I have a little game I play when I’m out walk-ing on garbage day. I count the empty pizza boxes in everyone’s cardboard-recycling tubs. But what happens when folks aren’t as cir-cumspect about their trash? In New York City, pizza litter and rats run rampant…Read More →
I’ll preface today’s rant with a bald assertion: The term ‘best’ is relative. Especially when dealing with a subject as personal as food. But the self-appointed experts still insist on issuing a list of ‘The World’s Best Restaurants’ every year…Read More →
That’s a great question, And one that bears long, hard thought. There’s a large and growing movement in Western Society that holds we should be emphasizing healthy eating over drugs and supplements. Major institutions have taken note…Read More →
June is the doorstep of summer. And the fast Food sphere knows it! Virtually every new menu item announcement this past week has been summer-targeted. And every other cat-egory has taken a back seat to the many-faceted Mains…Read More →
The mainstream media have exploded re-cently with stories about supermarkets short-weighting shoppers on grocery products. Investigations are under way. Meanwhile… What can you do to avoid being cheated by under-weight food packages?Read More →
Sister Erin loves sardines and I… avoid them. So, she’s decided to provide me a copy of every bit of ‘sardine’ info she can find. And some turn into posts like today’s, about what hap-pens when you eat sardines every day for a week…Read More →
Canadian troops went ashore on D-Day, 80 years ago today, with a standard battlefield food issue: the Composite, or ‘Compo’, Ration. The Compo Box became a legendary fixture at Second World War Canadian and British frontline mealtimes…Read More →
McDonald’s finds itself caught between a consumer rock and an economic hard place, these days. In the midst of high Fast Food menu prices and fan discontent, McD’s is struggling to justify its ‘better value’ claim and fighting claims of price gouging…Read More →