It’s a classic case of ‘damned if you do and damned if you don’t’: Tm Horton’s is caught in a public relations vice between two different lobby groups over its decision to eliminate china cups and plates from its restaurants. How, you may ask, could such an impasse come to pass?Read More →
At last! The learned study we’ve all been waiting for! A group of British researchers has discovered that Champagne contains beneficial ingredients that could help us stay healthier, as well as happier, in a wide variety of ways. The best news since Red Wine was declared good for your heart!Read More →
Yup! It’s true! I’ve just stumbled across an in-depth post by the author of a relatively-new website titled Eat This, Not That, in which the author reveals a whole catalogue of ugly secrets the Fast Food Chains would rather you didn’t know – or at least that you’d ignore them if you did know!Read More →
Back at the beginning of the year, we gave you a hazy ‘heads up’ on McDonald’s plans to up-scale its burger offerings. McD’s corporate even staged a high-toned ‘unveiling’ of some prototype ‘premium’ Burgers complete with classy Black packaging and servers in bistro-style uniforms…Read More →
It pains me to see it…. Every year, on the garbage day after Hallowe’en, hundreds of perfectly good pumpkins set out at the curb to be taken away as trash. What a waste! Did you know that, with a little elbow grease and some spare time, you could make that Jack-O-Lantern into a year’s worth of pies? Read More →
We knew it was coming but just how long it might take for Burger leviathan McDonald’s to phase it in remained a mystery – until now. McD’s has announced its Canadian outlets will follow the example set earlier this year in the U.S. by ‘cleaning up’ its Chicken act: No more antibiotics!Read More →
Time to explore some of the myriad Asian Fruits. Fortunately, they fall into two categories as far as most Westerners are concerned: The devils you know and the devils you don’t! That’s not to say that all Asian Fruits are bitter, smelly or hard to eat. But some of them definitely are … different!Read More →
We’ve touched on the Asian tradition of pickling in our discussion about Kimchi in a previous post and it’s time to continue that talk with a look at two ubiquitous Asian ingredients that are also commonly pickled. One is the Asian Cucumber. The other is the famous, gargantuan Daikon Radish…Read More →