Starbucks has announced it’s pulling back from a recent expedition into the bakery business, closing about a hundred bakery shop locations it acquired in a takeover designed to jazz up the quality of it’s bread and pastry treats. Too much trouble to actually bake on the premises. Really?Read More →
It’s been a while since we heard from Pizza giant Pizza Hut. They had a flurry of new product reveals about a year ago, but it’s been Tim’s, Burger King and McDonald’s who have hogged the headlines in the interim. Now, The Hut is making up for lost time – and a beaten-down marketplace profile…Read More →
I expect you’ve read about it in the papers or seen it on TV. Beef prices are expected to soar as much as another 40 per cent this year and there’s nothing much we can do about it. The obvious thing would be to boycott Beef until the prices come down. But that may do more harm than good…Read More →
The local Rhubarb is on store shelves (and in every second back yard garden) in the part of the world where I live! That’s great news. We have about a month to savour this unique plant’s sweet-and-sour delights until the weather gets too warm and the stalks shoot up to blossom and go to seed…Read More →
Okay… The reason I’m posting about this is that FINALLY somebody else has come out in support of one of my favourite ways to hydrate. Although the new video on BuzzLink goes somewhat farther than I do with my heretofore secret recipe for Refreshing Fortified Water, the basic idea is the same.Read More →
It’s one of my favourite ‘seasons’ all year – and one of the shortest. Local Asparagus is starting to come in in my part of the world and I can’t wait to get it in the steamer, on the grill and roasted with herbs and butter! But there’s more to Asparagus than it’s ability to complement almost any entrée…Read More →
People usually ask you how you like your Coffee to help them fix the add-ins for you – Milk or Cream, Sugar, Cinnamon, Foam — whatever. But a new exposé by the folks at AsaspSCIENCE on YouTube suggests that when you like your Coffee may be more important to your overall enjoyment and well being…Read More →
How refreshing! A controversy about Coffee that doesn’t revolve on either the wisdom or safety of caffeine consumption, or the possible toxic effects of the beverage’s many exotic components. In fact, the questionable ingredient is not one that comes in Coffee, but one some of us add ourselves…Read More →