Summer limited-time deals blend seamlessly with Fall/Hallowe’en specials this week at Fast Food Week. Taco Bell goes Fall cleaning, Buffallo Wild Wings makes a season-long commitment to college and pro football fans, and Moutntain Dew launches a ‘mysterious’ new Flavour for Hallowe’en…Read More →
There IS such a thing as too much of a good thing. And some of us set ourselves up for just that sort of situation every year when we plant our backyard gardens. How many friends or neighbours have ever complained to you that they didn’t plant enough Zucchini, Eggplants, Tomatoes or Cucumbers?Read More →
Even as it’s nearest competition in the Veggie Protein / Fake Beef market niche, Impossible Foods, threatens to overtake Beyond Meat, Beyond literally goes the next step beyond. It’s snagged perhaps the most iconic player in the Chicken Niche – KFC – to partner on development of Veggie Chicken…Read More →
Well… We enjoyed the hottest July on record. Now, I stick my head out to pick up the paper and there’s an old, familiar hint of autumn in the air. Is this what Global Warming is going to be about? Good thing we’ve got some great Fall specials lined up from the major Fast Food Players…Read More →
A new process that creates low-Fat Butter-like spreads could have major benefits in the war against saturated Fat and the associated risks of heart disease, diabetes and cancer. But I want to know more about the process and the ingredients involved before I give what I’m calling ‘Wutter’ any kind of endorsement…Read More →
Eggs may be the single most important food in our daily diets that is most often taken for granted by most of us. We don’t question their price, worry about their availability or concern ourselves about their quality. We just reach into the fridge or the supermarket cooler and grab them…Read More →
You can be branded a racist these days for any old stray comment that might tend to tar entire cultures with a single brush. And it doesn’t matter if you made your comment 20 or 30 or 40 years ago, when the social context was totally different, and what’s ‘wrong’ now was right, or at least ‘not objectionable’…Read More →
Research has linked newly-identified brain circuitry to both the experience of stress and the desire to eat. This finding has surprised scientists, but I can personally vouch for the depressive effect of stress on appetite. And then, there’s the well-documented fact that stress makes some folks eat more…Read More →