It’s a parade of mains and Snacks this week. Call it a general mid-summer refresh of ‘Amer-ica’s Fast Food Menu’. Over a dozen hallmark brands are represented. That’s a Fast Food Week record! And there’s also a heroic corps of Novelties bringing up the rear…Read More →
Remember the scandals in recent decades, about food imported from China, that were found to contain dangerous, illegal ingred-ients? Now, what may be China’s biggest national food scandal yet, involving tainted cooking oil, has surfaced…Read More →
My very own ‘home and native’ town, Ottawa, is getting not one, but two Chick-Fil-A restau-rants! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time… Would you believe 25 years? But I’m most interested in what’s on the menu, and how much it will cost…Read More →
Here we go, again. An Olympic hopeful has been banned from the Paris Games this sum-mer, after anti-doping tests detected a ban-ned substance – which the athlete unwittingly consumed in a Gatorade product labelled as ‘Safe For Sport’…Read More →
I’ve heard of this concept before. But it’s not been a mainstream ‘thing’. Until, maybe, now. Sister Erin recently spotted the compelling headline: “Study Finally Confirms Eating Celery Burns More Calories Than It Contains.” Dawn of a brave new, Dieting Day?Read More →
We’ve never reviewed military rations or survival food as a ‘fashionable trend’ in this space before. But the time has apparently come. And the ‘thing’, introduced earlier this year, is supposed to burst into full flower by this time next year…Read More →
Forget Artificial Intelligence – Some restaurant operators have hit on a new way to save mon-ey. They’re using ‘Imported Intelligence’ to staff their cash registers. And it all sounds eerily like a couple of customer service de-bacles of yesteryear…Read More →
Inulin is a naturally occurring plant substance commonly used as a dietary fibre supplement, a pre-biotic and a natural replacement for nu-tritive sweeteners. And it could also be the basis for a new way to treat or prevent allergic reactions…Read More →