If you thought the increases in chocolate prices over the past couple of years were harsh, brace yourself for another jolt in the next year or two. Widespread droughts in Ivory Coast and Indonesia – major producers of Cocoa – has caused major crop losses which will lead to severe shortages…Read More →
We’ve been following the recently-shaky fortunes of McDonald’s in the face of aggressive competition from other fast food sector players. We recently reported that the All-Day Breakfast has gone over big and a plan to update ‘Value’ menu choices is testing well in the U.S.Read More →
A post I ran across in Yahoo! News recounts a tale of woe that’s affecting many Brits these days;. Seems there’s a minor epidemic of the runs over ‘ome which has been traced back to poor storage and reckless reheating of leftover food. It’s a good opportunity to talk about food poisoning…Read More →
A consortium of wildlife watchdogs and seafood producers recently commissioned an independent survey to determine the state of the Northern Black Cod stocks of Newfoundland and the findings surprised everybody involved. At seems that the Cod are coming back nicely, after almost being wiped out by overfishing… Good, old-fashioned traditionalRead More →
We’ve been all in a flutter, here in Canada this week, over the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth. She’s doing better at 90 than my mom was (she’s now a mere half a year away from 92!) and she still loves her sweets. Her Official Chef has shared his recipe for her favourite Chocolate Cake!Read More →
“How dare they?” shout Big Mac fans. Change the most well-known (if not most-loved loved) fast food burger in the known universe? In the end it turns out McDonald’s is playing with tweaks in size and price for the Big Mac in response to sagging sales, rising costs and changing customer preferences…Read More →
Soft Drink giant Coca Cola is embarking – carefully – on a tweak of its labeling to bring the various members of its flagship brand family closer to each other. It’s not the first time the company has fiddled with its look or its flavour, and lessons learned in the past are coming into play…Read More →
“You Can’t Make Coffee Without Clean Water.” That’s the slogan that headlined Coffee Week in the UK earlier this month. It’s actually a fund-raiser to support clean water projects for communities in the developing world. It’s a worthy cause. Should we be celebrating Coffee Week here, too?Read More →