Here’s something you don’t see every day: An aboriginal-themed food truck, cruising the streets of Toronto during the Pan Am Games, with the goal of introducing visitors from across the hemisphere to some real, honest-to-goodness Canadian First Nations foods.But what kind of food is that, exactly?Read More →
We’re all aware of the flood of studies and claims (some scientific and sound, some apocryphal) about ‘Junk Food’ that have burst upon the Internet in the past decade. It’s ruining our bodies and making us fat. Now, there’s new scientific evidence that Junk Food is actually making us stupider, too…Read More →
One of the most environment-friendly things you can do is re-use something – or what’s left of it – after it has served its primary purpose. One of the most creative re-use programs I’ve seen yet, in the culinary world, is an initiative by the clever young beer lovers at regrained.com…Read More →
McDonald’s has been shaking things up in the fast food sector to an unprecedented degree over the first half of this year. And they’re not done yet. Over the next year. they say they’ll close more restaurants than they open – for the first time in the burger giant’s history. The question is… Why?Read More →
First it was the Brits, who wanted to ban ads for Nutella Chocolate-Hazelnut spread from because they said the ads overstated the healthfulness of the goo. Now, it seems a French Cabinet Minister is up in arms over the environmental impact of the product. But wait a minute…Read More →
It’s been a while since we heard from Pizza giant Pizza Hut. They had a flurry of new product reveals about a year ago, but it’s been Tim’s, Burger King and McDonald’s who have hogged the headlines in the interim. Now, The Hut is making up for lost time – and a beaten-down marketplace profile…Read More →
I expect you’ve read about it in the papers or seen it on TV. Beef prices are expected to soar as much as another 40 per cent this year and there’s nothing much we can do about it. The obvious thing would be to boycott Beef until the prices come down. But that may do more harm than good…Read More →
How refreshing! A controversy about Coffee that doesn’t revolve on either the wisdom or safety of caffeine consumption, or the possible toxic effects of the beverage’s many exotic components. In fact, the questionable ingredient is not one that comes in Coffee, but one some of us add ourselves…Read More →