reynolds. And level-up your S’Mores game. What more could you ask for?Read More →