George Weston Ltd. has long been an anchor name in Canadian food production and marketing. The company is currently the largest such business in Canada. But only a few of us remember (or have done the research to find out) where Weston’s started, and can appreciate how far they’ve come…Read More →
I tripped over a BBC story this morning about how people locked down in the COVID-quarentined Chinese city of Xi’an have resorted to barter to get enough to eat. The authorities say they’re shipping food into the city and distributing it to the populace. But the people tell a different story…Read More →
It’s sneaking up on us – probably because it has a name but no sign on which to display it. And the Kitchen Hub folks like it that way. That’s because they provide ‘ghost kitchen’ facilities for conventional and delivery-only restaurants with strategically-located production facilities…Read More →
Here we are, late again, thanks to the New Year’s holiday falling on the weekend. Better late than never! The Fast Food news beat was pretty quiet in the ‘down’ week between Christmas and New Year’s, but murmurs of impending menu changes and 2021 favourites lists could still be heard…Read More →
I’ve touched on official expectations for the future in a number of recent posts. And they have generally been dark. What can we, as individuals, do to make the new year better for ourselves and those we love? Some elders of the tribe counsel a stoic philosophy: ‘Keep Calm And Carry On’…Read More →
It should come as no surprise – since nothing has changed, or is likely to change soon in the food supply chain or COVID situations – that food prices are forecast to rise sharply again in 2022. We hadn’t even gotten over how much more we were paying for food this year before the bad news landed in our laps…Read More →