…Or, at least, give you a much-needed leg up in the world. That’s the premise behind a number of notable restaurant and food service projects that are changing the lives of ex-cons, recovering drug addicts and under-privileged folks. Here are just a few of the success stories…Read More →
Remember a while back when we told you that Starbucks was looking at expanding its brand to include Wine and Beer service? That it was being tried first in the U.S.and, maybe, it would be trued here? Well, they start selling wine and beer in a few selected Toronto outlets tomorrow…Read More →
The corporation that owns and operates Swiss Chalet Rotisserie Chicken restaurants has bought the Quebec-based St. Hubert Rotisserie Chicken restaurant chain for just over half a billion dollars. But the Ontario-based takeover has a lot of Quebec nationalists up in arms…Read More →
BPA – formally, Bisphenol A – has been condemned by healthy eating activists and some medical authorities as a carcinogen. However, the jury is still out on just how much it takes to trigger a tumor. A new study reveals that we get what sounds like a lot of exposure to BPA from food cans…Read More →
You gotta have Bees. Hives and hives and hives of Bees. Otherwise, at least a third of all your food crops don’t get pollinated and there’s a massive crop failure. And that’s a good way to trigger severe food shortages which, in turn, will trigger dramatic food price increases. Read More →
I know this seems counter-intuitive, but, when a whole hockey shift of Yale doctors says so, it bears further consideration. A new report on a study of people who skip breakfast suggests that it’s worse to skip the first meal of the day than it is to have a second breakfast at Coffee time!Read More →
Fast food player A&W Canada has announced it will offer French’s Ketchup and Mustard exclusively, at its Canadian burger outlets. Another victory for All-Canadian Ketchup! The announcement this morning came just a week after the big kerfuffle over Loblaw’s ‘de-listing’ of French’s Ketchup.Read More →
This is just to be sure you’ve seen the news… A Facebook post about eating Avocado Pits got more than 25 million views this past week but, if you’re one of the folks who took the post at its word, listen up! The California Avocado Growers Association warns against taking them internally…Read More →