The Fast Food new products mill is working overtime! A bumper crop of 20 items made the roster this week… Among them, a number of Value Menu unveilings, a couple of movie premiere tie-ins, and a whole slew of summer menu reveals…Read More →
Everybody in the pasta business is getting into ‘enhanced’ Mac & Cheese! The latest entrants are polemically opposite in heritage but dead-centre in the noodle market. Chef Boyardee and Buldak are both launching new ‘breakout’ products…Read More →
Soaring cocoa prices have driven chocolate products (almost?) out of the average con-sumer’s reach. And that trend has triggered a burgeoning interest in alt-coca products. And that’s why food processing giant Cargill has launched NextCoa…Read More →
One of the first commercially-concocted ‘lost culinary treasures’ that I came into contact with was Swiss Chalet’s famous dipping sauce. Of course, it wasn’t lost back then. But the Chalet has faded into the family-resto back-ground in recent years…Read More →
It’s a true Canadian Classic – but few outside the Lakehead region have ever heard of it. I refer, of course, to the legendary Persian Roll. Its history is as intriguing as its recipe. And above all, it’s the best Cinnamon Roll I’ve ever tasted…Read More →
The anti-UPF advocates are determined to make processed foods manufacturers pay for the damage they’ve done to the US populat-ion. A class action lawsuit is seeking (US)$1 billion in damages from 12 makers of UPFs for ‘tortious and unlawful conduct’…Read More →
This post will not be exactly what I’m sure you’re expecting after that headline. But it will cover the ground you expect it to trav-erse – part-and-parcel of a rant about ‘entitled’ young writers who point out the obvious to their readers…Read More →
Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) have racked up another entry in the ‘minus’ column: Science now says UPFs may be impairing attention and increasing dementia risk for middle-aged folks. And it doesn’t take much junk food to produce the effect…Read More →