What do you do to honour your Mom on Mother’s Day? I like to take her to her favourite places, help her do her favourite things (she’s 94 and needs a little help) and feed her her favourite foods. That last one, about food, can be both the most rewarding and the hardest one to pull off…Read More →
It’s nearly the middle of May, already, and we’re still getting overnight frost warnings in the weather forecast, not to mention snow not too far to the north of us, here in Canada’s Capital. But that’s not dampening the Fast Food players’ enthusiasm for transitioning their menus to Summer Mode…Read More →
National Shrimp Day – everything has a ‘Day’, now-a-days – is upon us, and it’s a great time to fire up your backyard BBQ and celebrate with some tropically-themes skewers, or some butterflied Jumbos. Or, you can simply defrost a party Shrimp Ring and eat it in front of your fave TV show…Read More →
It’s almost impossible to pry some people – especially youngsters – away from their phone, computer and tablet screens. But now researchers at Drexel Uniersity have discovered a way to put that screen time to good use – training game players to eat less added Sugar…Read More →
I often talk about Marbling when discussing how to choose and prepare Red Meats. And often the people I’m talking to get a blank look on their faces until I explain what Marbling is and why it’s a good thing. Even then, some folks question the healthiness of Marbling in our ‘lean’ culture…Read More →
Though spring is still taking its own sweet time to arrive here in the Great White North, folks have started bringing their barbecue grills out of hibernation in preparation for summer. And one of the questions backyard grill masters ask me every season is, “How do I cook a perfect Steak?”Read More →
Groucho Marx once said, “Time flies like an arrow – fruit flies like a banana.” The joke works better if you say it out loud rather than read it off the screen. But it’s true. Another week has flown by and it’s time once again to run down our top picks from the ‘sin food’ news file…Read More →
Seems so, if a new study by researchers at Penn State University is right. Nut Oils have long been touted as healthful, but the evidence is strong that there’s something in Walnuts that naturally helps control blood pressure. Is it time to update ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’?Read More →